AIDS epidemic rampant in sub-Saharan African
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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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As a senior paediatric nurse at Zambia&#39;s top hospital, Mutinta Mwale is at the forefront of her country&#39;s desperate battle against the AIDS epidemic.
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HIV/Aids is twice as common in the war-torn north of Uganda as in the rest of the country, an aid agency says.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - The number of South  Africans carrying the virus that causes AIDS rose in 2003 but  the rate of infection especially among teenagers was  stabilizing, the government said in a report released Thursday.
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THE number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Africa, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to latest findings published in a report entitled: Aids
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Malaria may be helping spread the AIDS virus across Africa, the continent hardest hit by the incurable disease, scientists said on Thursday.
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In the 25 years since the first HIV-AIDS cases came to light, some countries have started to check the spread of the disease, while others, especially those in southern Africa, have witnessed
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PRETORIA -- The number of women infected with HIV is rising in every region of the world, according to a new UN report released yesterday, and top AIDS officials said long-used strategies to help prevent the spread of the deadly disease among women are woefully inadequate.
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The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus  infection is growing more rapidly in women  than in men in almost every part of the world, according to a new report.
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HIV infection is rising in every region  of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and  Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the  fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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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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HIV infections are on the rise in all regions and in China the deadly virus is gradually spreading from high-risk groups to the general population, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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An "increasing pool" of people in the UK are living with HIV and Aids, official statistics show.
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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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THE number of people infected with HIV rises daily in SA, the graveyards fill, and still South Africans do little to change their behaviour, say a range of experts .
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KAMPALA, Uganda  - The biggest HIV/AIDS training  center in sub-Saharan Africa opened in Uganda Wednesday with  officials hopeful it will significantly boost the continent's  ability to fight the deadly pandemic.
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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.