Groups mark World Human Rights Day with AIDS awareness events
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The Global Coalition for Women and AIDS and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS marked World Human Rights Day on Friday with campaigns aimed at raising awareness of the links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV.
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World AIDS Day is an annual campaign to raise awareness of HIV AIDS worldwide and stimulate appropriate remedial action. It was first observed on December 01, 1988 following a recommendation by a summit of world health ministers.
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The UN sounded the alarm of bad things to come as it prepared to sponsor events around the world on Dec. 1 to raise awareness about the unrelenting spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) joins with our global collaborators and colleagues to mark the 17th annual World AIDS Day this year with an emphasis
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new HIV 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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Ever since the World Health Organization declared the first World AIDS Day in 1988, Dec. 1 has become a day of reflection about the estimated 30 million who have died from HIV/AIDS and the estimated 40 million who are living with the disease.
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In observance of today being World AIDS Day, local agencies will offer free HIV testing and educational events in Mobile County. World AIDS Day began in 1988 as an effort to focus global attention on the disease
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This month, World AIDS Day was observed to remember those who have died from the disease and those who are living with the HIV virus that causes it.
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BEIJING: The world marked Aids Day yesterday, promising to eradicate ignorance and prejudice about a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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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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The UN is leading a day of global events to mark the abolition of slavery and to highlight continuing abuses.
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UNAIDS and the Global Coalition for Women and AIDS recently concluded their &quot;16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence&quot; campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the &quot;links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV infection&quot;.
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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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The international human rights group, Amnesty International, said on Wednesday that a global &quot;pandemic of violence&quot; against women was fuelling the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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In the candlelit darkness of the Northwest United Protestant Church, people gathered Wednesday night to commemorate World AIDS Day spoke aloud the names of friends and family members suffering from the disease, and those who have died.
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NEW DELHI: Thousands took to the streets across India Wednesday to mark World AIDS Day as the government announced a huge media blitz to make the entire billion-plus population aware of the pandemic in six months.
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omen and girls are especially vulnerable to the AIDS virus and need to take steps so they don&#39;t get infected, speakers at a World AIDS Day event in Louisville said yesterday.