Singapore Facing AIDS Epidemic -Health Ministry
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Singapore faces an AIDS epidemic, with the number of new infections diagnosed expected to hit a rate of 1,000 a year by 2010, a health official said.
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ISLAMABAD: Aid workers from around the world on Wednesday urged the United Nations and womenâs and religious groups to help combat HIV/AIDS and ensure that people affected by the disease were deeply involved in the fight against the pandemic.
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Governments must do more to ensure women and girls get treatment for HIV/AIDS, the United Nations health agency said Tuesday, the eve of World AIDS Day.
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By the time World Aids day has run its course an estimated 14,000 more people in the world will have become infected with HIV. Nearly 40 million people globally are living with the Aids virus
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New HIV infections among homosexual men are on the rise in Hong Kong and a government consultant warned on Wednesday that prevalence of the disease in this group could hit 30 percent by 2020 if nothing is done.
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China&#39;s HIV/AIDS epidemic has worsened and is now spreading dangerously into the general population, reported CCTV today, citing Chinese Ministry of Health and the United Nations AIDS office in China as the news source.
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Singapore reported more new AIDScases in the first 10 months of this year as compared with the same period of last year. According to local press reports on Wednesday night
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SINGAPORE  - Singapore will carry out HIV tests on pregnant women from December onwards as part of intensified measures against the rising number of new infections in the city-state, the Sunday Times reported.
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Health ministers, AIDS experts, industry and civil society representatives from across the EU and its eastern neighbours are meeting today in Vilnius to pledge action to counter a growing HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Nearly one in every four South African servicemen has contracted HIV/AIDS while the country&#39;s political parties urged the government to increase public spending and education to fight against the pandemic.
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Despite a spurt in international spending against AIDS, the epidemic will claim more than 3 million lives this year and is threatening the world&#39;s most populous nations, global health authorities warned Tuesday.
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(Singapore) A group that promotes AIDS awareness blasted a Singapore law that prohibits gay sex, saying it impedes efforts to educate homosexuals about the dangers of HIV transmission through unsafe sex.
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Singapore is facing a new AIDS epidemic, with the country&#39;s gay community being blamed by the conservative government. According to the Reuters news agency, new cases of HIV could hit more than 1,000 a year in the very near future.
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Despite facing an &quot;alarming AIDS epidemic,&quot; Singapore will not go on a publicity blitz to promote condom use out of respect for residents who hold conservative views on sexual behaviour, a minister said.
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The Asia-Pacific region risks an &quot;AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa&#39;s&quot; unless national governments and regional institutions &quot;step up&quot; efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Kathleen Cravero said on Wednesday in Manila
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India health officials are alarmed by growing HIV/Aids infection rates in two key northern states.
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Reggae stars using homophobic lyrics are stoking the spread of HIV, a UK minister is warning in the Caribbean. International Development Minister Gareth Thomas fears that discrimination against homosexuals is deterring people from being tested for HIV.