Bangladeshi government announces plans for first-ever condom factory
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The Bangladeshi government plans to set up the country's first-ever condom plant as part of a drive to combat AIDS and reduce the amount of foreign exchange spent on importing contraceptive devices.
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Ministers will unveil plans to give health workers are to be given more protection against attacks in communities.
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China for the first time introduces laws specifically targeting the spread of Aids, state media says.
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Singapore will encourage condom use by gays and men who pay for sex but will stop short of a high-profile campaign because it might encourage casual sex among youths, a senior official said.
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Bangladesh has completed an emergency  vaccination drive to immunize two million children against  polio in a southeastern region close to Myanmar, officials said  on Sunday.
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India, home to the world's  second-largest HIV population after South Africa, began its  first ever human trials of a new vaccine against the deadly  virus Monday, the health minister said.
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New rules requiring that condoms be tested before and after shipment to Uganda have caused a shortage of the rubber prophylactic, which the east African country credits for curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, a senior health ministry official said.
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The Scottish government will outline its new plans to deal with sex offenders.
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The Philippine Department of Health Monday said that it has opened the first state-owned technologically equipped isolation facility for highly contagious and infectious diseases
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The government has set out its action plan for tackling the rise in tuberculosis cases.
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government said all pregnant women would be screened for HIV/AIDS to stem a rise in new infections. controlled city-state, where the number of new HIV infections reached a record high this year.
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Chinese health authorities have pledged to do more to prevent babies being infected by their mothers with the HIV virus during delivery.
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AIDS-aware Ugandans, who use about 250,000 condoms a day, face a shortage of the product after the government introduced new condom tests likely to cut supply over the festive season, the Health Ministry on Friday.
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Measures aimed at stopping the threat of tuberculosis (TB) will be pioneered at a new research centre in Latvia.
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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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Impoverished Madagascar is to distribute 15 million free condoms next year to promote safe sex and halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, officials said Tuesday.
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India plans to recruit one young man   and woman from every large village in the country to over the   next five years teach their peers about safe sex and HIV, a   health official said on Wednesday.