Too many myths about kids and AIDS
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What are the most common misconceptions about children and HIV/AIDS? With World AIDS Day today, Save the Children, an independent humanitarian organization, explores five myths about HIV/AIDS and the realities of the epidemic&#39;s impact on children.
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South Africa may lose the HIV battle as infection and death rates outpace treatment, Unicef warns.
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Scientists refute a longstanding theory of how HIV slowly depletes the body's capacity to fight infection.
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The government&#39;s research on using an AIDS drug to protect African babies was so flawed that health officials had to use blood tests after the fact to confirm patients got the medicine.
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More infants die in sub-Saharan Africa now than a decade ago, largely because HIV/Aids has reversed advances in public health, the UN children&#39;s agency Unicef reports today.
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GENEVA  - Children with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
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Sixty-one children are now known to have been infected with the AIDS virus in southern Kazakhstan as a result of medical negligence, the health ministry said. Five of them have died.
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Children with AIDS are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable and adapted medicines. On World AIDS Day, December 1, MSF is calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and national governments
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While genital herpes in a  prepubertal child raises the suspicion of sexual abuse, the  current evidence is too weak to estimate the likelihood of  sexual transmission of the virus, according to a report from  the UK, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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The Bush administration is funding sexual health projects that teach children that HIV can be contracted through sweat and tears, touching genitals can result in pregnancy, and that a 43-day-old foetus is a thinking person.
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LONDON -- Organizations concerned with reproductive health and sex education sharply criticized the Bush administration yesterday, saying that its policies are contributing to the worldwide AIDS pandemic and the deaths of women during childbirth and from unsafe abortions.
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More than two thirds of the HIV cases are diagnosed in London, however this figure can be misleading.
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Despite the near universal embrace of standards for protecting childhood, a new UNICEF report shows that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, conditions that are effectively denying
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Moves to bring sex out of the closet in  largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate  between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates,  and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.
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Stories we flag this week: The NYT says sexy spam lines make people sad, too much TV can dampen sex and cultural attitudes affect HIV spread. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Science & environment: Ben Goldacre: Homeopaths would be fine, if they could just shut up about serious stuff, like Aids, or malaria, or MMR.
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One Houston woman&#39;s HIV diagnosis led to a religious epiphany. For another, news of her infection created anxiety about her unborn child.