Madagascar fights to keep HIV rate down
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On a back street in one of Antananarivo's seedier neighborhoods, Saholy clutches at the hood of her blue jacket, pulling it down against the light rain. She steels herself for more verbal abuse from her fellow street walkers plying their trade on the corners.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 December (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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Southern African nations mulled ways to rope high-risk groups into the fight against HIV/AIDS in the world's worst-affected region as they started a three-day meeting in Malawi.
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Too many societies across the globe are losing the battle against AIDS. Despite increased global funding and access to prevention and care services, the disease continues to spread.
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War, refugee crises and large-scale rape of women in sub-Saharan African nations have not spawned higher HIV infection rates in this region hard hit by AIDS, according to a study contradicting a common belief.
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South Africa may lose the HIV battle as infection and death rates outpace treatment, Unicef warns.
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Media in the Middle East and North  Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to  help combat the epidemic by fighting cultural taboos, a U.N.  Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Tuesday.
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The world continues to lose an ugly battle to HIV/AIDS that shows no sign of letting up after 25 million people have died a quarter-century into the epidemic, the head of the U.N.&#039;s HIV/AIDS joint program said.
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Researchers have hit on what may be an inexpensive way to prevent death from infections in children with HIV until anti-retroviral drugs become affordable in the developing world.
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Goverment policies have been blamed for fuelling discrimination against people with HIV.
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Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the minister of health, had promoted garlic and beetroot as protection against AIDS, symbolizing her nationâs slow response to the H.I.V. epidemic.
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Anti-retroviral drugs are expected to drop from CFA 15,000 per month to CFA 3,000 in October. The Minister of Public Health, Urbain Olanguena Awono, last Friday faced the press within the framework of government communication policy.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar -- This island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa poses one of the world's great AIDS mysteries.
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Pristine forests offer the rare primates a much healthier diet, an anthropologist says, in a finding that may shape future protection efforts on the African island nation of Madagascar.
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Southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province has registered marked progress in HIV/AIDS prevention since it carried out six programs earlier this year to fight the deadly disease.
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Impoverished Madagascar is to distribute 15 million free condoms next year to promote safe sex and halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, officials said Tuesday.