AIDS programs fail to reach high-risk groups: U.N.
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Surveillance for the HIV virus is weak in most of the world and prevention and treatment programs often fail to reach high-risk drug users, homosexuals and sex workers, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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Up to half a million HIV-positive Africans die each year because health chiefs have failed to coordinate the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, the U.N. said Tuesday.
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Millions of mothers, newborn babies and children die each year in Africa from preventable diseases despite promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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Many new tools could join condoms and  counseling programs in preventing AIDS, but not enough is being  done to prove they work and then get them to the people who  need them most, experts told the International Conference on  AIDS on Tuesday.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told African leaders Sunday they were failing to meet targets for reducing poverty and combating killer diseases five years after agreeing to global development goals.
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The global battle against HIV/Aids will ultimately fail unless serious progress is made on womenâs rights in the developing world, the UN says.
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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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The global battle against HIV will ultimately fail unless serious progress is made on women&#39;s rights in the developing world, the United Nations says.
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Too many societies across the globe are losing the battle against AIDS. Despite increased global funding and access to prevention and care services, the disease continues to spread.
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Asia-Pacific risks an AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa's unless governments across the region step up efforts to combat the spread of the disease, the United Nations is warning.
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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.
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The world continues to lose an ugly battle to HIV/AIDS that shows no sign of letting up after 25 million people have died a quarter-century into the epidemic, the head of the U.N.&#039;s HIV/AIDS joint program said.
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The Asia-Pacific region risks an &quot;AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa&#39;s&quot; unless national governments and regional institutions &quot;step up&quot; efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Kathleen Cravero said on Wednesday in Manila
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Global efforts to curb the spread of HIV/Aids are failing because the world has not recognised that it is a female epidemic, a report said yesterday.
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Watchdog development groups accused the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Wednesday of doing too little to help the global battle against HIV/AIDS, but the two institutions responded that they are at the forefront of the struggle.
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Media in the Middle East and North Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to help combat the epidemic by fighting cultural taboos, a U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Tuesday.
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South Africa should promote condoms more widely to try and curb its AIDS epidemic, the head of the United Nations AIDS program said on Thursday.