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There is no government strategy to fight the spread of AIDS in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, a senior healthcare official said on Thursday.
17 May 2013 | AFP
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Both the NZ AIDS Foundation and Body Positive are remaining tight-lipped regarding the cover story of the most recent issue of HIV NZ which questions the NZAF's safe-sex promotion strategy.
16 May 2013 | Gay NZ
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Swaziland, with the world’s highest incidence of HIV, is embarking on pilot projects to offer treatment to all people who are HIV-positive, irrespective of their CD4 count. The studies will investigate if the use of ‘treatment for prevention’ could reduce new HIV infections among Swa-zis. The new approach is called ‘Treat All.’
13 May 2013 | Times of Swaziland
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The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population
13 May 2013 | Radio Australia
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On 10 May, 199 stakeholders, including national, international NGOs, researchers, doctors, professional associations, medical society, national parliamentarians and members of the European Parliament called on the European Commission and EU leaders to re-affirm leadership and Ccmitment on HIV/AIDS, both inside and outside of the European Union as the current policy documents.
13 May 2013 | EATG
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The US Supreme Court should overturn the 2003 law that requires federally funded HIV/AIDS programmes abroad to denounce prostitution.
09 May 2013 | Nature
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Despite international travel and fluid population movement across Europe, three quarters of clustered new infections in a 26-country study involved people from the same country and another 10% involved people from a neighboring country.
07 May 2013 | International AIDS Society
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In principle, I support the handover of public health to local authorities. But, in practice, because the government has become so preoccupied with reform of the NHS, this handover spells real danger.
03 May 2013 | The Guardian
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Today, Ofsted is publishing ‘Not yet good enough’, a report which evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education and makes recommendations on how the subject can be taught well in English schools.
01 May 2013 | OFSTED press release
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There is room for optimism in the overall progress of the global education sector's response to HIV, says a new in-depth study of 39 countries around the world. However, a worrying degree of stagnation in some areas still exists and much more needs to be done if the sector is to fulfil its critical role in helping to intensify HIV prevention.
01 May 2013 | UNAIDS
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