With 1,500 infected each day, S.Africa gets AIDS plan
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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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Earlier this month, the World AIDS Day observance focused on how this epidemic has killed, sickened and threatened women and girls around the globe.
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Five-million South Africans, or 11% of the population, are infected with HIV, says a report published today by the Actuarial Society of SA to coincide with World Aids Day.
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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People infected with the virus that causes AIDS will soon be able to take a once-a-day pill that combines three drugs in a &quot;cocktail&quot; therapy that can be swallowed in a single dose.
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Health experts say combining TB and HIV testing and treatment could save the lives of up to 500,000 HIV positive Africans a year. The World Health Organization and UNAids issued the call to a health conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The first large-scale trial of an HIV vaccine is set to begin in South Africa, it has been announced.
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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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The world's two most populous nations promised on Wednesday to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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By the time World Aids day has run its course an estimated 14,000 more people in the world will have become infected with HIV. Nearly 40 million people globally are living with the Aids virus
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South Africa will unveil a new plan aimed at fighting its HIV/AIDS crisis on Friday, seeking to calm bitter debate and revamp policies that have thus far done little to stop the epidemic.
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The South African government has vowed to intensify its campaign against HIV/Aids. The campaign will include prevention, treatment and home-based care.
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South Africa, burdened with one of the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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A new UN report, marking Wednesday's World AIDS day, estimates that 5 million people this year got HIV.
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European approval has been given for the first HIV medication which involves taking just one pill a day.
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The global HIV epidemic is growing, leaving an estimated 39.5 million people worldwide infected with the deadly virus, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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South Africa is overhauling its AIDS strategy in a bid to counter the rise of extreme drug resistant tuberculosis which is proving a serious threat to those suffering HIV/AIDS, a senior official said on Thursday.