 | Program Supports Healthier Choices by Sex Workers to Reduce HIV
31 August 2010 | Africa
While visiting Livingstone, Zambia, several of us had the opportunity to visit Family Health International's (FHI) Corridors of Hope program, a community-based prevention program aimed at sex workers. |
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| Uganda: HIV Superinfection Spreading in Fishing Communities
31 August 2010 | Africa
A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter have "superinfections" that threaten both treatment and prevention efforts. |
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| Cancer Drugs to Defeat HIV?
27 August 2010 | North America
University of Minnesota researchers say they have found a potential new treatment for HIV, using a mixture of two anti-cancer drugs that are already on the market. |
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| Stakeholders Seek Law Against Discrimination of PLWHA
27 August 2010 | Africa
Apparently worried by the growing stigmatisation and discrimination against People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), stakeholders in Lagos, Nigeria called on the national and state assemblies to pass laws prohibiting such bias on grounds of health status. |
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| U.S. Will Give Mozambique $1B to Fight HIV
26 August 2010 | Africa
The U.S. says it will provide $1 billion over the next five years to help fight AIDS in Mozambique, where some 1.5 million people are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. |
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| CHF in Honduras Helping People Living with HIV Thrive: Stephanie's Story
25 August 2010 | Latin America
Looking at Stephanie's eyes one can see she has lived a lot more than her 24 years may suggest. |
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| Merck Provides New Funding to Fight HIV/AIDS in Botswana
25 August 2010 | Africa
Merck announced the Merck Company Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are committing an additional $60 million to support Botswana's African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP). |
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| New Research Brings Hope to Millions of HIV-Infected So. Africans
24 August 2010 | Global
New finding by Israeli researchers has offered hope for millions of South Africans living with and dying from HIV and AIDS. |
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| Revolutionary HIV/AIDS Point-of-Care Diagnostics System Debuts at AIDS 2010
17 August 2010 | Global
Continuum collaborates with Daktari Diagnostics to design portable HIV/AIDS testing system for use in remote areas of emerging markets. |
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| It's Time to Consider the Girl Effect on HIV
16 August 2010 | Global
Girls are the center of the HIV epidemic. In many countries, they are hit hardest, yet our prevention strategies have rarely focused on them specifically. |
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