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 | World Cup 'inspires hope, confidence among African nations' | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The just-ended FIFA World Cup, held in Africa for the f
irst time ever,
has inspired hope and confidence among African nations that they have the capaci
ty to deal with the
continent's challenges of development, according to African Union Commissioner f
or Social Affairs
Bience Gawanas.
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| Global Funds, partners tackle HIV/AIDS scourge with US$ 150m | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Global Fund’s largest private-sector contributor, PRODUCT-RED, has approved a funding of US$ 150 million to support Global Fund HIV and AIDS programmes in Rwanda, Lesotho, Swaziland, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa, the Global Fund announced on Tuesday.
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| HRW to Uganda: Remove discriminatory provisions from HIV/AIDS bill | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Uganda’s parliament should amend a proposed law on HIV/AIDS to remove punitive and discriminatory provisions and to ensure that the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS are protected, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday, after the controversial bill was introduced.
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| US, Tanzania launch medication assisted therapy for drug users | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The United States in collaboration with the Tanzanian government Monday announced the establishment of the first Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) programme for drug users in sub-Saharan Africa, a crucial part of HIV control that allows addicts to return to a regular, productive and healthier life.
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| US double financial aid to fight endemic diseases in Angola | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The United States assistance to Angola in 2010
has increased from US$ 18 million to US$ 32 million per year for the
fight against malaria while for the HIV/AIDS it reached US$ 17 million
from the previous US$ 7 million, the US ambassador to the country, Dan
Mozena, said Wednesday.
05/05/2010 full text... |
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| Global Fund Board confirms new funding round for HIV/AIDS | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria will, on 20 May, launch another round of
proposals which could be key for countries to continue making progress
towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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| UN agencies hold conference on HIV prevention in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The United Nations Development Fund For Women
(UNIFEM),in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), has concluded arrangements to hold a conference on HIV Prevention
and Cultural Challenges for women in Nigeria, organizers said in a
statement here.
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| International Military HIV/AIDS Conference opens in Tanzania | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Government leaders must understand the challeng
e posed by HIV/AIDS to every nation's security, and then act to overcome that ch
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llenge, US Ambassador to Tanzania, Alfonso E. Lenhardt, said Monday at the openi
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g of the 2010 International Military HIV/AIDS Conference in Arusha, Tanzania.
12/04/2010 full text... |
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| Libya, UNDP sign agreement on AIDS prevention | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre for the Prevention and
Control of Transmitted and Endemic Diseases and the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement for the implementation of a project ai
med
at curbing the transmission of AIDS.
31/03/2010 full text... |
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| 86 Nigerian technical aids corps members arrive Gambia | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Head of Chancery, Nigerian High Commission in the Gambia
, Mr. Obase B. Okongor, has confirmed the arrival of the 2010 first batch of the
Nigerian Technical Service team on a technical mission support to The Gambia in
various fields, ranging from education, health, agriculture and others.
29/03/2010 full text... |
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| Donors assess Global Fund needs ahead of New York conference | | New York, US (PANA) - Donors to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria gathered in the Netherlands on Wednesday for a two-day meeting to assess
funding needs for the 2011-2013 period, ahead of a pledging conference at UN the
headquarters in New York in October.
25/03/2010 full text... |
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| Over 100,000 women may be infected with HIV/AIDS | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - An Angolan medical doctor said on Friday that at least
109,376 Angolan women aged over 15 years and above may be infected with HIV/
AIDS, with an estimated prevalence rate of 3.1 per cent in pregnant women.
19/03/2010 full text... |
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| 16,000 people receiving ARV treatment in Rwanda | | Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - About 16,080 people, including 7,210 women and 8,870 men are receiving anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in Rwanda, while only half of children HIV-positive are getting triple therapy to withstand the pandemic, official sources in Kigali told PANA Friday.
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| AIDS programme official released on bail in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA)- The former Executive Secretary of Mauritania's National Programme to Fight HIV/AIDS, Dr. Abdallahi Ould Horma, who had been in detention with some of his colleagues since October 2009 for embezzlement, was released on bail by the court on Thursday, judicial sources told PANA.
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| Japanese company commits US$ 10m to fight HIV/AID 2010-2019 | | Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. (Takeda), Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, on Wednesday announced a huge financial commitment to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa to the tune of 100,000,000 (approximately US$ 1 million) annually for the period 2010-2019.
18/03/2010 full text... |
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| Civil society groups demand more commitment in AIDS war | | Lisbon, Portugal (PANA) - Civil society associations involved in the fight again
st HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases within the Portuguese Speaking Com
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unity (PLP) have appealed to their respective governments for more assistance in
the war against the virus.
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| Benghazi hosts int'l conference on fight against AIDS | | Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - An international conference on AIDS, organized by the C
entre for Endemic Diseases and Immunology of Benghazi, in collaboration with the
Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Libya, began Monday
at the Medical Centre of Bengahazi (1,050 kilometres East of Tripoli).
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| Malawi to put 500,000 on ARVs in 2010 | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi plans to increase the number of HIV positive pe
ople on the national life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARVs) programme from 270,0
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0 to 500,000 in 2010, Vice-President Joyce Banda has disclosed.
15/02/2010 full text... |
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| France's first Lady to visit Benin Tuesday | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Carla Bruni Sarkozy, France's first lady and ambassador
of the world
fund against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, is expected in Cotonou, the capital
of Benin Republic, on Tuesday for a two-day working visit.
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| Gambian president celebrates HIV/AIDS treatment Programme | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, has said the thir
d anniversary of his Presidential Treatment Programme following his controversi
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l â?HIV/AIDS cure discoveryâ?, will be held 17 January at his native village of
Kanilai, which lies about 100 km South/East of Banjul City, PANA reported Tuesd
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y.
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| 2,000 AIDS activists for CAN 2010 | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Some 2,000 AIDS activists will use the occasion of the 2
010 Africa Cup of
Nations opening in Angola Sunday to carry out awareness campaign about the disea
se.
08/01/2010 full text... |
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| Global fund grants 19b F CFA to Mali against AIDS | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed
an agreement in Bamako totalling about 19 billion F CFA (9.82 million
euros) as part of the implementation of the National Strategic Framework
(CSN) to fight AIDS over the period 2006-2012.
05/01/2010 full text... |
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| Global fund grants 91b F CFA to Mali against AIDS | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed an
agreement in Bamako totalling about 91 billion F CFA (9.82 million euros) as
part of the implementation of the National Strategic Framework (CSN) to fight
AIDS over the period 6002-.0102
The programme, whose beneficiaries are the Supreme National Aids Control
Council in Mali and the "Groupe Pivot", a civil society organisation, will
contribute to the strengthening of the prevention of sexual transmission in
vulnerable groups.
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| Global fund grants 19b F CFA to Mali against AIDS | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed an agr
eement in Bamako
totalling about 19 billion F CFA (28.9 million euros) as part of the implementat
ion of the National Strategic Framework (CSN) to fight AIDS over the period
2006-2010.
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| Tanzania withdraws toxic ARV drug | | Dar es salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania has started withdrawing an anti-retovi
ral drug, Stavudine, used in treatment of HIV following
reports of its adverse side effects on patients, the Ministry of Health and Soci
al Welfare said Wednesday.
30/12/2009 full text... |
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| Botched microbicide trial scares Ugandans from Thai vaccine | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - After learning that the largest international clinical
trial involving 9,385 women in four African countries into preventative HIV gel
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ailed, with participants getting infected at the same rate as out of the experim
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nt, the Ugandan public is now resentful to enroll for any further trial other th
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n that aimed at curing the dreadful disease.
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| Uganda institute to host African AIDS vaccine programme | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), based in En
tebbe, Uganda, was recommended
to host the Secretariat of the African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP), after a ve
ry close competition involving a total of
eight applicant institutions located in seven countries in Africa.
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| Kenyan govt. in dilemma over toxic HIV drug | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyaâ?s health authorities are in a dilemma over the c
ontinued use of a popular life-prolonging drug to sustain the lives of people li
v
ing with HIV/AIDS, the Sunday Nation newspaper reported.
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| Ugandans salute US for lifting travel ban on HIV-positive persons | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Violet Nalubwama was denied visa to the US for more tha
n three times due to her HIV/AIDS status, an act that left her stigmatized, but
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pon hearing the news that the Barrack Obama-led administration is poised to lift
the decades-old ban on HIV-positive
visitors from abroad, she expressed gratitude to God.
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| New HIV infections increase in Zambia | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia has recorded an increase in new HIV infections, w
ith the figure rising from 70,000 in 2007 to 82,000 this year, Health Minister K
a
pembwa Simbao disclosed here.
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| Senegal lays emphasis on AIDS prevention among youths | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese minister of health, prevention and public
hygiene, Mrs Thérèse Coumba Diop, on Tuesday called on organisations of HIV/AI
DS control to
further invest in the prevention of new infections among adolescents and youths.
01/12/2009 full text... |
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| Libya marks World AIDS Day | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Use of contaminated syringes by drug users
remains the main
source of HIV/AIDS infection in Libya, official sources in Tripoli
said on Tuesday.
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| World AIDS Day: More men are HIV/AIDS positive in Cape-Verde | | Praia, Cape-Verde (PANA) - The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Cape- Verde is higher
among men (1.1%) than women (0.4%), as compared to the usual trend of the
pandemic's evolution on the African continent where more women are infected,
the coordinating committee for AIDS control (CCAC) in Cape Verde told
PANA on Tuesday.
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| Gambia commemorates World AIDS Day | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian Minister for Health and Social Welfare
Baboucarr Gaye said on Tuesday that the country was fulfiling its
promise at the 2006 United Nations high level meeting on HIV and AIDS
to provide universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support
for patients of the pandemic by 2010.
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| Pretoria shifts HIV/AIDS policies | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government on
Tuesday announced that it will provide treatment for all HIV-positive
babies in a significant policy shift for the country which has been
ravaged by the pandemic.
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| World AIDS Day: Protest disrupts observance in Nigeria | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A protest by the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS
(NEPWHAN) disrupted the observance of the World AIDS Day in Nigeria's capital ci
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y of Abuja Tuesday
Chanting protest songs, the NEPWHAN members carried a mock coffin with the name
of the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), P
r
of. John Idoko inscribed on it, while others carried placards.
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| World AIDS Day: Fear of rising gay infections in Kenya | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya marked the World AIDS Day Tuesday amid a renewed s
tress in the war against the pandemic,
complicated by the rise in the number of gay couples and a massive decline in th
e sources of external funding for fighting the disease.
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| HIV prevalence drops in Congo | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese Health Minister Georges Moyen announced
Tuesday in Brazzaville that the HIV prevalence in his country had dropped from
4.1% in 2003 to 3.2% in 2009.
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| World AIDS Day: UNDP restates commitment to HIV/AIDS fight | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP), a key actor in the gl
obal efforts to stem HIV/AIDS,
has restated its commitment to supporting countries and communities in their fig
ht against the pandemic
''With just six years left to reach the 2015 target date for achieving the Mille
nnium Development Goals, we have learned that effective
action on HIV/AIDS is essential to the human rights based and broader developmen
t agenda. UNDP is committed to supporting countries
and communities in these efforts, said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, in her me
ssage to mark the World AIDS Day Tuesday.
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| SA to unveil new strategy against AIDS | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma was due
to address the nation Tuesday on
his government's new plans to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as part of
activities marking the World AIDS Day, observed
annually on 1 Dec, the government said.
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| World AIDS Day: Sambo tasks health workers on pry HIV prevention | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional
Director for Africa, Dr Luis
Sambo, has called on health workers at all levels to play a greater role in
primary HIV prevention and encourage
safe sex behaviour - abstinence, delay of age at first sexual intercourse,
faithfulness and correct and consistent
condom use - to stem the incidence of HIV/AIDS in the African Region.
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| Zimbabwe gets US$180m for AIDS | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Health authorities in Zimbabwe said Wednesday the coun
try would get US$180 million from the Global Fund to fight HIV and AIDS, tubercu
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osis and malaria.
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| UNFPA gives Congo 5.6 million condoms | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The representative of the UN Fund for the Population
(UNFPA) in Congo, David Lawson, on Thursday presented the National Council of t
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e Fight against HIV/AIDS (CNLS) ith 5.6 million male and female condoms.
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| African states face new health catastrophe as GF plans budget cuts | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A global campaign is underway to urge US President Barac
k Obama to avert a looming health catastrophe that African nations face as a res
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lt of a 15 per cent budget cut, which could deny each African state as much as 1
million mosquito-bed nets a year, activists said here Thursday, ahead of a key m
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eting on future funding.
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| Jammeh resumes HIV/AIDS treatment programme | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will resume his 'contro
versial treatment programme' for carriers of the HIV/AIDS with a new batch of pa
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ients whose ailments have reached the crisis point, Dr. Tamsir Mbowe, the Direct
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r General of the â?Presidential Treatment Programmeâ? told pro-government newsp
apers on Tuesday.
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| People Living with HIV/AIDS protest in Nouakchott | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Some 50 People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) on W
ednesday staged a sit-in at the World Bank office in Nouakchott to protest again
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t the bank's decision to stop the financing of an HIV/AIDS project in Mauritania
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| '4 million people on ART therapy in low, middle income nations' | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 4 million people in low and middle income coun
tries were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the close of 2008,
representing a 36% increase in one year and a 10-fold increase over five years,
according to a new report released Wednesday by the World Health
OrganiSation (WHO), the UNICEF and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AID
S (UNAIDS).
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| Germany boosts HIV/AIDS prevention within ECOWAS | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS and the Federal Republic of Germany have further
deepened their cooperation through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) to support ECOWAS member states on reproductive health and HIV-AIDS preven
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ion.
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| US, Angola sign pact to fight HIV/AIDS | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Angol
an Minister of External Relations Assunção Afonso dos Anjos Monday
signed the â?Partnership Framework between the Government of the Republic of An
gola and the Government of the United States of America to Combat
HIV/AIDS for 2009 to 2013.â?
The Partnership Framework provides a five-year joint strategic plan for cooperat
ion among the Government of Angola, the U.S. Government, and other stakeholders
to support achievement of the goals of Angolaâ?s HIV National Strategic Plan fo
r 2007-2010.
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| Senegal calls for joint efforts in fighting AIDS | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese Prime Minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye Thursd
ay called on its development partners, including the civil society groups, to
join the government in its efforts to "deal a deadly blow" to HIV/AIDS.
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| Togo gets 88 billion FCFA to fight AIDS | | Lomé, Togo (PANA) – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis and
the Togolese government on Thursday signed a five-year financing agreement in Lo
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é for US$176.69 million, or about 88 billion FCFA.
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| UNAIDS chief urges renewed focus on HIV cure | | Sirte, Libya (PANA) - Researchers and policy makers must refocus their attention
to finding a cure for HIV/AIDS to safeguard the future of mothers and the unbor
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children, 300,000 of whom are infected in Africa every year, a top UN official
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aid here Thursday.
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| UNAIDS chief urges renewed focus on HIV cure | | Sirte, Libya (PANA) - Researchers and policymakers must refocus their attention
on finding a cure for
HIV/AIDS to safeguard the future of mothers and the unborn children, 300,000 of
whom are infected in
Africa every year, a top UN official said here.
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| Ban seeks more commitments to HIV/AIDS battle | | New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that economic
crisis should
not be an excuse for UN member states to abandon commitment to the fight against
HIV and AIDS, but
should rather be ''an impetus'' to make the right investments that will yield be
nefits for generations to
come.
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| Citizens endorse radical plan to fight HIV/AIDS | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A summit attended by people living with AIDS, AIDS commi
ssioners, government representatives, development organisations and the UN has e
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dorsed a radical plan to end Aids especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, organizers s
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id here Monday.
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