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WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- Leaders of the G8 nations meeting in Germany have pledged to spend $60bn fighting Aids, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa. Officials said half of that amount would come from the United States. On the final day of their summit, G8 leaders also commi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Apr 13, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that people with the AIDS virus should not be allowed to migrate to Australia, and that the government was investigating whether it could tighten existing restrictions. The comments triggered anger among AIDS work.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 6:07pm neoform

CNN -- At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication -- a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake s.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 4:54pm neoform

BBC News -- The head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique has told the BBC he believes some European-made condoms are infected with HIV deliberately. Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio claimed some anti-retroviral drugs were also infected "in order to finish quic.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 9:16am neoform

BBC News -- The number of people living with HIV/Aids in India is around half of previous official estimates, at between 2-3.1 million people, new figures say. The UN-backed government estimates are sharply lower than earlier figures, the health minister announced.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 10:51am neoform

CNN -- The leaders of the world's richest nations on Friday agreed a $60 billion pledge to fight diseases such as AIDS in Africa and restated promises to double development spending on the continent. The leaders held their joint session on the last day of the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 10:51am neoform

Al Jazeera -- G8 countries had wrangled late into Thursday night about specifics on aid for Africa.New money They were expected broadly to recommit themselves to pledges made at a 2005 summit in Scotland when they said they would double development funding by 2010... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 3:41pm neoform

BBC News -- South African Aids experts have called for a mass circumcision programme after studies showed it reduced the rate of HIV infection by up to 60%. Professor Alan Whiteside said all boys born in public hospitals should be offered the operation. "It is.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 12:01pm neoform

News.com.au -- A GAY gang that allegedly raped victims lured on the internet, drugged them and infected them with the AIDS virus has shocked the Netherlands and raised questions over its liberal sex culture. A date rape drug known as "Easy Lay" and ecstasy were alleged.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 1:32am neoform

Washington Post -- The young and hip at ground zero of the AIDS epidemic meet, drink and pair off under the knowing gaze of bartender Brian Khumalo. Sometimes they first buy a three-pack of condoms from the box he keeps by the liquor, sometimes not. Night after night the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 10:15pm neoform

New York Times -- A retired Chinese doctor acclaimed for helping AIDS sufferers has been placed under house arrest, to stop her from traveling to an awards ceremony in the United States held by a nonprofit group connected to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a friend of the doc.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 3:48pm neoform

Ynet News -- The Iranian news agency said an upcoming dramatic announcement on Iran's nuclear "rights" would be made on February 11. The report was accompanied by a series of announcements heralding alleged Iranian technological and medical breakthroughs, including.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 10:30am neoform

BBC News -- Mtondia, a small village in Kilifi district on the Kenyan coast is now considered a cursed village as so many of its young girls are either pregnant or have children... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 8:40am neoform

New Scientist -- Tens of thousands of people being treated for AIDS will suffer if Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis succeeds in changing India's patent law, the humanitarian agency Medecins Sans Frontieres warned on Monday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 22, 2006 @ 8:30am neoform

New York Times -- The AIDS pandemic is growing in all areas of the world, with worrisome signs of resurgence in some countries that were trumpeted as successes in combating the disease, the United Nations said yesterday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 20, 2006 @ 8:47am neoform

Esquire -- At just twenty-six, economist Emily Oster may have the highest controversies-generated-to-years-in-academia ratio of anyone in her field. That's because, as a Ph.D. student at Harvard, she chose to hop the fence and explore a topic already claimed by doc.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Nov 12, 2006 @ 2:57pm neoform

CBS News -- AIDS made Marie Lourdes Israel so sick she could barely move her bowed, stick-thin body. The medicine almost killed her... Read More