S.Africa launches biggest AIDS vaccine trial
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South Africa, burdened with one of the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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A theory that an antiviral drug used to treat AIDS may also be used to prevent it will be put to the test in San Francisco and Atlanta this month, when enrollment of 400 gay men will begin for the US arm of an international HIV prevention study.
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The world's biggest scientific HIV/AIDS conference opened in Australia on Sunday with experts calling for more funding for research and new findings which suggest male circumcision can reduce infection by 60 percent.
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The monarch of South Africa&#39;s KwaZulu-Natal province is in the process of having all the prospective husbands of maidens in the royal reed dance tested for HIV.
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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A week-long effort to immunise 300 million children in Africa and Asia against polio starts 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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31 August 2004 - With women at least twice as likely to become infected with HIV as men when exposed to the virus that causes AIDS - and six times as vulnerable in parts of sub-Saharan Africa - HIV vaccine clinical trials must be geared towards meeting
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Health officials in Malawi were preparing on Monday to launch a massive HIV testing programme to identify tens of thousands of people unknowingly infected with the virus in the southern African nation.
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The first large-scale trial of an HIV vaccine is set to begin in South Africa, it has been announced.
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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.
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Nelson Mandela has launched a new  project to get people actively involved in fighting AIDS in  South Africa, one of the country's hardest hit by the epidemic,  his charitable foundation said on Monday.
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A landmark international study involving top South African scientists has unlocked some of the human immune system&#39;s deepest secrets, boosting hopes of developing the world&#39;s first successful Aids vaccine.
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Five-million South Africans, or 11% of the population, are infected with HIV, says a report published today by the Actuarial Society of SA to coincide with World Aids Day.
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Attendees of the AIDS Vaccine &#39;04 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday called for increased global financial support for the development of HIV vaccines, saying as much as $18 billion will be needed over the next decade for vaccine research.
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The first effective malaria vaccine promises to save millions of lives. Scientists were jubilant last Thursday when results of the trial involving children between one and four years in southern Mozambique
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For the first time in medical history, scientists have developed a malaria vaccine that has shown promise in a large scale trial conducted in Mozambique.