AIDS to be 3rd leading cause of death
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Within the next 25 years, AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as the top three causes of death worldwide, according to a study published online Monday.
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Using drugs to prevent HIV infection could prevent as many as 3 million new cases in Africa if it was done right, researchers predicted on Tuesday.
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This year, once again, the annual report from the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS and the World Health Organization tragically documents the way the global AIDS epidemic is still killing millions of people and spawning hot spots in Asia and Eastern
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The rate of HIV/AIDS cases in Uganda, a  country widely praised for its fight against the disease, may  be nearly three times as high as official figures suggest,  according to an NGO that works with HIV/AIDS sufferers.
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SHANGHAI, China Sept. 15, 2004 - With AIDS making disastrous new inroads in the Asian-Pacific region, World Health Organization experts are evaluating progress toward providing anti-AIDS drugs to 3 million
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THE latest report of the United Nations organization that combats HIV-AIDS (UNAIDS) indicates that 4.9 million people have become infected with the immune
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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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AIDS advocates and health workers on Wednesday marked World AIDS Day by focusing on gender inequalities that can lead to an increased risk of HIV infection among women and girls, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports (AP/Long Island Newsday, 12/1).
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Independent of cigarette  smoking, infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is  associated with an elevated risk for developing lung cancer, a  study shows.
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More than a third of a million South Africans have died of AIDS over the past year, the head of the country's Medical Research Council said Tuesday.
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Tuesday, December 1 is World AIDS Day, and in anticipation of this event, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization has released a report documenting the increase in the spread of AIDS worldwide.
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President Bush will propose &#36;3.2 billion for next year to combat the spread of AIDS globally, one of the few increases in what is expected to be a tight foreign aid budget, administration and congressional sources said on Friday.
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A World Health Organization initiative to provide 3 million HIV/AIDS patients with antiretroviral drugs by the end of 2005 will likely miss its target, said Director-General Dr.
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Small victories are being won against  the AIDS virus, experts said on Wednesday as a report showed  that 10 times more people in Africa are getting life-saving HIV  drugs than did three years ago, but overall most people who  need treatment are still not getting it.
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New HIV infections among homosexual men are on the rise in Hong Kong and a government consultant warned on Wednesday that prevalence of the disease in this group could hit 30 percent by 2020 if nothing is done.
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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa  - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new.
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TOMORROW is World Aids Day, and this is the 17th year this annual event has taken place to raise awareness of one of the most serious global, national and local public health issues.