Peru blood banks face HIV crisis
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At least four people contract HIV after blood transfusions in Peru, prompting a national emergency.
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China still faces a problem with the illegal sale of blood to hospitals, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, years after such trade sparked an AIDS outbreak in the central province of Henan.
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Thousands of uprooted Kenyans are not getting the HIV medicines they need to survive, and rising sexual attacks in camps stand to further spread the disease, public health experts say.
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Blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki after an urgent appeal in South Africa was destroyed because it was regarded as a health risk, it emerged yesterday.
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The rapid spread in Latin America of the virus that causes AIDS is made worse by the Roman Catholic Church's stand against using condoms, a U.N. official said on Monday.
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China's efforts to clean up an unsafe blood supply chain, blamed for many HIV infections, has led to a severe shortage of an effective hemophilia drug and put tens of thousands of patients in danger.
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Indian health authorities have found at least 278 blood donors to be HIV-positive in the northeast state of Tripura, fueling fears of infected blood supplies.
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The organization advised health workers in countries hard hit by AIDS to urge every patient to be tested for H.I.V. rather than to simply offer tests in limited circumstances.
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Health experts meeting in Ethiopia say combined efforts to fight the HIV virus and tuberculosis could save the lives of up to a half-million Africans every year.
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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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ISLAMABAD: Aid workers from around the world on Wednesday urged the United Nations and womenâs and religious groups to help combat HIV/AIDS and ensure that people affected by the disease were deeply involved in the fight against the pandemic.
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China has made it illegal to buy and sell blood, the state-run Xinhua news agency has reported. Amid fears that China faces a huge HIV epidemic, this is the country&#39;s first law targeting the disease.
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China has admitted that illegal blood sales, one of the main causes of its spiralling AIDS problem, are still rampant despite being outlawed in 1996.
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Johannesburg - In Britain, people who have had sex with a South African cannot donate blood for a year after the last sexual encounter, because of the risk of their blood being contaminated with the HI virus.
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Quick action is needed to fight Afghanistan's growing drug addiction problem to head off an HIV/AIDS crisis in the shattered country, leading health agencies said on Thursday.
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BEIJING China will conduct its nationwide survey to learn the extent of an AIDS epidemic stemming from the sale of blood, demanding that local governments find and test every person who has sold blood, officials said Thursday.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS