Condoms, Parades Mark AIDS Day; China Gets Tough
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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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Tuesday, December 1 is World AIDS Day, and in anticipation of this event, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization has released a report documenting the increase in the spread of AIDS worldwide.
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(OTTUMWA) Many around the world and in Ottumwa are holding special ceremonies for &quot;World AIDS Day,&quot; a special global event dedicated to remembering victims of AIDS, learning more about the devastating effects of the disease and reaffirming the commitment
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GENEVA - From Armenia to Zambia activists turned out by the thousands for World AIDS Day on Wednesday, singing in mighty cathedrals, lighting candles in city squares and playing sports.
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China for the first time introduces laws specifically targeting the spread of Aids, state media says.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil, one of the Latin  American countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, will hand  out a record 11 million condoms to prevent the spread of the  disease during its erotically charged Carnival festival when  casual sex rises.
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AIDS advocates and health workers on Wednesday marked World AIDS Day by focusing on gender inequalities that can lead to an increased risk of HIV infection among women and girls, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports (AP/Long Island Newsday, 12/1).
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See a roundup of the week's news and events, from World AIDS Day to Australian brush fires, Asian games, and more.
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The world marked AIDS Day on Wednesday,  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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Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. This annual global event is dedicated to remembering the victims of AIDS, learning more about the devastating effects of the disease and reaffirming the commitment to fight it.
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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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World AIDS Day today aims to celebrate progress made against the global epidemic that has killed 30 million in two decades and left 40 million more infected.
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This yearâs global celebration of World AIDS Day focuses on women and girls who form almost half of the estimated 37.5 million people living with the human immnunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS).
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AIDS advocates and health workers on Wednesday marked World AIDS Day by focusing on gender inequalities that can lead to an increased risk of HIV infection among women and girls.. Nearly half of the 37.2 million
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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
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China has halted a plan to distribute  free condoms on university campuses, quashing the AIDS  prevention effort only a week before World AIDS Day, state  media said Wednesday.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd, L) shakes hands with an AIDS patient in a Beijing hospital on Nov. 30, 2004.-- Xinhua. On the eve of the World AIDS Day, Chinese President Hu Jintao shook hands with AIDS patients