Africa Needs to Refocus Her Policy On Tackling Aids
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On the eve of this year&#39;s International AIDS Day, there was a radio programme on BBC highlighting the prevalence of HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa with several examples cited in the fight against the disease.
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease.
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Improving women&#39;s rights could  boost the battle against AIDS in southern African countries,  where women are often forced into risky sex by male partners or  economic desperation, a new report said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON - Health experts urged the Bush administration on Wednesday to move beyond the ABCs of global AIDS prevention - abstinence, being faithful and using condoms - and help women who are infected through factors beyond their control.
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Zimbabwe is showing the way for Africa in the fight against HIV/AIDS, President Robert Mugabe said on Friday as he urged Zimbabweans to take greater personal responsibility in stopping the epidemic.
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A top U.N. official urged countries in Asia on Thursday to deal squarely and bravely with HIV/AIDS, which he said was being driven dangerously underground because of stigma and conservative attitudes.
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South Africa launched a revamped national AIDS plan on Wednesday as new research showed the high cost of government inaction on the epidemic -- 1,500 South Africans infected with HIV every day.
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In the 25 years since the first HIV-AIDS cases came to light, some countries have started to check the spread of the disease, while others, especially those in southern Africa, have witnessed
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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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South Africa is on course to meet its target of halving new Aids infections by 2011, the deputy president says.
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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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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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With the rates of women and girls living with HIV/AIDS climbing sharply worldwide, public-health experts and activists this week urged policymakers to go beyond the ABCs of AIDS prevention
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When journalist Gwen Ifill asked the vice-presidential candidates what government should do about the disproportionate HIV death rates of young black women, she focused attention on a US health crisis.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced...
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Sub-Saharan Africa is still bearing the brunt of the HIV/Aids epidemic, a UNAids report reveals.
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The risks of HIV/Aids are being overstated, a former World Health Organization expert says.