India faces off against AIDS epidemic
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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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Many World AIDS Day observances around the world today have focused on the need to protect women and girls from HIV who are contracting the virus at an alarming rate.
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JIND, India  - India's injecting drug problem may be worse than thought, a new survey of the country's breadbasket region shows, worrying health experts and activists who say it could fuel the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) 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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Pakistan is a good example of a country that is learning fast but late about the threat of HIV/Aids. Unlike India, recorded prevalence in Pakistan is small and the authorities are working to keep it that way.
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Calcutta: Team India captain Sourav Ganguly and his South African counterpart Graeme Smith joined hands with captains of seven other Test playing nations to lend support to the fight against HIV/AIDS on the occasion of World AIDS Day on Wednesday.
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Health ministers, AIDS experts, industry and civil society representatives from across the EU and its eastern neighbours are meeting today in Vilnius to pledge action to counter a growing HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Indian President Abdul Kalam on Wednesday while visiting South Africa proposed that India and South Africa -- the two countries with the largest number of HIV-positive people -- begin working together to fight HIV/AIDS, Indo-Asian News Service/newkerala
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Rahul Dravid is among cricket stars taking part in a campaign against HIV/Aids during the World Cup.
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India must get on top of its HIV  epidemic by next year or risk seeing it spiral out of control,  the man who controls the richest private anti-AIDS fund in the  country and a senior United Nations official warned.
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The world's two most populous nations  promised on Wednesday to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a  disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil  confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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SURAT, India  - Dozens of Indian men and women infected with HIV/AIDS have agreed to marry each other after meeting at a special matchmaking event, hoping to end the isolation the deadly infection often brings.
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India, home to the world's  second-largest HIV population after South Africa, began its  first ever human trials of a new vaccine against the deadly  virus Monday, the health minister said.
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India, home to the world's second largest HIV population after South Africa, is set to begin human trials of a new vaccine against the virus in January, a research institute said Tuesday.
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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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The trafficking of young girls who are forced to work as prostitutes has been identified as a key factor in the steep rise in Aids in India.
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International AIDS specialists and Indian health officials revealed new data showing that India has 2.5 million people infected with HIV, about half the previous estimate by world health officials. But the Indian government said it still plans to move aggressively to fight the disease, pledging $1.95 billion for a new round of its AIDS control program ...