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BREAKING NEWS Scientists to test gels in Africa that could prevent HIV: BBC LONDON (AFP) Mar 27, 2004 British scientists are to launch trials in five African countries for special new gels that may help prevent the transmission of the HIV virus, the BBC reported on Saturday. FDA greenlights rapid HIV/AIDS detection test WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 27, 2004 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved marketing a rapid oral test for HIV/AIDS, calling it an alternative for people averse to blood testing. |
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Fructose sweetener eyed as cause of US obesity epidemic: study WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 25, 2004 A corn sweetener that has been used to sweeten food and soft drinks since the 1970s may be partly to blame for the United States' galloping obesity epidemic, US researchers said Thursday. Greater effort needed by China to curb AIDS: UN BEIJING (AFP) Mar 25, 2004 China will have to step up its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, particularly at the local level, if it is to reverse the spread of the pandemic by 2015, the United Nations said in a report Thursday. AIDS cases rising in Germany BERLIN (AFP) Mar 24, 2004 The number of AIDS cases in Germany is on the rise because people are having more unprotected sex, a study by the Robert Koch institute for infectious diseases released Wednesday showed. Poor nations fleeced by 'epidemic' of corruption in oil and mining: study LONDON (AFP) Mar 24, 2004 A "global epidemic of financial scandal" has seen billions of dollars in oil and mining revenues skimmed off by corrupt officials in some of the world's poorest countries, a British-based campaign group charged on Wednesday. India clears 1.5-billion-dollar loan to fight AIDS in poor countries: report NEW DELHI (AFP) Mar 24, 2004 India's finance ministry has cleared a 1.5- billion-dollar soft loan package to help people affected by HIV/AIDS in 27 low-income countries, a report said Wednesday. 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. 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. |
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