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 The AIDS epidemic goes on because the Americans seemed to have ignored the piece of advice given by the U.S. health officials to get the HIV testing if they were aged between 13 and 64 years. These testing remain in the shadow for most of the people. And this happens despite the new guidelines and the better testing methods.These results...
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 Researchers announced on Sunday that some genetically engineered immune cells could find the HIV virus in the body. This could offer a wide way to cure the disease that has been said to be impossible to cure. A study made in the laboratory showed that the T-cells, also called assassin cells, can spot the cells infected by the virus and...
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 Researches show that circumcision really protects men from HIV. This kind of surgery cuts a man’s chances to get HIV from a woman through sexual contact by up to 60%. Still, a new U.S analysis has tracked down 53,567 men who have sex with other men. The researchers concluded that there were no significantly lower HIV rates among those...
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A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the history of HIV, suggesting the virus that causes AIDS has been infecting people for at least 100 years.
The most pervasive and virulent global strain of HIV began spreading among human beings between 1884 and 1924, new research published Thursday in...
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 A study released on Wednesday has released new information about HIV/AIDS. The Democratic Republic of Congo has recently found out that a genetic analysis of a biopsy sample from their country dates back for more than a century and contains the virus. Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who led the study, discovered...
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 As more and more people get infected with the HIV virus, the efforts of the U.S. to test everyone for HIV fail and just 40% of adults in the country have been tested for the fatal virus. There are needed more methods to test everybody, because many people are infected and are unaware of this.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
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 It seems that the cases of HIV in New York have been poorly reported since 6,200 more people were found infected with the virus. Health officials in Nassau and Suffolk couldn’t tell whether there were any changes in Long Island’s HIV’s statistics. Still, experts said that the people infected with HIV will face economy problems.The Center...
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 According to federal health officials, HIV infects about 40 percent more people in the United States than the government has previously estimated.A recent study conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that about 56,300 people in the U.S. are infected annually with AIDS virus compared to the approximately 40,000...
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 As AIDS is a global pandemic, killing millions of people, measures have to be taken in order to decrease the number of deaths. In the short-term, in an effort to reach the target, governments must carry on expanding the employ of the methods currently at people’s disposal. Abstinence and faithfulness campaigns, condoms, and male...
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 The Black AIDS Institute blamed the federal government for not taking measures in the fight against HIV among black Americans, in whom the size and extent of the pandemic bear a resemblance to those seen in lots of African nations. The AIDS organization insisted that the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome should be regarded as a menace...
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The writing had been on the wall for some time. But last week, it became official.
The search for a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is
taking an about-turn, back to the laboratory and away from human trials
that had held out so much hope in the past two years. The
news was delivered by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the...
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 Since 1996, the life expectancy of people infected with HIV in developed countries taking antiviral therapy has risen with no less than 13 years and mortality among them has decreased by almost 40 percent, said this week's special HIV/AIDS edition of the journal Lancet.However, life expectancy continues falling short by an estimated 20...
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 According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the original Pave 100 study had planned to enlist 8,500 volunteers in the US, South America, the Caribbean and Africa. The most important aims of the study were to determine if the vaccine prevented HIV-1 infection and if vaccination leads to the decreased viral load...
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 The majority of the people in the United States infected with HIV live in the South, shows a report released Monday.The nonprofit Southern AIDS coalition, a group of HIV/AIDS advocates trying to augment funding for prevention and treatment options, assigns the South's uneven impact of HIV/AIDS cases to increasing infection rates together...
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 A new study indicates that people of African descent are
liable to possess a genetic feature that makes them more predisposed to
infection with the HIV virus.
Researchers reckon that the trait, which also offers
protection against a certain form of malaria, might be responsible for 11
percent of the HIV cases in Africa, the...
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 Since highly active anti-retroviral drug
therapy was made available to people infected with HIV living in developing
countries, the HIV death rate has dropped in the first five years after infection
to the point where it is equal to the normal death rates in the developing
countries, a new report found.
“Our results show the...
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 Just one day before National HIV Testing Day (set
on 27 June), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reached
the conclusion that the rate of HIV infection is progressively rising among
“men who have sex with men” (also called MSM). Public health specialists agreed
to use this term (men who have sex with men) due to...
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 Researchers found that commonly prescribed antiviral drugs are
the most effective for suppressing the virus that causes AIDS. The study has
major implications for doctors as they have to choose from a number of different
drugs to treat individuals infected with HIV.
One of the most commonly used regimens is the most effective
for...
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 Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington found that life expectancy is
declining in many poor US counties, especially among women. Smoking, obesity
and high blood pressure are three main factors which reduce the life expectancy
of women in Appalachia Mississippi River states and parts of...
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 Top AIDS experts said Tuesday that a HIV vaccine will not be soon available and much more basic research is needed before attempting again to develop one. This conclusion was mainly the result of the total failure of trials for current vaccine prototypes, some of which have actually raised the risk of contacting HIV.What the...
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 According to a
warning launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, it seems
that a powerful type of drug-resistant tuberculosis has started to spread even
faster than the organization’s medical experts had previously feared. In some
countries, the rate of people being infected with this powerful drug-resistant
strain...
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 Unfortunately, the enthusiasm and
the great expectations of the researchers over the anti-HIV gel results have
abruptly come to an end, when the gel designed to protect women from AIDS virus
did not prevent the infection, researchers say.
A first cause could be the low
use of the gel, researchers believe, as the gel should...
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 Health officials have stated that New Jersey this week
launched one of the most ambitious efforts in the country to control
mother-to-child transmission of HIV, making screening tests mandatory for all
pregnant women in the state beginning next year.
A bill signed into law Wednesday by the Senate president,
Richard J. Codey, in...
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 Researchers may have discovered the reason why more than 80
percent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are transmitted via
sexual intercourse.
According to a new study published in Cell, a component of
human semen may facilitate the spread of the virus by targeting immune system
cells, in some cases making the...
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 A component found in semen can enhance HIV transmission by
as much as 100,000-fold, researchers have found. The results, if verified in a
clinical setting, could identify a new way to help prevent the spread of the
disease.
"I think this is tremendous," says Christopher
Pilcher, an HIV researcher at the University of...
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 Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS,
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention) stresses the new estimates are not yet final, despite current media
reports about CDC's estimates of new HIV infections in the USA.
Dr. Fenton said "In recent years, CDC has...
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 Researchers said on Monday in a study that provides a better understanding of how the deadly HIV virus spreads that people with moderate levels of HIV in their blood are the most likely to infect others.Looking at several groups of HIV-positive people in Europe, the United States and Africa, the researchers found that people with high...
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 Merck also known as
Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA
and Canada,
one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, has abandoned trials
on an HIV vaccine that was regarded as one of the most promising in the fight
against Aids.
The decision came after scientist discovered that the drug
was in fact...
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If the current annual increase in the number of HIV infections in Uganda go unchecked then the country's economic growth rate will be halved by 2025, medical authorities warned Thursday.
The number of people getting infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been on the increase in the impoverished East African country, from a...
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The world's first organ transplants from an HIV-positive donor to HIV-positive recipients took place in Cape Town recently, South Africa's Mail & Guardian weekly newspaper reported Friday.
Two kidney transplants were carried out at Cape Town's Groote Schuur hospital in September, the paper reported.
The surgeon, who carried...
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 Former South African President Nelson Mandela, symbol of the anti-apartheid movement, is celebrating his 90th birthday. He planned to spend his birthday on Friday quietly with his family. However, according to BBC, celebrations in Qunu, his homeland village located in the southeast of the country, have increased rapidly. In the honor of...
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 The newly-elected head of South Africa's ruling African National
Congress (ANC), Jacob Zuma, on Thursday sought to quell fears of
political tensions caused by the emergence of two centres of power in
South Africa and ruled out a dramatic leftward shift in economic
policy.
"There is likely to be anxiety regarding the existence...
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 South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has termed the divisive
race for the leadership of the ruling African National Congress an
"unedifying spectacle" and urged ANC members not to choose leaders who
"will make us hang our heads in shame."
The popular Anglican archbishop was writing in the weekly...
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A rise in mobility within South-East Asia as people search for economic opportunity has made millions of people more vulnerable to HIV infection, a joint ASEAN-UN report issued Thursday said.
A country-by-country assessment of HIV and mobility in the 10 ASEAN-member countries revealed that despite their contributions to national...
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The international financial crisis is unlikely to lead to a significant fall-off in foreign aid and investment in Mozambique because it is well-governed, a senior US diplomat told a press conference in the capital Maputo Monday.
Todd Chapman, business affairs officer at the US Embassy in Maputo said Mozambique stood to receive...
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His name was familiar to US President George W Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao months before he won the EU's Sakharov prize for human rights, yet just a few years ago China's most prominent dissident was a largely unknown activist for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Hu Jia's international reputation grew while he...
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 23-year-old Zhang Zilin, who holds the title Miss China, has
won the Miss World pageant, with Miss Angola and Miss Mexico the top
runners-up.
The 57th Miss World contest was held at Sanya, a tourist
resort in southern China's Hainan province, with the final round of judging
Saturday. The program included messages aimed at...
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 People infected with HIV should begin drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, a new study suggests. The 8,374 HIV-infected patients study found that treating HIV earlier than federal health officials recommended can lengthen sufferers’ lives. Postponing the treatment of HIV infection until patients’ immune systems are...
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 Johnson & Johnson won federal approval to expand use of Prezista to newly diagnosed patients with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In 2006, the HIV drug Prezista, developed by Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and marketed by J&J, was approved for use in people who had used other types of treatment but with no success. As New...
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A coalition of human-rights and AIDS activists on Monday demanded the release of two AIDS experts detained in Iran.
The men, brothers Arash and Kamiar Alaei, were detained by Iranian
security forces in late June, without being charged. Their whereabouts
remain unknown, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on the sidelines of the
XVII...
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Religion and sexuality make
strange bedfellows. No society has ever existed without them, but when
it comes to HIV and AIDS, the two social constructs coexist
uncomfortably. Religion often acts as a barrier to HIV
prevention work, AIDS activists, public health experts and sociologists
attending the XVII International AIDS...
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 The Health Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad suggested on Saturday that women should have condoms on them to protect themselves against HIV infection, as the number of women contracting HIV in the country has risen."This is not to debase them but to protect them. Women are the first ones to get exploited by their...
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 House leaders from both parties and the White House agreed
yesterday on a bill that would triple in size the Bush administration’s global
AIDS program, which is considered to be the most successful and popular
initiative aimed at fighting a disease in US history.
The bill authorizes $50 billion over five years to...
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 According to a United Nations report released today, the
number of people newly infected with HIV has dropped significantly in recent
years around the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Specialists hailed the drop as a possible historic shift
brought about by billions of dollars spent in programs designed to prevent...
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Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit has sustained a minor concussion after falling down some stairs during a visit to Ukraine, reports said Monday.
The crown princess was in Ukraine in her capacity as a goodwill ambassador for the joint United Nations programme, UNAIDS, the Norwegian news agency NTB reported.
She apparently fell...
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Former Botswana president Festus Gontebanye Mogae received the 5-million dollar Mo Ibrahim award, recognizing his achievements in African leadership.
The announcement of the awarded, the second of its kind, was made MOnday by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in London.
The prize, which is endowed with 5 million dollars over...
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Human rights activists from China, Russia or Vietnam topped speculations on the eve of the announcement of this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The five-member Nobel Committee advises nominators not to announce their proposals but there are no rules against the procedure, allowing fodder for speculation before Friday's...
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 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, two French scientists together with German researchers Harald zur Hausen, sheared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday. The three Europeans discovered different viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer which helped doctors to fight against these diseases.The French scientists...
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German Harald zur Hausen on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research into the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer.
He shares the prize with French scientists Francoise Barre- Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who were awarded the prize for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The...
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French virologists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, will always be associated with the discovery of the retrovirus that causes AIDS.
In 1982, Montagnier headed a team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, of which Barre-Sinoussi was a member, that was asked for assistance in...
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The findings of a virus that causes cervical cancer and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were awarded Monday with the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
German Harald zur Hausen was awarded for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, while French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc...
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German researcher Harald zur Hausen on Monday said he was excited to hear the news he had won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Zur Hausen jointly awarded for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, along with French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who discovered the human immunodeficiency...
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Subsistence farmers in the impoverished southern African kingdom of Swaziland will get help from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to buy seeds as rising prices put agricultural inputs beyond the reach of many.
Speaking to reporters at a school-based farm project outside the capital Mbabane, UN FAO...
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 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were not amused by the
humanitarian causes taken up by Princess Diana, such as the fight
against landmines and her support for HIV/AIDS sufferers, the inquest
into her death has been told.
Simone Simmons, a complementary therapist who treated Diana and
became a confidante, told the...
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 Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched an international
campaign to help and improve the world’s poorest countries’ health problems.
The International Health Partnership (IHP) is trying to
re-enforce health systems in the developing world and make it easier for
struggling third-world nations.
"Our vision today is that we...
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 French first lady Cecilia Sarkozy is under harsh criticism from German and French newspapers for allegedly pulling off a publicity stunt with the aid of the Bulgarian nurses release from Libya. Last weekend she flew down to Tripoli and snatched the five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor in a French jet.Cecilia Sarkozy flew the...
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 One day before the 17th International AIDS conference, thousands of people worldwide marched through streets in the capital of Mexico on all for the fight against homophobia and discrimination against people infected with HIV. The mass of protestors taking to the streets was part of the demonstration. With the aim of pointing up their...
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For people who suffer from severe
diabetes, or HIV, or any other cureless disease hope is a daily medication. We
all hope that one day scientists will be able to offer the necessary cure until
it’s too late. Anyone of us might die just because he or she was unlucky enough
to get HIV or diabetes or any other similar disease,...
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 The mission of the paparazzi at the golden couple’s French chateau ended with a confrontation between the camouflage-wearing photographers who were trying to get pictures of Pitt’s new twins and Brangelina’s bodyguards. Both sides have filed legal complaints, accusing each other of battery and causing injury and one of the photographers...
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 Pamela Anderson and his ex-husband Tommy
Lee are back together again. Or, at least, they are living together again. The
former sex-tape stars were married for three years. The couple got married in a
surprise ceremony in February, 1995 and divorced three years later, in 1998.
Since her marriage to Lee, Anderson had been married...
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 Miss Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza, was crowned Miss Universe 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Since the end of the Vietnam War, this was the major USA-based broadcast from the southeastern Asia country. Also, this is the first time that the Miss Universe competition was held in 1080i HD.The winner’s prize package included cash, travelling around...
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 It appears that former spouses and sex-tape stars Tommy Lee
and Pamela Anderson are back together again, and this is not the first time the
two have tried to give their relationship another shot.
“We’ve only given it a try 800 times — 801, here we go,” Lee
told Rolling Stone. “Pamela and the kids have moved in with me,”...
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 The Seattle filmmakers, who
went to Nigeria
in order to make a documentary called “Sweet Crude” and were detained over the
weekend on suspicion of traveling in a restricted area, have finally been
released. According to U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, the next step for them will be
to complete final processing by Nigerian authorities on...
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 Late Ric
Weiland’s fabulous estate is going to make some people happy, as Bill Gates’
former classmate left no less than $65 million to gay rights and HIV/AIDS
groups before he died in 2006. Ric Weiland was one of the first five persons to
work at Microsoft and he had also been a high school classmate of the software
maker’s...
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US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Their discoveries were linked to describing the smallest building blocks in nature and nature's order, the academy...
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 People Infected with HIV in New York City are about three times more than in any other part of the nation. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released an estimated statistic on Wednesday through which they revealed that 72 of every 100,000 New Yorkers contracted HIV in 2006.The national rate is only 23 per 100,000...
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 About 25,000 people marched through Golden Gate Park Sunday in the 22nd annual AIDS Walk San Francisco, raising the astonishing amount of $4,512,934 to overcome the AIDS pandemic, event organizers said.Volunteers at the finish line welcomed the participants who took the streets of San Francisco, walking 6.2 mile in Golden Gate Park.Since...
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Venezuela's Dayana Mendoza, 22, was crowned
Miss Universe 2008 on Monday as the glamorous pageant was held for the
first time in communist Vietnam. The pageant hosted by the
southern resort city of Nha Trang was staged at 8 am, in order to make
the US prime time television slot. Co-host and former Spice Girl Mel B. couldn't...
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 Today, USA
President George W. Bush was given a special treatment by Pope Benedict XVI. The
US President had the
opportunity to take a walk along with the pope through the Vatican
gardens, the place where popes pray privately. The Guardian.co.uk reports hat
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 Reports revealed Saddam feared of getting “veneral diseases”
from US
prison guards. The London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat published excerpts of
Saddam Hussein’s diaries, which it said a journalist obtained from US
authorities. The US
military confirmed that pages of Saddam’s prison diaries have been released.
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 US President George W Bush, accompanied by his wife, Laura, will visit five African countries next month, the White House informed Friday.The Bushes will travel to Africa Feb. 15-21, visiting Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia, White House press secretary Dana Perino said Friday.The trip will give the president a chance to review...
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 US President George W Bush marked World AIDS Day with a trip to a
Methodist church, touting abstinence, sexual fidelity and condoms as
ways to combat a disease that kills some 5,700 people a day, most of
them in Africa.
He also announced that he and First Lady Laura Bush would visit
sub-Saharan Africa, the region hardest-hit by...
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Three US-based researchers shared the Nobel prize for chemistry Wednesday for work on developing a key tool used for tagging bioscience processes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm.
The three - Osamu Shimomura of Japan and US citizens Martin Chalfie and Roger Y Tsien - were cited for "the discovery and...
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 Forty years ago, Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae, banning the birth control pill and all other types of artificial contraception.At present, more than 50 dissident Catholic organizations worldwide have written a letter requesting Pope Benedict XVI to lift the church's prohibition on artificial birth control. The...
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 According to researchers, some viruses being used in experimental AIDS
vaccines may damage the immune system by exhausting key cells. The result was
reported on Thursday in a finding that may further cloud the field of HIV
vaccines.
They said vaccines using the viruses should not be tested on people until
more studies are...
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 According to the authors of a new study, more than one-third
of patients in Africa receiving HIV medication
discontinue their treatment within two years. As VOA's Jessica Berman reports,
the findings could help improve patient retention.
Researchers at Boston
University in Massachusetts
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