Herpes Awareness Project Divides Health Officials
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Nearly one in two African American adults has genital herpes. Could it be you? Could it be your partner? . . . A simple blood test is the best way to know if you have it.
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CAIRO - AIDS/HIV prevention officials in the Middle East and North Africa face a careful balancing act of spreading awareness about the disease without appearing to promote immorality.
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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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Two local hospitals are taking part in a program run by the China Disease Prevention and Control Center and a US-based medical company in an effort to establish the nation&#39;s first guidelines on hand hygiene in hospitals.
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An explosive increase in the percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS in South Carolina has health officials across the T&amp;D Region scrambling for ways to enhance education and funding to tackle the problem.
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Most gay and bisexual men infected with  HIV in the United States are taking steps to reduce the chances  of passing on the deadly virus to their sex partners, according  to a federal study released on Thursday.
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A federally funded group that promised flu shots on Election Day in six of South Carolina's poorest counties has drawn criticism from Republican leaders.
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As lawmakers prepare to debate an override of the governor's order that schoolgirls be inoculated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, a group of legislators wants the state to produce a brochure about the vaccine.
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Researchers are drawing closer to creating a vaccine that would prevent certain viral infections known to cause cervical cancer, a disease that strikes about 15,000 women in the United States each year and kills 5,000, according to the Associated Press.
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Average citizens need to prepare for the influenza pandemic that public health officials have been warning is overdue, New Jersey's top health officials said Tuesday in announcing a public awareness campaign.
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Dr. Susan Blank, a senior health department official for the city, is confronting an old and new scourge in syphilis.
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Leaders of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) have stressed that as the world commits more resources to treat people infected with HIV, it must also intensify efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent new infections and stop the continuing
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AIDS viruses from two people are being studied to see if they are the source of a rare form of H.I.V. detected in a New York City man.
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Three groups of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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State and federal health authorities were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island getaway in Lake Erie.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ As the number of victims climbed, health officials and farmers on Tuesday blamed each other for the years of failure to figure out how to stop E. coli outbreaks linked to Salinas Valley lettuce and, more recently, spinach.
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More than 500,000 officials and specialists on July 26 began a survey project that aims to reach more than one million people in 18 cities and 35 counties in the Henan province of Central China to determine how many people there are HIV-positive