Botswana: President&#39;s Shock Warning On Aids
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Botswana&#39;s President Festus Mogae has warned that the country cannot sustain the current high rate of HIV infection and that people should &quot;abstain from unsafe sex, or die&quot;.
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A claim by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh that he can cure Aids is lambasted by a leading HIV specialist.
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South Africa's veteran Zulu leader Mangosutho Buthelezi, who has lost two children to AIDS, says the pandemic-blighted continent should stop sweeping the disease under the carpet.
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China&#39;s president has publicly shaken hand an AIDS patient, in what is being described as a landmark moment. China officially has 840,000 HIV/AIDS sufferers, but experts believe many more people have the virus.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged world leaders Wednesday to face reality and understand that to stop the spread of AIDS, they must protect the people most vulnerable to virus.
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South Africa's president hailed his embattled health minister as a heroine and blasted her critics as "wild animals" in a remarkable display of support that dismayed AIDS activists demanding the dismissal of the woman who advocated beets and garlic as remedies for the disease.
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On the eve of this year&#39;s International AIDS Day, there was a radio programme on BBC highlighting the prevalence of HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa with several examples cited in the fight against the disease.
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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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Former US President Bill Clinton tells the BBC that India is now the epicentre of the global HIV/Aids epidemic.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The spread of HIV and AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned yesterday.
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People in Botswana, where more than a third of the population is HIV positive, go to the polls today in elections that were expected to be dominated by the ruling party - like every other vote since the southern African country gained independence
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African, especially southern African, nations must link tuberculosis testing and treatment with HIV prevention programs if they are to win the AIDS battle, a top World Health Organisation official said on Thursday.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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The rate of new HIV and Aids infections appears to have peaked in KwaZulu-Natal, a leading researcher in the field has said. Professor Alan Whiteside, the head of the Health, Economics and HIV and Aids Division
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The grandson of Nelson Mandela heeded the former president's call for more openness about the AIDS epidemic on Saturday, revealing that his mother had died from the virus that also killed his father.
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On Wednesday, a little more than a month before the start of the Bush administration&#39;s second term, World AIDS Day will highlight the continuing battle against the epidemic.
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GRANDE BAIE, Mauritius  - Southern Africa should  treat AIDS as a political, social and economic crisis because  it is killing off people crucial to its development, Malawian  President Bingu wa Mutharika said on Monday.