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India should be included in Bush's AIDS plan: US think tank
NEW DELHI (AFP) Mar 02, 2004
With 4.58 million people living with HIV/AIDS, second only to South Africa with five million, India is a fit case for US President George W. Bush's "emergency plan" for AIDS relief, a Washington-based private think tank said Tuesday.

Only 10 percent of China's HIV/AIDS cases know they have disease: officials
BEIJING (AFP) Mar 02, 2004
Just 10 percent of China's HIV-AIDS cases know they have the disease, the US Center for Disease Control and Preventionsaid Tuesday as it launched a 15-million-dollar campaign to help fight the crisis.

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US specialists train Vietnamese doctors in HIV/AIDS care
HANOI (AFP) Mar 02, 2004
American HIV/AIDS specialists Tuesday began a series of training courses in Vietnam for health care workers as part of a US-government funded project.

US launches 15 million-dollar program to fight HIV/AIDS in China
BEIJING (AFP) Mar 02, 2004
Just 10 percent of China's HIV-AIDS cases know they have the disease, the US Center for Disease Control and Preventionsaid Tuesday as it launched a 15 million dollar campaign to help fight the crisis.

UN, ministers, to assess progress in fighting AIDS
LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (AFP) Mar 02, 2004
The heads of nine UN agencies and ministers from around 20 African countries will meet from Wednesday to Friday in Livingstone, Zambia, to assess progress in the battle against AIDS.

AIDS, drought and war cause food shortages in half of Africa
ROME (AFP) Mar 01, 2004
Drought, AIDS and conflict have combined to create serious food shortages in half the countries in Africa, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report published Monday.

Nigeria seeks private sector support to fight AIDS
LAGOS (AFP) Feb 27, 2004
Nigeria is seeking private sector support in its battle to prevent HIV/AIDS sapping the economic lifeblood of Africa's most populous nation, officials said Friday.

Former nurse, S. African health minister defend eccentric AIDS diet
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) Feb 27, 2004
A former nurse who claims she inspired South Africa's Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's prescription of an eccentric diet for HIV/AIDS sufferers told a leading daily on Friday that she was no quack.

Rights watchdog slams torture "epidemic" in Egypt
NEW YORK (AFP) Feb 26, 2004
New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday slammed Egypt's record on torture in a special report that documented 17 deaths in detention over a two-year period.

Taiwan law to ask hotels, sauna parlors to offer condoms
TAIPEI (AFP) Feb 26, 2004
All hotels and sauna parlors in Taiwan must make condoms available to their customers in the island's latest attempt to curb the spread of AIDS, a cabinet official said Thursday.

Researchers identify protein that blocks AIDS replication in monkeys
 WASHINGTON (AFP) Feb 26, 2004
Researchers on Wednesday said they identified a protein able to block the replication of the HIV virus in monkeys, a key discovery that sheds light on halting the spread of AIDS among humans.

India needs to defuse ticking AIDS bomb, sex workers told
CALCUTTA, India (AFP) Feb 25, 2004
India must take swift action against HIV/AIDS by educating its population about the disease in order to prevent infection levels skyrocketing, Indian officials said at a conference Wednesday.

Vaccine campaign in Liberia amid fears of yellow fever epidemic
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Feb 25, 2004
Health agencies will launch a vaccination drive in Liberia this week to fight an outbreak of yellow fever, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Hong Kong HIV infections fall 12 percent in 2003
HONG KONG (AFP) Feb 24, 2004
The government said Tuesday the number of new HIV cases in Hong Kong fell 12 percent in 2003.

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