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HEALTH-MALAYSIA: Divided Over HIV Testing
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR - A raging debate over mandatory HIV screening has exposed fear and ignorance within government, despite years of awareness campaigns to eradicate prejudice against people living with the virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Maximising the Benefits of AIDS Funding
By Rosemary Okello*
NAIROBI - Significant new investments in the fight against the AIDS pandemic could have positive impacts on broader health systems in Africa if governments handle them right.
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AIDS-LATIN AMERICA: Neglect, Ageism Put Older People at Risk
By Marcela Valente*
BUENOS AIRES - AIDS prevention campaigns tend to target the young, who make up a large percentage of those infected with the disease. But experts in Latin America say that people in older age ranges with an increasingly active sex life are being neglected, and are at risk because of lack of information.
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GENDER-SOUTH AFRICA: 'A Real Man Does Provide Care'
By Kristin Palitza
MTHATHA, South Africa - Sonwabo Qathula puts on his apron and starts peeling a pile of butternuts, while a pot of rice boils on the stove next to him. The 50-year-old is preparing lunch for poor and orphaned children who attend a rural school in the Eastern Cape.
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POLITICS-US: Scientists Hail Return to Fact-Based Policies
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Key appointments announced by President-elect Barack Obama suggest that science will soon make a major comeback in the U.S. government.
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AIDS-SOUTH AFRICA: Balancing Individual Rights Against Public Health
By Mercedes Sayagues
PRETORIA - Public health and individual human rights are poor friends. What may be good for society may be bad for the individual, or the other way round. And nothing sharpens this tension as starkly as AIDS.
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POLITICS-US: Conservative Pastor's Star on the Rise
By Bill Berkowitz*
OAKLAND, California - For a president who had little to do but pardon turkeys on Thanksgiving and throw the switch on the national Christmas tree, little to look forward to but packing his bags and evacuating the White House, and less positive accomplishments to look back on than most presidents, this year's World AIDS Day was clearly a high point. And Pastor Rick Warren was there to share the spotlight with him.
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HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: Shady Dealings With Antiretrovirals
By Ephraim Nsingo
HARARE - The current political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe is dealing a blow to the provision of free treatment and care to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs).
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RIGHTS: Universal HIV Testing Raises Hopes and Fears
By Nastassja Hoffet
UNITED NATIONS - While prospects remain dim for a successful HIV vaccine in the near future, public health experts and AIDS advocacy groups are pinning their hopes on a new strategy released by the Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) that could end the disease's endemic phase within a decade.
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CARIBBEAN: Despite Successes, Too Many Dying of AIDS
By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN - Every day, 55 people in the Caribbean are infected with the HIV virus and 38 of them die of the disease. That's 20,000 new infections and 14,000 deaths annually.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Breaking the Cycle of HIV Transmission
Zahira Kharsany interviews DAVID ALNWICK, UNICEF HIV Advisor
JOHANNESBURG - According to the United Nations Children's Fund, early diagnosis and treatment greatly increase survival rates for HIV-positive newborns. but fewer than one in ten infants born to HIV-positive mothers in 2007 was tested for HIV within two months of birth.
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Q&A: "Less Funding Could Lead to Millions of AIDS Deaths"
Thalif Deen interviews BERTIL LINDBLAD, director, UNAIDS Office in New York
UNITED NATIONS - The global economic crisis is threatening to undermine yet another key development goal set by the United Nations: reversing by 2015 the AIDS epidemic still devastating millions of people worldwide.
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AUSTRALIA: Do More Regionally to Stop HIV/AIDS Gov't Told
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - While HIV infection rates remain relatively low in Australia, the peak non-governmental organisation representing the country’s community-based response to HIV/AIDS wants the government to do more to fund prevention measures here and in the region to counter rising infection rates.
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More than two decades after the first case of HIV infection was reported, this deadly virus is spreading inexorably around the globe: almost 40 million adults worldwide are now infected by HIV, which constitutes far more than a health crisis. HIV/AIDS makes its presence felt in many areas -- it undermines the ability to work, food production, education and the advancement of women.

XVII International AIDS Conference
Aug. 3-8, 2008

TERRAVIVA - 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Training Manual for the Media: Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights

IPS - Inter Press Service has published a training manual for the media on how to report on HIV/AIDS from a gender and rights perspective which is now available online here (pdf, 503KB).

CUBA: Racism - "Taboo, Complicated and Thorny" Issue

PERU: A Mining Town’s Woes

MIDEAST: Israel Ponders End to Offensive

CULTURE-NIGERIA: Dance Draws Young Into Museum

CHINA/US: Wealth of Nations Redefined

ECONOMY-CHILE: Workers Nervous, Despite Anti-Crisis Plan

MIDEAST: Obama Silence 'Ends Hopes From U.S.'

MIDEAST: Israel Attacks Schools, Ambulances

ECONOMY-HONDURAS: Stormy Outlook for 2009

TRINIDAD: Where Are the Missing People?

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UNAIDS
UN Millennium Development Goal #6
World Health Organisation - HIV
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Treatment Action Campaign
Africare
Africa Centre for Health & Population
U.S. NIH - Office of AIDS Research
Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS
China AIDS Network
Asian Community AIDS Service
Indian NGOs HIV/AIDS
EuroHIV

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