AIDS Infection Rates at Crucial Stage in Many Countries
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The head of the UN AIDS program says HIV epidemics in some of the world&#39;s most populous countries are close to a turning point.
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WASHINGTON -- The global AIDS epidemic continues to expand around the world, with the numbers of those living with the virus estimated at 39.5 million and those dying in the last year at 2.9 million, according to a United Nations report released yesterday. The report also estimated 4.3 million new infections in 2006 -- roughly the same number for the ...
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned Thursday.
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Although AIDS is thought of as a disease of the young, in the United States it is rapidly becoming one of the middle-aged and even the old.
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HIV infection is rising in every region  of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and  Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the  fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Ceres P. Doyo. IT&#39;S six days before World AIDS Day, which falls on Dec. 1. This year&#39;s theme is &quot;Women and AIDS.&quot; For the past two successive years (2002 and 2003) the theme was &quot;Stigma and Discrimination
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IN six years, Singapore could see more than a thousand new cases of Aids each year. &quot;We are facing an alarming Aids epidemic in Singapore,&quot; said Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for the Ministry
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India says it will appoint private consultants to determine the number of people infected with the AIDS virus. The Indian government estimates the number at 5.1 million, the second most in the world after South Africa.
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With almost 25 million Africans  infected, 2.8 million new infections last year and 2.1 million  deaths, the statistics are as grim as ever as Africa readies  for World AIDS Day on December 1.
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The number of Russians with HIV-AIDS is probably at least three times the official figure of 300,000, according to a study by two American scholars. The study says authorities need to act aggressively with drug therapy, prevention and education to stem the spread of a disease that for now is concentrated among young people.
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With more than 1.8 million people living with HIV in Europe and Central Asia, the epidemic poses a serious threat to the region's social and economic stability, according to the Joint United Nations Programme ...
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HIV infection is rising in every region of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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December 1 is World Aids Day. Global attention is focused on women and girls with the day&#39;s theme: &quot;Women, Girls, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)&quot;.
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Seven African countries are experiencing a decline in the prevalence of HIV infection among young, urban adults, finally reaping the benefit of AIDS prevention and treatment, the United Nations said yesterday in its annual report on the global epidemic.
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EVERY day about 14,000 people contract the HIV virus worldwide - more then half of them are aged between 15 and 24. There are now thought to be about 38 million people infected with HIV, and rising.
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In 1988, when World AIDS Day began, 10 million people worldwide were living with AIDS. Today, nearly 40 million men, women and children are HIV positive.
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The annual report by UNAIDS - the United Nations organization dealing with AIDS â-nd the World Health Organization (WHO), released ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, shows a troubling rise in the prevalence of AIDS around the world.