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No 'amen' For Condoms - St. Petersburg Times
pastor w. james favorite of beulah baptist institutional church in tampa wants to form a coalition of pastors for an hiv prevention program with screening and counseling services. but churches are loath to recommend the use of condoms. tampa ...
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Hiv/aids Aims To Raise Awareness Among Latinos
dixon - the solano county health and social services department on saturday will hold its first large hiv/aids event that will target the area's latino community. the county recognized the need for more hiv/aids awareness in the latino community, said areli morales, health
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Sierra Leone's National Aids Secretariat Director Urges Reporters To Take Active Role In Addressing Hiv/aids Issues
sierra leone's hiv/aids reporters association should increase its role in addressing the country's hiv/aids epidemic, brima kargbo, director of the national aids secretariat, said during the recent hara inaugural meeting, the concord times/allafrica.com reports.
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Zambian Aids Victims Say Left In Dark Ahead Of Poll - International Herald Tribune
john kabamba has to walk 20 kilometres to a clinic for aids therapy and he has no idea how candidates in zambia's presidential election would ease the suffering of about one million ravaged by hiv/aids. zambians complain that the two main contenders ...
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Support Groups - Daily Star
aa celebrant, 8 p.m., calvary hill retreat center, 290 chestnut st. for info: aa hot line, (888) 2b-sober. southern tier aids program information on aids education, support services; free, anonymous hiv testing, (800) 333-0892 or 432-6654. also ...
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Nepal Faces Numerous Challenges In Achieving Hiv/aids Millennium Development Goal, Inter Press Service Reports
a large gap between reported and estimated hiv/aids cases in nepal makes achieving a target in the united nations millennium development goals of halting and reversing the spread of hiv/aids by 2015 a "far-fetched dream," inter press service reports.
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Program In Vietnam Trains Haircutters To Provide Hiv/aids Information To Clients
sidewalk haircutters in the vietnamese city of hai phong are volunteering as hiv/aids consultants as part of a program that aims to curb the spread of the disease, vns/viet nam news reports.
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Doctors Transplant Hiv+ Organ - Times Of India
the operations, which took place in late september at the groote schuur hospital, where christiaan barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant, were not made public until it was clear they had been successful, south africa’s mail ...
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New Merck Hiv Drug Works In Untreated Patients - Reuters
washington (reuters) - a new class of hiv drugs can help control the virus in untreated patients, researchers reported on sunday. merck and co. hopes the findings will open a new market for its drug isentress, the first drug on the market in a new ...
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Nigeria: First Lady Woos Citizens On Fight Against Hiv/aids
first lady, mrs turai yar'auda has urged nigerians to support the fight against hiv/aids for the country's survival.
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Rwanda: Teens Ask Parents To Talk About Hiv/aids
teens gathered at islamic center nyamirambo, a city suburb for a one day anti-aids competition organised by the international organisation right to play on tuesday, asked their parents to talk about issues surrounding hiv/aids in their homes.
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Nepal Faces Numerous Challenges In Achieving Hiv/aids Millennium ... - Medical News Today
a large gap between reported and estimated hiv/aids cases in nepal makes achieving a target in the united nations millennium development goals of halting and reversing the spread of hiv/aids by 2015 a "far-fetched dream," inter press service reports ...
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Trade-africa: Art Creating Hope In The Midst Of Death And Disease - Inter Press Service
ceramic artist mickey chonco with one of the artworks he created at the ardmore ceramic studio in kwazulu-natal. credit: ardmore ceramic studio cape town, sep 25 (ips) - zulu artists working at the ardmore ceramic studio in south africa’s coastal ...
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South Africa: Govt, Institutions Adopt Policy To Prevent Hiv, Aids Among Students
the minister of education naledi pandor and 23 public higher education institutions have adopted a policy which will guide schools and tertiary institutions to improve their current hiv and aids prevention programmes.
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Nearly 60,000 Patients Receive Free Hiv/aids Treatment
free hiv/aids treatment in china has achieved substantial progress, with 58,000 patients having received treatment. at present, there are 41,700 patients receiving treatment, which represents 20 percent of the total number of diagnosed hiv-positive people, said wang longde, president of china preventive medicine association and the former deputy minister of health at a news conference held by ...
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Media And Hiv/aids Among Youths In Nigeria - Vanguard
youths are stakeholders in the future of every society. to be able to live up to this responsibility, they must be empowered with basic life skills of which include being media literate. media literacy is the ability to process information that is ...
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Earlier Hiv Treatment Lengthens Lives, Study Finds (update1) - Bloomberg
oct. 26 (bloomberg) -- hiv-infected patients who began treatment earlier than is normally recommended lived longer than those who underwent the standard regimen, a study found. patients who waited for levels of their immune cells to fall below ...
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Hiv/aids Discrimination Rife In China, Finds Survey
new delhi, oct 31 : most adults discriminate against hiv/aids patients, shows a survey based on six major cities in china.
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Hiv/aids Prejudice Still Rife, Study Says
a survey taken in six major cities in china shows that most adults discriminate against hiv/aids sufferers. the survey, from february to march, was conducted by renmin university of china with financial and technical support from unaids. the survey covered 6,000 people and 30 percent said children suffering from hiv/aids should not be allowed to attend school, 65 percent were not willing to stay ...
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Sierra Leone's National Aids Secretariat Director Urges Reporters To ... - Medical News Today
sierra leone's hiv/aids reporters association should increase its role in addressing the country's hiv/aids epidemic, brima kargbo, director of the national aids secretariat, said during the recent hara inaugural meeting, the concord times/allafrica ...
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