Love, hope for shunned kids in India AIDS school
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BHOOGAON, India  - In a smart blue tunic and red ribbons in her hair, 12-year-old Komal's laughing eyes hide a fear of death that stalks every student in her village school.
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The world's two most populous nations  promised 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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Poems written by a young Indian AIDS patient describing the shame and fear he felt after being diagnosed with the disease have been recorded by a top pop band to help tackle the prejudice sufferers face.
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HIV-infected babies have a greater chance of survival if they receive treatment before they show signs of illness or a weakened immune system, the International AIDS Society (IAS) was told on Tuesday.
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It&#39;s encouraging that a conference on AIDS was held in Indianapolis last week. The pandemic has infected 38 million people. The Indiana University School of Medicine has partnered with a Kenyan university
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A network of HIV-positive people in India has launched a national campaign against thousands of illegal backstreet clinics and quacks who cheat patients with the promise of curing AIDS.
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India's first mainstream movie with a plot centered on AIDS opens worldwide this week, with leading actors portraying characters who battle stigma and discrimination after testing positive for the deadly disease.
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GENEVA  - Children with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
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Concerned about the rapid spread of AIDS in Andhra Pradesh, the state government is enlisting the support of barbers and religious leaders to spread awareness.
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Indian President Abdul Kalam on Wednesday while visiting South Africa proposed that India and South Africa -- the two countries with the largest number of HIV-positive people -- begin working together to fight HIV/AIDS, Indo-Asian News Service/newkerala
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NEW DELHI, July 6 -- India's HIV population, thought to be the largest in the world, is actually half what experts had previously estimated, according to new figures released Friday by the country's Health Ministry.
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The United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) report released in November 2004 indicated that there were 5.1 million people suffering from HIV/AIDS in India.
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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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A report by a kids&#39; group says more than half of the children in the world are suffering because of the effects of war, poverty and the HIV virus.
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on  Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health  workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by  handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
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The numbers in India are frightening: In a country of more than 1 billion people, some 5.7 million are infected with HIV/AIDS. That makes India home to more victims of the disease than any other country in the world.
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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