AIDS, Poverty Leave Ethiopians Orphan
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A staggering ten percent of Ethiopia's 46 million children are orphans whose parents died of AIDS, poverty and poor health conditions, a new report said Monday.
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Aids activist Zackie Achmat has joined the chorus of calls for TB treatment to be combined with HIV testing and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, echoing claims that it could save the lives of up to 500 000 HIV-infected Africans a year.
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Ethiopia will try to remove tens of thousands of beggars from the streets of Addis Ababa to create a more "conducive" atmosphere for coming Millennium celebrations, city officials said on Thursday.
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Exactly 20 years ago, when the world first woke up to television reports of Ethiopia's catastrophic drought, Girmay Assefa was staggering along hundreds of kilometres (miles) of road in the country's northern Tigray region searching for food with his mother, brother and two young sisters.
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Ethiopia has began giving free doses of life-prolonging drugs to about 14,000 HIV-infected Ethiopians in a U.S.-funded program, the government said Tuesday.
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Geneva - Children with HIV and Aids are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.
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TONY EASTLEY: On World AIDS Day one international charity says people in the poorest countries are being left to die from HIV because governments and corporations simply aren&#39;t providing basic treatment options readily available in western countries.
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A lack of drugs adapted to the needs of children with HIV/AIDS means that many of them are dying needlessly, says the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
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NAIROBI -- The Ethiopian government is blockading emergency food aid and choking off trade to large parts of a remote region in the eastern part of the country that is home to a rebel force, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of starvation, Western diplomats and humanitarian officials say.
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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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DURBAN, 9 November (IRIN) - With an increasing number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS seeking foster care, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is placing enormous pressure on South Africa&#39;s child welfare system.
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Johannesburg, AIDS has killed 1.7 million people in South Africa, including two children of the country&#39;s Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, reports Xinhua.
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IBADAN, Nigeria -- Allegedly abandoned in Africa by their American mother, seven children from Texas begged for coins to buy food and shuttled from a neglectful stranger&#39;s care to an orphanage, Nigerians said Thursday.
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Ethiopia's disaster response agency has appealed for 7.6 million dollars (5.8 million euros) to help hundreds of thousands of flood-affected people in the country's southeastern Somali state.
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Inside the corps of doctors trying to stem the tide of HIV among the continent's youngest patients
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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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BERAHILE, Ethiopia  - The mysterious kidnapping of five Europeans and eight locals has put the international spotlight on a remote, barren and searingly hot corner of Ethiopia left behind by the modern world.