Everybody Must Fight AIDS, Mandela Says
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, surrounded by rock stars, launched a book of photographs of a major anti-AIDS concert on Thursday with a call to ordinary people to take a lead in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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South Africa launched a revamped national AIDS plan on Wednesday as new research showed the high cost of government inaction on the epidemic -- 1,500 South Africans infected with HIV every day.
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South Africa's Nelson Mandela, one of Africa's most committed campaigners in the battle against AIDS, announced that his only surviving son had succumbed to the disease on Thursday.
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MSF said on Tuesday that taking measures to prevent aids was very important, but urged the Swiss government and Swiss non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to do more with regard to treatment.
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Global AIDS funding needs to be quadrupled to fight the epidemic's spread in the developing world, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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US President George Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids warns that the world is losing the battle against the virus.
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Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi said on November 25 that the country has entered a crucial time for AIDS prevention and urged everyone to work to stop the spread of the disease.
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AIDS-stricken Southern African  nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to  fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS  agency said on Tuesday.
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BEIJING  - The head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria praised China Tuesday for its efforts in addressing HIV/AIDS, but warned that any let up could prove catastrophic.
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There is now a wide international consensus that providing AIDS treatment to all in need of it is essential, along with prevention.
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South Africa's veteran Zulu leader Mangosutho Buthelezi, who has lost two children to AIDS, says the pandemic-blighted continent should stop sweeping the disease under the carpet.
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South Africa is overhauling its AIDS strategy in a bid to counter the rise of extreme drug resistant tuberculosis which is proving a serious threat to those suffering HIV/AIDS, a senior official said on Thursday.
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Health experts meeting in Ethiopia say combined efforts to fight the HIV virus and tuberculosis could save the lives of up to a half-million Africans every year.
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Helping women to understand their rights is crucial in the fight against HIV/AIDS, said Ashley Judd in an interview published Monday.
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The UK Chancellor Gordon Brown urges the world's rich nations to step up the fight against the Aids epidemic.
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Former President Nelson Mandela, a leading AIDS campaigner, won local and international praise Friday for disclosing that his son died of the disease still shrouded in silence and fear.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 30 -- U.N. health officials on Wednesday called on nations with severe AIDS epidemics to offer routine, confidential HIV tests to all patients at health-care facilities in hopes of dramatically expanding the number of those who know they have the virus.