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/ 24 November 2004
A lack of antiretroviral drugs is the biggest problem facing HIV/Aids programmes in Africa, says Robert Colebunders, a Belgian researcher.
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/ 17 November 2004
Singapore will not sponsor a “publicity blitz” to promote condom use “out of respect” for residents who hold “conservative views”.
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/ 15 September 2004
The number of Aids cases in Japan is slowly increasing, and the number of HIV-positive people is estimated to be far higher than reported.
While most Latin American countries have not yet experienced large-scale HIV/Aids, recent trends suggest the it could reach pandemic proportions.
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has awarded Russia a two-year, $34,2- million grant for treatment.
On Monday Uganda became the latest African country to begin distributing free antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to HIV-positive people.
School fees are preventing vast numbers of Aids orphans from getting an education and improving their future prospects, a UN official said.
Botswana has said that criticism of its policy of routine HIV testing for people using public health services is hindering treatment efforts.
The US has approved the use of oral fluid samples with a rapid HIV test kit that provides screening results with more than 99% accuracy.
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/ 26 February 2004
Scientists have discovered a protein in monkeys that can block infection by the virus that causes Aids.
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/ 19 February 2004
The government of Botswana is offering voluntary HIV tests for anyone who goes to a medical clinic with a health problem.
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/ 12 February 2004
New HIV tests for pregnant women may prove crucial to the lives of five unborn babies whose mothers where unaware that they had the virus.
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/ 29 January 2004
Public-service announcements featuring three “jive-talking, gaffe-prone condoms” are airing up to 20 times a day on South African television.
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/ 15 January 2004
The Grand Seminaire de Montreal, a Catholic seminary, will this year begin requiring all men who apply to study to become priests to take an HIV test.
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/ 27 November 2003
About 30% of people living with HIV/Aids worldwide live in Southern Africa, an area that is home to just 2% of the world’s population.
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/ 6 November 2003
A new Californian law could mark the first step toward increasing access to medication that many Aids experts believe can prevent HIV infection.
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/ 30 October 2003
Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/Aids must be eradicated as a critical component of expanding access to treatment and care.
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/ 23 October 2003
A flexible new anti-Aids drug, Lexiva, has been approved by the United States’s Food and Drug Administration.
It is ordinary people who are casualties of the government’s denialist Aids policy.
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/ 5 February 2003
About 375 670 South Africans are expected to die from HIV/Aids this year, an increase of more than 30% from the estimated Aids-related deaths in 2000.
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/ 22 January 2003
A study of syphilis among homosexual men in New York City has found high rates of HIV infection, unprotected sex and recreational drug use.
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/ 25 December 2002
Aids is posing a serious threat to Kenya’s tourism sector because of the large number of visitors who come into the country without being screened.
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/ 12 December 2002
A village in the western Indian state of Maharashtra has made HIV/Aids tests compulsory for all prospective brides and grooms.
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/ 5 December 2002
Traditional healers are battling to get patients to go for follow-up tests after they have tested HIV-positive.
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/ 31 October 2002
China’s young are grossly unaware of how Aids is spread. According to a survey, many believe people can contract the disease from mosquito bites.
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/ 26 September 2002
Three million Aids deaths can be averted and more than 2,5-million HIV infections prevented by 2015 through voluntary testing.
United States researchers have made progress in developing an Aids vaccine that would be effective against a range of strains of HIV.
A newspaper quoted Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as saying that drugs used to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child are poisonous.
A New Zealand company said this week US authorities had approved extended trials of a new drug it claimed "gobbles up" the virus that causes Aids.
The Treatment Action Campaign wants to act against provinces that don’t want to roll out the programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV.
Last week we erroneously reported that the African National Congress called for HIV/Aids to be declared a notifiable disease.
Statistics South Africa is conducting a mortality study into ‘secondary’ causes of death in an attempt to assess the true impact of HIV/Aids.