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BREAKING NEWS Skeletons in the closet prove dangerous for bold new Chinese press BEIJING (AFP) Mar 24, 2004 China's increasingly profit-driven press may be working to shed its role as a propaganda tool, but the move away from the party line risks the wrath of the country's political machine and heavy punishments for new media barons. Southern Africa taking steps to fight terrorism, AIDS: official GABORONE (AFP) Mar 22, 2004 Southern Africa is gearing up to face the challenge of terrorism and AIDS, a top official said Monday in an address to nearly 1,000 civil activists from some 100 countries attending a global conference in Botswana to seek solutions to pressing international problems. |
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International AIDS meet in Thailand to focus on drugs access: organisers BANGKOK (AFP) Mar 22, 2004 A global meeting on HIV-AIDS to be held in Thailand in July is expected to be the largest yet and will focus on giving millions of sufferers access to drugs, organisers said Monday. UN AIDS chief not optimistic about vaccine prospects SYDNEY (AFP) Mar 22, 2004 An HIV vaccine is not likely to be developed in the next decade, the head of the UN's AIDS prevention program said Monday, adding that any breakthrough would be the result of a long process of trial and error. China, India need to do more to prevent AIDS: US health secretary TOKYO (AFP) Mar 22, 2004 The Chinese and Indian governments need to do more to prevent AIDS as the epidemic's spread in the populous nations could trigger social and economic disaster throughout Asia, the US health secretary said Monday. UN says Pacific faces new wave of HIV, with PNG on the brink of epidemic SYDNEY (AFP) Mar 22, 2004 The head of the UN's AIDS prevention program warned Pacific nations on Monday that they faced a new wave of HIV infection, with Papua New Guinea requiring urgent action to avoid going "the African way". UN envoy slams Swaziland for ignoring AIDS timebomb MBABANE (AFP) Mar 21, 2004 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy for HIV and AIDS in Africa has slammed authorities for turning a blind eye to the pandemic, resulting in a record 40 percent prevalence rate, state radio said Sunday. UN envoy slams Swaziland for ignoring AIDS timebomb MBABANE (AFP) Mar 21, 2004 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy for HIV and AIDS in Africa has slammed authorities for turning a blind eye to the pandemic, resulting in a record 40 percent prevalence rate, state radio said Sunday. |
Swaziland now tops the world in HIV/AIDS infection rates: UN official LOZITHA, Swaziland (AFP) Mar 19, 2004 Swaziland now has the world's highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate affecting about 40 percent of its people, an envoy of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was quoted as saying by the state-run Radio Swaziland on Friday. WFP delivers food to Myanmar AIDS sufferers YANGON (AFP) Mar 19, 2004 The UN World Food Programme on Friday began delivering food supplies for the first time to HIV/AIDS patients in Myanmar, which has one of Asia's highest infection rates, the WFP said. African bushmeat could trigger another AIDS-style epidemic PARIS (AFP) Mar 19, 2004 Many Africans who hunt, butcher or sell apes and monkeys for food may have been infected with a little-known retrovirus, a scenario that chillingly recalls how AIDS leapt to humans from other primates. Nigerian capital has highest HIV/AIDS prevalence in the country: official LAGOS (AFP) Mar 18, 2004 Abuja, the Nigerian capital, has the highest incidence of cases of HIV/AIDS in the country, authorities in the city said, according to an official statement released Thursday. Italy begins human testing of AIDS vaccine ROME (AFP) Mar 17, 2004 Clinical testing on humans has begun in Italy of a possible vaccine against AIDS, the Italian National Institute of Healthsaid Wednesday. Tanzania is running out of condoms: official DAR ES SALAAM (AFP) Mar 17, 2004 Tanzania's National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) has called for increased donor assistance to replenish stocks of condoms, saying a looming shortage could adversely affect campaigns against HIV/AIDS. |
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