World Kicks Off AIDS Day, China Gets Tough
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The world marked AIDS Day on Wednesday,  promising to eradicate ignorance and prejudice about a disease  that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined  to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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It was activities galore as the world celebrated the World HIV/AIDS Day. The celebration explores how gender inequality fuels the AIDS epidemic and is conceived to accelerate the global response
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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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Aids is spreading in quite different ways in different parts of the world - making it harder to treat and prevent infection - according to the annual UN report on the disease published yesterday.
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On Wednesday, a little more than a month before the start of the Bush administration&#39;s second term, World AIDS Day will highlight the continuing battle against the epidemic.
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In observance of today being World AIDS Day, local agencies will offer free HIV testing and educational events in Mobile County. World AIDS Day began in 1988 as an effort to focus global attention on the disease
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Ever since the World Health Organization declared the first World AIDS Day in 1988, Dec. 1 has become a day of reflection about the estimated 30 million who have died from HIV/AIDS and the estimated 40 million who are living with the disease.
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In 1988, when World AIDS Day began, 10 million people worldwide were living with AIDS. Today, nearly 40 million men, women and children are HIV positive.
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ISLAMABAD: World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe on 1 December to review the progress made in the battle against the epidemic, and brings into focus remaining challenges.
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In a public display of commitment to fighting the disease a day before World AIDS Day, state media reported on Tuesday that China&#39;s President Hu Jintao shook hands with patients during a visit to a hospital in the
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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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Two controversies flared on World AIDS Day as the United States and South Africa backed sexual abstinence to avoid infection and British leader Tony Blair castigated religious bans on condoms.
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Central China&#39;s Hunan Province has launched a project to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission from mother to baby in six state-level AIDS prevention pilot areas, as the number of such infections is increasing.
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China, India and Russia are on the brink of an Africa-style Aids epidemic that could devastate the global economy and international security, the head of the UN Aids project has warned.
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Having a day proclaimed is an old publicity gimmick but most such days do not have lethal overtones. World AIDS Day - today â-ruthfully is a publicity device, but one that is badly needed.
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Southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province has registered marked progress in HIV/AIDS prevention since it carried out six programs earlier this year to fight the deadly disease.
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Thousands of activists, students and sex workers take to streets across South Asia to mark World Aids Day.