Lacking free AIDS drugs, 18 die in Indian town
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Eighteen impoverished Indians with AIDS died in one district in western India in the last two months because the nearest state supply of free drugs is hundreds of kilometers away, an HIV advocacy group 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 coordination in the relief effort for survivors of a deadly tsunami in south India has led to an excess of supplies in some villages while others lack the most basic necessities.
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The number of people living with HIV/Aids in India is around half of previous official estimates, new figures say.
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Jonathan Mwanza was once a powerful man in this rural town &#151; a county councilor and lifetime member of Kenya's former ruling party. His hefty build spoke of wealth and authority. That was before he contracted HIV. Without access to anti-AIDS drugs, he wasted away &#151; stripped of his weight, his job, his community standing.
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A new survey finds AIDS infection rates in India are far lower than previously estimated, although the disease is worryingly concentrated in regions where business is booming
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Indian health authorities have found at least 278 blood donors to be HIV-positive in the northeast state of Tripura, fueling fears of infected blood supplies.
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The United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) report released in November 2004 indicated that there were 5.1 million people suffering from HIV/AIDS in India.
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Ten times more people in Africa are  getting life-saving AIDS drugs than just three years ago, but  still most get no treatment and the pandemic continues to  spread, the World Health Organization reported on Wednesday.
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A mystery disease has killed atleast 24 people and affected about 50 others in a village in UttarPradesh state in north India, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported Monday.
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India needs to tighten control on the sale of prescription drugs from chemist shops to stem the spread of HIV, the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on Monday.
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FRANCISTOWN, Botswana -- The young and hip at ground zero of the AIDS epidemic meet, drink and pair off under the knowing gaze of bartender Brian Khumalo. Sometimes they first buy a three-pack of condoms from the box he keeps by the liquor, sometimes not.
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new HIV drugs, while health workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
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The official death toll in India from a massive tsunami that crashed into coastal communities has reached 8,955 while 3,874 more people were missing and presumed dead, the government said.
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AIDS-aware Ugandans, who use about 250,000 condoms a day, face a shortage of the product after the government introduced new condom tests likely to cut supply over the festive season, the Health Ministry on Friday.
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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health
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The number of Indians affected by HIV/Aids may be lower than the UN estimate of 5.7 million, a study suggests.