Surgeon's knife may offer hope in African AIDS fight
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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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As a senior paediatric nurse at Zambia&#39;s top hospital, Mutinta Mwale is at the forefront of her country&#39;s desperate battle against the AIDS epidemic.
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A drug used to treat people infected with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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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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Male circumcision halved a man's risk of being infected by the virus that causes AIDS in heterosexual intercourse, according to results of two large clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda announced on Wednesday.
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Aids activist Zackie Achmat has joined the chorus of calls for TB treatment to be combined with HIV testing and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, echoing claims that it could save the lives of up to 500 000 HIV-infected Africans a year.
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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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Final data from two clinical trials in Africa suggest that circumcision reduces a manâs risk of contracting H.I.V. by as much as 65 percent â more than suspected when the two trials were stopped because the results were so clear.
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Scientific studies have confirmed a long-standing belief that male circumcision can reduce HIV infection rates in men by 60 percent, an international AIDS conference will be told next week.
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A critical shortage of healthcare workers and restrictions on prescribing life-saving drugs are crippling the war on HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.
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Malaria may be helping spread the AIDS virus across Africa, the continent hardest hit by the incurable disease, scientists said on Thursday.
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THURSDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers in Africa said Wednesday that they found that circumcision is such a good defense against HIV infection that they shut down two studies early, and instead offered all participants a chance to be circumcised.
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As many as half a million lives could be saved every year in Africa if governments combine their approach to tackle a rampant AIDS epidemic with measures to treat tuberculosis, health experts said on Tuesday.
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Dr. Michael R. Treat is hard at work on an invention he hopes will change the way surgeons work in the operating room - an automated helping hand.
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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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The move that could potentially affect tens of thousands of AIDS patients in poor countries who have only recently entered treatment.
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Scientists perform a surgical operation on a living cell, using a needle just a few billionths of a metre wide.