Catholic condom ban helping AIDS spread in Latam: U.N.
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The rapid spread in Latin America of the virus that causes AIDS is made worse by the Roman Catholic Church's stand against using condoms, a U.N. official said on Monday.
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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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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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Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged religious leaders to drop bans on condoms, vital in curbing the spread of AIDS, according to a pre-recorded television interview on World AIDS day.
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The AIDS pandemic rampaging around the globe will not be stopped without radical social change to improve the lot of women and girls, who now look likely to die in greater numbers than men, UN agencies said on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Dec 02 (SADA) - Empowering women and taking preventive measures to fight against AIDS will stem spread of epidemic.
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PRETORIA -- The number of women infected with HIV is rising in every region of the world, according to a new UN report released yesterday, and top AIDS officials said long-used strategies to help prevent the spread of the deadly disease among women are woefully inadequate.
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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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In a substantial shift from traditional policy, the Catholic Church in Spain has said it supports the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS.
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The Catholic Church in Spain backtracked from a leading bishop's groundbreaking statement in support of condom use to fight the spread of AIDS, saying instead the church still believes artificial contraception is immoral.
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Spain's Catholic bishops have defied Vatican dogma on contraception by accepting for the first time the use of condoms to prevent the spread of Aids.
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The Catholic Church is to discuss the use of condoms to fight the spread of HIV, perhaps signalling a shift in policy.
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The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS virus as &quot;a major breakthrough.&quot;
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Male circumcision could prevent millions of HIV infections every year and play a major role in controlling the virus&#39; spread in developing nations, a major AIDS conference was told Tuesday.
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HIV infection is rising in every region  of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and  Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the  fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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South Africa should promote condoms more widely to try and curb its AIDS epidemic, the head of the United Nations AIDS program said on Thursday.
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Spain's Conference of Catholic Bishops chief spokesman said condoms "have their place in a comprehensive and global prevention of AIDS."