S.African AIDS Campaigner Not Betting on Nobel
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South African AIDS campaigner Zackie Achmat knows he's a long shot for the Nobel Peace Prize, but says his nomination is already a victory for the millions of people around the world battling the epidemic.
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A South African court on Friday  rejected a bid by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of  former president Nelson Mandela, to appeal against a fraud  conviction, news agency SAPA reported.
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South Africa's government long  ignored warnings about drug-resistant tuberculosis, putting  millions of HIV-positive people at risk now that a dangerous  new strain of TB has emerged, AIDS activists say.
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South African health department and the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) agreed on Friday race will not be used to determine the level of risk in donated blood.
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CAIRO - AIDS/HIV prevention officials in the Middle East and North Africa face a careful balancing act of spreading awareness about the disease without appearing to promote immorality.
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South Africa is to stop racially profiling blood donors after an outcry over the alleged rejection of blood from black donors because of the risk of HIV.
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South Africa's ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma has denied allegations of corruption and vowed to fight charges laid against him in court, local media reported on Friday.
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The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Wangari Maathai. The African native is an environmentalist and human rights campaigner.
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South Africa's controversial   health minister hit back on Friday at criticism of her   unorthodox views on AIDS and stuck to views that traditional   medicine can treat AIDS.
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Despite facing an &quot;alarming AIDS epidemic,&quot; Singapore will not go on a publicity blitz to promote condom use out of respect for residents who hold conservative views on sexual behaviour, a minister said.
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Nobel laureate Jody Williams on Tuesday rejected Sudan&#39;s claims that the UN mission she led to Darfur was biased, saying she did not lend any credence to Sudanese statements on its credibility.
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The campaign to get cheap Aids drugs to millions of Africans was dealt a blow yesterday when a manufacturer in India admitted it could not prove the quality of its medicines and withdrew them from the list approved by the World Health Organisation.
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South Africa's government scaled back the influence of its minister for AIDS policy, pilloried for questioning the effectiveness of anti-retroviral drug treatments and promoting beetroot, garlic and African potatoes as ways to fight AIDS.
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DURBAN - A South African millionaire businessman has pleaded not guilty to bribing Deputy President Jacob Zuma at a corruption trial which could hit Zuma&#39;s hopes of taking over the country&#39;s top job.
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The former deputy to South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said the minister deliberately undercut her efforts to tackle chronic illness in the AIDS-ravaged country.
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OSLO -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai defended being chosen as the first environmentalist to win the award, saying yesterday that it would help others understand the importance of protecting the world's resources.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai urged a fight against deforestation on Wednesday on her arrival in Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize amid controversy about whether the award has lost its way by embracing environmentalism.