HIV/AIDS-Related Deaths, Teen Pregnancies Down in New York City ...
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Although the number of diabetes-related deaths increased in 2003 in New York City, the number of HIV/AIDS-related deaths in the city decreased and fewer teenage girls gave birth last year, according to an annual vital statistics summary released Wednesday
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Fewer teens in the US are engaging in sex, according to a study released by the US Department of Health and Human Services. Between 1995 and 2002 sexual activity among teenage girls and boys declined significantly and teen contraceptive use improved.
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NEW YORK  - Adolescents whose parents are infected or have died from HIV/AIDS cope significantly better emotionally if they have a strong social support system in place, according to research published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
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The city's overall death rate dropped to an all-time low in 2006 due in part to declines in mortality from HIV and smoking-related illness, the health commissioner said Tuesday
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The number of deaths worldwide among children under 5 dropped to a record low of 9.7 million in 2006, reflecting progress in areas such as malaria prevention, childhood immunizations and breastfeeding rates, global health officials said yesterday.
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NEWS: In 2002, weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top US health officials were warned that research about the drug, nevirapine, was flawed
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PRETORIA -- More than 1 billion children suffer from poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS, a new UNICEF report says, indicating that gains in reducing child deaths in the 1980s and '90s have stalled in the past decade.
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â¢ In 1981, there were 422 AIDS cases and 159 deaths in the United States. In 2001, there were 506,154 cases and 459,518 deaths. Today, 850,000 to 950,000 Americans are living with HIV.
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Figures from the HPA, released in its annual report yesterday, show that teenagers and young people are disproportionately affected by infections such as chlamydia, which can make women infertile, and gonorrhoea.
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This year&#39;s flu season has claimed its first casualties in the New York City area. Four senior citizens died and 13 others were hospitalized after a recent outbreak in a Queens nursing home.
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The usual war of words followed hard on the heels of the latest statistics on HIV/Aids in South Africa this week - but the tragic bottom line remained that more than 5 million people are infected with HIV.
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Local health officials worry that all the education, awareness and prevention programs about HIV/AIDS aren&#39;t working since many Franklin County residents continue to have unprotected sex and are becoming infected with the virus.
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NEW YORK  - Nearly 30 percent of women in their late teens suffer recurrent infection with Chlamydia, a rate higher than previously recognized in this population, new research shows.
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Support groups that discuss health issues during pregnancy and after childbirth can help to reduce infant and maternal deaths in poor countries, researchers said on Friday.
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I wish this could be a good news/bad news kind of a column, but the problem is that there isn&#39;t much good news to report when it comes to AIDS.
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com New York Bureau. (New York City) On Wednesday, the 17th annual World AIDS Day will be observed around the world but in many communities special programs began today.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women infected with HIV are more likely to spread the virus to their children if they are carrying twins, according to a report in the journal