Auction nets over $40 million for AIDS in Africa
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Contemporary art collectors opened their wallets on Thursday and shelled out $42.6 million at a Valentine's Day charity auction spearheaded by rocker Bono and British artist Damien Hirst to benefit the fight against AIDS in Africa.
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The department of state for Health and Social Welfare recently signed a total grant agreement of over US$ 19 million for malaria and HIV/Aids.
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WASHINGTON -- Malaria may be helping spread the AIDS virus across Africa, the continent hardest hit by the incurable disease, scientists said yesterday.
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More than 3 million people will die from AIDS this year, and nearly 40 million now have the virus that causes the disease. Those are the highest tolls in the 23-year history of this plague.
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The UK gives a grant of more than Â£4m to women raped and infected with HIV/Aids in the Rwandan genocide.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced...
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The government said Tuesday it would donate one billion pounds (1.4 billion euros, two billion dollars) over eight years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the world's major powers will turn their attention to Africa on Friday and are widely expected to announce a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases.
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President Bush will propose $3.2  billion for next year to combat the spread of AIDS globally,  one of the few increases in what is expected to be a tight  foreign aid budget, administration and congressional sources  said on Friday.
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Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world&#39;s population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV-- some 25.4 million.
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The search to find an effective drug to fight malaria received a huge financial boost today with a donation of $42.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation took its support of AIDS-related research and care to a new level Wednesday, announcing a half-billion-dollar grant to a global fund that provides AIDS assistance in poor countries.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had pledged little fresh cash for the poor.
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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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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Nigeria needs about $248 million to expand its anti-AIDS program and provide life-saving pills for 200,000 of its 3.5 million citizens infected with the virus, the country&#39;s health minister said Wednesday.
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Paris - More than three million people will have died from Aids in 2004 and nearly 40 million now have HIV, the highest tolls in the 23-year history of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the United Nations reported Tuesday.
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A host of traditional ceremonies and practices are creating AIDS transmission routes unique to Africa, researchers now agree.