Rallies, Specials Planned For World AIDS Day
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The stigma and discrimination that shadow AIDS victims are major obstacles to effective prevention and care, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
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Earlier this month, the World AIDS Day observance focused on how this epidemic has killed, sickened and threatened women and girls around the globe.
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In a bid to increase the reach of the anti-AIDS campaign, 400-odd youngsters will board special trains and fan across the country advocating the use of condoms to avoid deadly the HIV virus, which causes AIDS.
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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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PARIS  - The murderous advance of AIDS was commemorated around the world in pledges, appeals, processions and concerts, but the day was stamped by China&#39;s warnings about its exposure to the epidemic.
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December 1 is World Aids Day. Global attention is focused on women and girls with the day&#39;s theme: &quot;Women, Girls, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)&quot;.
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Every December 1st, the United Nations spearheads commemorations of the global AIDS epidemic and this year, the focus is on women and girls.
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AIDS has been spreading so quickly in fast-growing countries like China and India that it could threaten the world&#39;s economy. Today is World AIDS Day, and nations around the globe
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South Africa announces a five-year plan to try to fight Aids and halve infection rates, on World Aids Day.
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This Wednesday was the 17th Annual World AIDS Day. The theme for this yearâs event was âWomen, Girls, HIV and AIDS,â a demographic that makes up nearly half of the 39.4 million people who are infected
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Ceres P. Doyo. IT&#39;S six days before World AIDS Day, which falls on Dec. 1. This year&#39;s theme is &quot;Women and AIDS.&quot; For the past two successive years (2002 and 2003) the theme was &quot;Stigma and Discrimination
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1145CET--As the World Aids Day is being celebrated around the world, females are being encouraged to be knowledgeable and self-confident to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS.
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on  Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health  workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by  handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
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November 24 - World AIDS Day 2004 will be commemorated around the globe on Wednesday, December 1. World AIDS Day celebrates progress made in the battle against the epidemic - and brings into focus remaining challenges.
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Having a day proclaimed is an old publicity gimmick but most such days do not have lethal overtones. World AIDS Day - today â-ruthfully is a publicity device, but one that is badly needed.
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This Wednesday is World AIDS Day: It will be marked by concerts and candlelit vigils from Armenia to Zambia. The speeches and statistics will have a horrific familiarity: Two decades after
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PHOENIX - A candlelight vigil is planned tonight to mark World AIDS Day and remember Valley residents who&#39;ve died of AIDS-related complications.