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| AIDS | | Last Updated 12/11/2009 15:17:00 |
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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.
12/11/2009 full text... |
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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.
05/11/2009 full text... |
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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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14/10/2009 full text... |
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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).
30/09/2009 full text... |
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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.
10/09/2009 full text... |
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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.
10/08/2009 full text... |
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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.
31/07/2009 full text... |
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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.
17/07/2009 full text... |
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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.
02/07/2009 full text... |
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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.
02/07/2009 full text... |
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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.
17/06/2009 full text... |
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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.
08/06/2009 full text... |
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| WB lends Mali US$6m for HIV/AIDS control | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The World Bank Board Thursday approved a US$6-million
loan to Mali as additional funding for the country's Multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS Con
trol Project (MAP), the World Bank said in a statement made available to PANA Fr
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day in Bamako.
22/05/2009 full text... |
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| Nigeria moves to protect PLWAs from discrimination | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has sent a bill to th
e national assembly (parliament) which, if passed into law, will make it an offe
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ce to discriminate against any person on the grounds of actual or perceived HIV
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tatus.
15/05/2009 full text... |
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| Global Fund strengthens efforts to prevent corruption | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
announced Friday that it would issue a code of conduct within the coming weeks f
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r all suppliers of goods and services in an effort to prevent, detect and sancti
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n anyone involved in misuse of its financing.
01/05/2009 full text... |
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| Global Fund strengthens efforts to prevent corruption | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
announced Friday that it will issue a code of conduct for all suppliers of goods
and services in an effort to prevent,
detect and sanction anyone involved in misuse of its financing.
01/05/2009 full text... |
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| Zambia scales up HIV/AIDS prevention programmes | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Zambian government said it would target over 3 milli
on people, in particular pregnant women and HIV-exposed children, under the prog
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amme to be administered from the 15 million Canadian dollars grant committed to
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he scaling up of the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) s
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rvices in nine African countries with high
prevalence rates.
22/04/2009 full text... |
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| Emmanuel Adebayor named UN Ambassador on AIDS | | Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togolese international football star, Emmanuel Shéyi Adébayo
r, was named itinerent Ambassador of the United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAID
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), a statement made available to PANA here Tuesday indicated.
24/03/2009 full text... |
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| World Bank grants Burundi US$ 15 million to fight AIDS | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The World Bank will grant US$ 15 million to the gove
rnment of Burundi within the framework of the implementation of the second multi
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ector project of fight against HIV/AIDS over the next three years, PANA learnt f
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om official sources here.
10/02/2009 full text... |
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| Workshop on HIV/AIDS holds in Libya | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre of Prevention and Fight Again
st Transmittable and Endemic Diseases here on Sunday held a workshop on the norm
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and processes of treatment of HIV/AIDS.
02/02/2009 full text... |
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| AIDS: Global Fund partners with Standard Bank in Africa | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
on Monday announced that it had signed a pilot partnership agreement with the St
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ndard Bank, Africa’s largest banking group in terms of assets, geographical spre
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d and market capitalization, to offer 'pro bono' support to Global Fund grant re
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ipients in selected African countries.
26/01/2009 full text... |
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| Two Congos partner against HIV/AIDS | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - HIV/AIDS control associations from Congo and the Dem
ocratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Thursday agreed to join their efforts to fight t
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e pandemic, a source close to the Congolese health ministry said here Friday.
16/01/2009 full text... |
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| HIV/AIDS telethon raises 191.4 million CFA F in Mali | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - About 191.4 million CFA F was raised for the care of 475 y
oung AIDS orphans at the telethon organised in December 2007 in Mali by the Asso
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iation for Research, Communications, and Household Support to HIV/AIDS-positive
p
eople (ARCAD-Sida Mali).
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| Gabonese women involved in fight against AIDS | | Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Women leaders in various sectors will work
with the Gabonese ministry in charge of AIDS control to help lower HIV
prevalence in the country, where the current average is 5.9 per cent,
an official source told PANA on Tuesday.
23/12/2008 full text... |
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| Human rights body calls for urgent ARTs for Kenyan children | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - International Human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Wa
tch Tuesday raised the red flag over the fate of over 40,000 children in Kenya s
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ffering from the HIV/AIDS virus, saying they were likely to die in the next 24 m
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nths if they do not receive antiretroviral treatment (ART).
16/12/2008 full text... |
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| Mali puts over 4,000 patients on ART | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A community-based organisation caring for people
living with HIV/AIDS in Mali, CESAC, has placed more than 4,000
patients under anti-retroviral therapy (ART), officials told PANA here
Monday.
15/12/2008 full text... |
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| Mali to intensify prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Supreme National Aids Control Council (HCNLS) in Mali,
which met in ordinary session Thursday under the chairmanship of President Amad
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u Toumani Touré, has recommended the intensification of prevention of mother-to-
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hild HIV transmission (PMTCT) across the country.
12/12/2008 full text... |
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| International AIDS conference ends in Dakar | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The 15th International Conference on AIDS and
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) in Africa rounded off in Dakar
on Sunday, with participants recommending more efforts and resources
to further contain the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the continent.
08/12/2008 full text... |
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| UNICEF supports HIV screening for Gabon babies | | Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - UNICEF has offered a technical plateau for HIV/AIDS s
creening among newly-born babies from AIDS-positive mothers in Gabon as well as
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edicines to the Owendo peadiatrical Hospital, near Libreville, an official
source here told PANA Saturday.
06/12/2008 full text... |
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| 'No HIV/AIDS vaccine in the short-term' | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The director of the National Agency of Research on HIV/A
IDS and viral hepatitis (ANRS), Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, declared on
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riday in Dakar that there is no vaccine in the short-term to fight the HIV/AIDS
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pidemic.
05/12/2008 full text... |
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| High AIDS prevalence rate reported in Guinean mining sites | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Mining development sites in Guinea
have recorded a 5% HIV prevalence rate, four times higher than the national rate
which is estimated at 1.3%, the head of the International Association Partners
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gainst AIDS (PCS), Laurent Aventin, said as an international conference on AIDS
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nd sexually-transmitted infections in Africa (ICASA) begins here.
05/12/2008 full text... |
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| Wade throws challenge on HIV prevention in Africa | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal has called
on HIV/AIDS activists to do more towards preventing further spread of
HIV/AIDS in Africa, while stressing the importance and need of
house-to-house sensitization campaign among communities.
04/12/2008 full text... |
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| Global Fund rejects Namibia's funding application | | Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The Global Fund has thrown out Namibia's
round eight application for
US$160 million to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, after the
country failed to meet standards
set by the Fund's technical review panel, government said Thursday.
04/12/2008 full text... |
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| Mozambican public service suffering effects of HIV/AIDS | | Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The public service in Mozambique is seriously suffer
ing the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic which translates into high levels of mo
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tality and absenteeism and makes it difficult to meet planned targets, according
to the Permanent Secretary of the Public Service Ministry, Eduardo Nhampossa.
02/12/2008 full text... |
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| More HIV patients in Benin benefit from ARVs | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The number of HIV-positive people with access to antiret
roviral drugs (ARVs) in Benin leapt from 400 in 2002 to 11,350 last September, a
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cording to official figures published on Monday in Cotonou.
02/12/2008 full text... |
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| PROMETRA launches 5 traditional products against HIV/AIDS | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Association for the Promotion of Tradi
tional Medicines (PROMETRA) and the University Morehouse School of Medicine of A
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lanta in Georgia, US, here Monday launched five products against the virus of th
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HIV/AIDS, in the form of plants powder coming from four African countries.
01/12/2008 full text... |
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| UNAIDS commends DRC for fight against AIDS | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AI
DS, has commended the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) "for
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aving made progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, " Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS Exec
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tive Director, said Sunday at the end of a meeting with President Joseph Kabila.
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| African leaders urged to scale up resources against HIV/AIDS | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Stakeholders and political leaders have been charged to
allocate more resources towards stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS, providing care,
support and treatment to the 33 million people said to be living with the diseas
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in 2007, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
01/12/2008 full text... |
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| 'Voluntary annual testing, immediate treatment may slow HIV epidemics' | | Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A mathematical model developed by a group
of specialists in the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that
using annual, universal voluntary HIV testing, followed by immediate
Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) - irrespective of clinical stage or CD4
count - reduces new cases by 95% within 10 years.
26/11/2008 full text... |
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| More pregnant women in Cameroon under ARV therapy | | Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - Access to the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs by pregnant
women in Cameroon has increased considerably, vaulting from 9% in 2006 to 50.5%
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n 2008, according to the AIDS Control Division of the country's Public Health mi
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istry.
21/11/2008 full text... |
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| Zimbabwe to get US$500m to fight AIDS | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Health authorities in Zimbabwe said Thursday
the country would get US$500 million in funding from the Global Fund
to
fight HIV, AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria.
23/10/2008 full text... |
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| HIV funds, soccer dominate media headlines in Malawi | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Having already shocked the Pharaohs of Egypt in the ca
mpaign for places in the joint CAN/World cup tournaments, Malawi press toyed all
through the week with the prospects of having their team qualify for the elite e
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ents.
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| Belgium protects aids to Congo against 'vultures' | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Belgian Ambassador to Congo, Michel Tilemans, sa
id here Thursday that the money his country gives to Congo for development would
no longer be intercepted by what he called 'vulture' funds, sources close to the
Congolese Energy and Hydraulic ministry told PANA Friday.
26/09/2008 full text... |
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| Kenya worries over fresh HIV infections | | Kakamega, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan health authorities expressed concern
on Tuesday over the growing rate of fresh HIV/AIDS infections, which
increased by over 11% in the past year alone, suggesting the infected
population are increasingly spreading the disease.
16/09/2008 full text... |
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| Mali, Burkina Faso collaborate against HIV/AIDS | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Health and Social Services Commission of the Parliamen
t of the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO) recently organised a
public awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in the zone of Hérémokono
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Koloko at the border between Mali and Burkina Faso, official sources told PANA h
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| Mali, Burkina Faso collaborate against HIV/AIDS | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Health and Social Services Commission of the Parliamen
t of the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO) recently organised a
public awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in the zone of Hérémokono
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Koloko at the border between Mali and Burkina Faso, official sources told PANA h
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re.
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