Survival is cold comfort in AIDS-stricken rural China
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LENG VILLAGE, China  - With the familiarity of a long-married couple, Leng Zhijin lifts his wife Wang Xiangying's ragged blouse to show raw rashes and she grasps his shoulder, gaunt after 20 days of diarrhea.
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Preventing disease in a developing and mostly rural country such as Vietnam can sometimes be as simple as frequently washing hands with soap.
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BEIJING (dpa) - Chinese and Thai scientists have developed a herbal anti-AIDS drug that proved effective in 89 per cent of cases during clinical trials, Chinese state media said on Sunday.
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HIV/Aids sufferers in parts of Papua New Guinea are being buried alive by relatives, a health worker says.
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BEIJING : China has stepped up surveillance of HIV carriers and is also investing heavily to raise public awareness about AIDS. The country has an estimated
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The proportion of females among those infected with HIV/AIDS in China jumped to 27.8 percent in 2006 from 19.4 percent in 2000, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
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BEIJING The number of people contracting the AIDS virus in China is rising and infections are spreading from high-risk groups such as drug users to the general population, according to a study released Tuesday.
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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa  - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new.
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YINCHUAN, China -- Dependent on a rusty wheelchair and unable to control her muscles below her neck, Li Yan seemed destined for nothing more than a short life of pain and hopelessness.
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China&#39;s president has publicly shaken hand an AIDS patient, in what is being described as a landmark moment. China officially has 840,000 HIV/AIDS sufferers, but experts believe many more people have the virus.
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Adolescents whose parents are  infected or have died from HIV/AIDS cope significantly better  emotionally if they have a strong social support system in  place, according to research published today in the American  Journal of Public Health.
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SINGAPORE : Singapore is unlikely to go the way of Thailand in the fight against AIDS, at least where public education campaigns promoting condom use are concerned.
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BEIJING -- They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments _ and often land on Web sites promoting stem cell treatments in China.
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Denial, food shortages and squandered resources were among the problems preventing thousands of AIDS patients from getting treatment in countries hardest hit by the disease, according to a report by treatment activists.
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Over two million elderly Tanzanian women are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS due to neglect, ignorance and poverty, a new study by HelpAge International has revealed.
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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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China&#39;s worst-hit AIDS province, Henan, has initiated a survey of blood buying medical stations in an effort to discover the true extent of its AIDS epidemic, local officials said.