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Governments tackle HIV stigma on World AIDS Day
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Governments across the globe pledged Monday to step up the fight against HIV, combatting the stigma associated with the disease and promising to bankroll treatment programmes on World AIDS Day.
Nations:South Africa China People:George W. Bush Hu Jintao
2008-12-01
Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so
LONDON - As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.
Nations:Grenada Rwanda Uganda Ethiopia Source:(AP)
2008-11-30
150 whales die in stranding in Australia
HOBART, Australia - A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.
Nations:Australia Source:(AP)
2008-11-30
AIDS cases in Asia to hit 10 mln by 2010: experts
MANILA (AFP) - Cases of HIV/AIDS could hit 10 million in Asia by 2010 -- more than doubling the current estimate -- unless nations take stronger steps to control the disease, experts warned on Friday.
Nations:Philippines Source:(AFP)
2008-11-28
Complacency about HIV 'more deadly' than disease itself: IFRC
GENEVA (AFP) - HIV infection rates may be stabilising in sub-Saharan Africa, but they are growing in Eastern Europe and Asia, the Red Cross said Friday as it warned against complacency over the disease.
Source:(AFP)
2008-11-28
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