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HEALTH-SWAZILAND: On ART Since Birth
By Mantoe Phakathi
NHLANGANO, Swaziland - Seven-year-old Ntombi* frowns after swallowing the tablets her grandmother has given her. The HIV-positive child has contracted multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
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SWAZILAND: Help Sex Workers - Senator
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
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RIGHTS-UGANDA: "You Cannot Tell Me You Will Kill Me Because I’m Gay"
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA - The Ugandan government will put to death gay citizens repeatedly caught having sex and throw into jail those who touch each other in a "gay" way, if a new proposed Bill becomes law.
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LESOTHO: AIDS Orphans get Helping Hand
By Letuka Mahe
MASERU - Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead.
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RIGHTS-US: NGOs Praise End to HIV Travel Ban
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Global health and U.S. AIDS activists are hailing President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that the government will end a 22-year-old ban on the entry into the United States of HIV-positive visitors.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Fresh Campaign Against Paediatric AIDS
By Nalisha Kalideen
JOHANNESBURG - Eleven years ago, Raloke Odetoyinbo had been married for two years and a month when she found out she was HIV positive.
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KENYA: AIDS Prevention Amongst Drug Users a Challenge
By Susan Anyangu
MOMBASA - The United Nation Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) claims that Kenya has more drug users than any other East African country. UNODC estimates there are 100,000 cocaine users, 200,000 using opiates like heroin and four million who smoke cannabis.
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HEALTH: New Vaccine for AIDS Raises Conditional Hope
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - The possibility that a vaccine could soon be developed to fight the deadly HIV virus has the scientific community brimming with hope and excitement, but there is also disagreement about how effective it could be in the global war against AIDS.
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Q&A: Invest in Young People in Latin America
Daniela Estrada interviews MARCELA SUAZO, regional director of UNFPA
SANTIAGO - To fight inequality, Latin American countries must double the financial commitment they made at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Marcela Suazo, the regional director for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), told IPS.
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RIGHTS: Police Force HIV Tests for Sex Workers
By Charles Mpaka
LILONGWE - It was, Malawian police say, a routine sweep for criminals at one of the country’s busiest border posts. They were looking for criminals.
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HEALTH-INDIA: Positive Approach to Life
By Neeta Lal
NEW DELHI - At an age when most 20-year-olds dream of living a perfect life, Kousalya Periasamy found hers shaken by personal tragedies.
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HEALTH: "Patent Pool" Could Ease HIV Drug Prices
By Andrea Bordé
NEW YORK - Pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline hold the future welfare of poor people living with HIV/AIDS in their hands, argues the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, which is urging the companies to release their patents on specific HIV drugs into a collective pool that will increase access and affordability to treatment in developing countries.
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ZAMBIA: 'Clear Lack of Commitment to HIV'
Kristin Palitza interviews HENRY MALUMA, Oxfam Zambia essential services coordinator
CAPE TOWN - A United Nations mid-point review of Zambia's efforts towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), released in September, has revealed that HIV/AIDS might prevent the southern African country from meeting the targets.
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News in RSSMore 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.

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UN Millennium Development Goal #6
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Africa Centre for Health & Population
U.S. NIH - Office of AIDS Research
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China AIDS Network
Asian Community AIDS Service
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