AIDS poses disastrous threat to South Africa
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The killer disease AIDS has posed a disastrous threat to South Africa as the annual number of deaths due to AIDS is projected to peak with 487,320 in the year 2008.
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Hundreds of thousands of Africans are at risk of disease, amid devastating floods, the UN warns.
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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 spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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HIV/Aids is badly affecting the global workforce, the International Labour Organization says on World Aids Day.
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Improving women's rights could boost the battle against AIDS in southern African countries, where women are often forced into risky sex by male partners or economic desperation, a new report said on Friday.
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African television and radio   stations are planning an on-air campaign to build hope in the   face of the AIDS pandemic, in a bid to raise spirits on the   worst-hit continent where millions have died from the disease.
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Safe no more: An acute global shortage in contraceptives has experts in Africa predicting a population explosion and a frightening spread of AIDS.
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 December (IRIN) - The HIV/AIDS pandemic has already created millions of orphans throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but the worst is yet to come, warned Per Engebak, UN Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa.
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The UN warned on Tuesday that the world is facing a &quot;unique development challenge&quot; as new data showed nearly 40-million people now have HIV and over 3-million will die of Aids this year, the highest tolls in the 23-year history of the killer disease.
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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The head of the United Nations' AIDS program warned that the three countries could turn their small, localized epidemics into gigantic ones capable of disrupting the world's response to the disease.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The spread of HIV and AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned yesterday.
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AIDS may be killing elected officials in some Southern African countries faster than they can be replaced, creating a new threat to democracy and governance in the region, a new study said.
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More than 80 international scientists and academics condemned South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for the firing of the health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki released Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Nearly one in every four South African servicemen has contracted HIV/AIDS while the country&#39;s political parties urged the government to increase public spending and education to fight against the pandemic.
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US President George Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids warns that the world is losing the battle against the virus.