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One in Four Tuberculosis Deaths Involves a Person Infected with HIV
Tuberculosis killed more people with HIV than ever in 2007, according to a new report released by...
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IMF: Global economy to shrink in 2009
Washington - The global economy could shrink as much as 1 per cent this year, the International...
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Fresh water supply pressured by growing population, social demands
New York - The world's fresh water is a finite commodity, but growing demands for it are tearing...
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Marine Wildlife Endangered By Underwater Noise
The impact of human activities on marine wildlife has undoubtedly
taken an unwanted course in the...
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US Chronically Ill Patients Complain More about Health Care
US
chronically ill patients often skip medical care due to high costs or medical
errors compared...
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Miriam Makeba Dies Aged 76 After Performing At Italy Concert
Miriam Makeba, the Grammy Award-winning South African folk
singer also known as “Mama Afrika,”...
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2008 Kids Count Data Book
The situation of children in the United States shows slight signs of
improvement from 2000 to...
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Head of UN Program on HIV/AIDS, Peter Piot Withdrawing
Peter Piot, who has been with the United Nations in the
fight against HIV/AIDS for 13 years, will...
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UN: More Action Is Needed to Fight HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide
Despite global efforts to fight AIDS, the number of people
who get infected is far outpacing the...
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Health
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More Efforts Are Needed to Help Children Affected by HIV/AIDS
According to a report released Tuesday by the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS,...
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Global Efforts against HIV/AIDS Should Focus on Prevention and Testing
Prevention strategies should be improved in order to reduce transmission of HIV among those...
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Report: Bush Administration Was Successful in Fighting HIV/AIDS
Although the Bush administration is going to leave Barack Obama a nation, which is locked in two...
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Relay for Life Celebrates Cancer Survivorship around the World, Raises Money for Cancer Research
Teams of friends, family, neighbours and colleagues are organizing for the 2009 Relay for Life, the...
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Measles Deaths Drop By 74%
The world’s population is facing some of the most terrible diseases known to man. In older times,...
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Measles Deaths Radically Plunged Thanks To Vaccination
According to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, the number of...
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UN Report: Early HIV Diagnosis and Treatment Essential to Save Babies’ Lives
A United Nations report has shown that
early HIV testing and treatment procedures which provide...
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Complacency About AIDS Heightens Risks, Experts Say
Geneva - Asian countries, youngsters and people spoiled by the availability of medicines in the...
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HIV-Living Population Rising 11 Percent in the US
The number of people living with HIV is growing as more
patients survive thanks to antiretroviral...
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New AIDS Reports Look Discouraging
A new report of the AIDS epidemic produced by
researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and...
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UN Reports Progress In Fighting AIDS; Black Americans Neglected
A report of the United Nations issued in advance of the 17th
International AIDS Conference, which...
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US Life Expectancy Sets New Record First Time in Years
Finally, some good news is coming from the federal US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
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UN: Rates of AIDS Infections and Deaths Going Down
For the first time since AIDS was identified in the mid-1980, the United Nations says the numbers...
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Research on New Bug Repellents Has Promising Results
Following the increased risk of West
Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, researchers...
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Indonesia Reports Its 108th Bird Flu Victim
Just days after Indonesian authorities organized a three-day
bird flu crisis exercise, a...
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Extensive Indonesian Bird Flu Crisis Drill
A major drill initiative is taking place in Indonesia, as
authorities have prepared a three-day...
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WHO Concerned over Slow Progress in Fighting Tuberculosis
The fight against the worldwide tuberculosis epidemic slightly
slowed in 2006, the most recent...
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More China Citizens HIV-positive This Year
This Thursday, Health Minister Chen Zhu announced that statistics show that 700,000 of China...
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China Reports Increased Number of HIV Cases
The number of people estimated to be suffering from HIV in China
has risen in the last months...
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United Nations Says New Cases Of HIV/AIDS Have Fallen
In its latest report released on Tuesday, UNAIDS, the joint
UN and World Health Organization (WHO)...
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U.S. Health Care System Falls Short in the Survey
According to the survey published by the Commonwealth Fund
in the journal Health Affairs Americans...
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World
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WTO chief Pascal Lamy: Protectionism is on the rise
Geneva - Since the beginning of the year, countries around the world have been implementing...
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UN: Piracy trebled in 2008, 30 million dollars in ransom paid
New York - Acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea trebled in 2008 with the pirates taking an...
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Global Efforts Against HIV/AIDS Should Focus On Prevention And Testing
Prevention strategies should be improved in order to reduce transmission of HIV among those...
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Philippines Propose Global-Warming Insurance Funds
According to the Philippines Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change Secretary...
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IAEA Approves Nuclear Aid For Syria Despite West's Concerns
Vienna - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) members on Wednesday approved nuclear aid for...
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Crisis Means Good Deals In Asia For Flashpackers
Hong Kong - "It's a buyers market," Malcolm O'Brien said. "There's bargains out...
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West Spars With Developing Countries On IAEA Aid For Syria
Vienna - Western countries on Monday questioned proposed nuclear technology aid for Syria, while...
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India’s Navy to Hunt Some Pirates
The Indian navy has received formal approval from the United
Nations to track down and destroy...
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Ban: Pirates received 30 million dollars in ransom this year
New York - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that Somali pirates have...
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Supertanker Seizure Ups Stakes In Piracy Battle
Nairobi - Somali pirates achieved a new milestone in their seemingly unstoppable rise this weekend...
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Iran Scheduled A Conference On Obama And US Affairs
Tehran - Iran announced earlier today an upcoming conference meant to review the victory of Barack...
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Nepal's Himalayan glaciers at risk due to global warming
Kathmandu - The rise in global temperatures and climate change caused by greenhouse gases are...
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World War I recalled in poignant 90th anniversary tributes
London/Paris - Commemorations to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I were held in...
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Reformists urge Khatami to run against Ahmadinejad
Tehran - Leading reformists in Iran have urged former president Mohammad Khatami to run against...
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Global leaders agree to Iran resolution
New York - The world's major powers have agreed on a resolution over Iran's nuclear programme that...
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Ahmadinejad Defends Nuclear Right, Prepared for Sanctions
New York - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said that his country was prepared to...
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Few Options for IAEA Board to Deal with Iran File
Vienna - There is little members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can do at their...
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IAEA Report Proof of Peaceful Nuclear Programme
Tehran - The West considers the latest report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Iran's...
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New Evidence, No Progress on Iran Nuclear Allegations
Vienna - Iran is continuing to expand its uranium enrichment programme while obfuscating UN efforts...
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Report: North Korea tests engine for long-range missile
Seoul - North Korea has conducted an engine ignition test for a long-range missile at a new launch...
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Petraeus to call for pullout of US troops from Baghdad within 10 months
Baghdad - US commander in Iraq General David Petraeus said on Thursday he would call for the...
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Georgia Pulls out Troops from South Ossetia, Calls for Ceasefire
Georgian officials have reportedly ordered the country’s military to cease fire, the first step...
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US’ Fight against HIV – Successful Overseas, But Not within Its Borders
The number of people being infected with HIV virus in the US is about 40 percent higher than...
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U.N. Peacemakers and Workers Accused of Child Abuse
Save the Children UK, a British charity organization, reported that United...
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Bhutto Loyalist Elected as Pakistan's Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gilani, a longtime loyalist of slain opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto, was elected...
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Arms Dealer Arrested in Thailand for Weapons Sale to the FARC
One of the world’s top arms dealers was arrested Thursday in
Bangkok being accused of...
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Drug-Abusing Celebs – A Negative Example for Youth, UN Says
The United Nations drug control
agency has expressed its concern over drug abuse among...
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Iran Will React if UN Passes New Sanctions
Iran said it would respond if the world powers continue add more sanctions against the Middle...
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Algerian Police Station Bombed, Four Officers Dead
A police station was blown up by a suicide bomber in a town
east of Algiers on Wednesday....
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Afghanistan Expels Two Senior Diplomats
The Afghan government decided to expel two high-ranking diplomats accused of holding talks with...
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