Cameroon: HIV-Infected Youths Promised Free Treatment

The Coordinator of Southwest Technical Group, PTG, for the Fight Against HIV/AIDS, has said youths diagnosed with the virus in the Province would receive free treatment.

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Project Offering Life to PLWHA in Country's Urban Areas

Over 60 thousand vulnerable adolescents, orphans and women living with HIV/AIDS in six cities of the country improved their nutritional status and increased their income level through an urban gardens project.

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India to help WHO define counterfeit drugs

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee has initiated steps to take India on board while proposing a change in the definition of counterfeiting at the next World Health Assembly.

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UN Foundation to Distribute Anti-Malarial Bed Nets on Thailand, Myanmar Border

The United Nations Foundation has announced that it will provide ten thousand anti-malarial bed nets to families living in temporary camps on the border of Thailand and Myanmar.

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Advocates Share Ideas in Teaching About AIDS

"Like most scientific conferences, the 17th International AIDS Conference, which ended here on Friday, had its share of researchers presenting and discussing the findings of multiyear investigations in clinical terms."

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Antibodies May Lead to Protection Against HIV

"Some long-term survivors of HIV infection produce rare and extremely potent antibodies that keep the disease from progressing to AIDS, and might point to a way to protect uninfected people from the virus, researchers reported yesterday in the closing hours of the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City."

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Conference Addresses Universal Access to Antiretroviral Drugs, Health Systems

"Although antiretroviral drugs have become 'so effective' that a 20-year-old HIV-positive person in a wealthy country can now expect to live another 43 years on average -- 'close to a normal lifespan' -- the 'near-miraculous effects' of the drugs highlight the need to treat as many people as possible worldwide, advocates and researchers said on Wednesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Toronto's Globe and Mail reports."

Resistant TB still curable with aggressive treatment

The deadliest form of tuberculosis is still curable if properly treated, according to a new study that lifts hopes in the battle against bacterial infections impervious to common antibiotics.

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AIDS, Millennium goals imperiled by health worker shortage

The campaign to provide universal access to anti-AIDS drugs by 2010 and meet key Millennium Development Goals is at threat from a crippling shortage of doctors and nurses, a senior U.N. health official said.

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Call for targeted AIDS prevention funding

Millions more could avoid infection with HIV if more money was shifted into better targeted prevention efforts that have already been proven to work, leading AIDS researchers said on Wednesday.

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