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World AIDS Day is a perfect occasion for everyone to remember that health means everything. But how can we be healthy in a world where HIV virus makes so many victims? It is a known fact that there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. Given the circumstances, what can we do to stay away from this fatal infection? This is what World AIDS Day is trying to teach...
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Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, Chinese
health authorities, along with the United Nations AIDS agency made a promise to
fight discrimination against people suffering from the condition.
The decision comes after many years during which the Chinese
government has shrouded in silence the fact that AIDS was actually a major
issue which many were facing and that fear of discrimination at the work place prevented
people from getting tested for HIV infection.
Also on Sunday, state television showed...
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New Delhi - Authorities in India's north-eastern Assam state culled 40,000 poultry of some 60,000 infected birds ordered to be killed after an outbreak of bird flu in the state, a news report said Monday.
Culling operations have been mounted in nearly 50 villages of central Kamrup district since Friday and 40,000 chickens and ducks have been killed, Manoranjan Choudhury, an official of the state veterinary department, told the IANS news agency.
The culling operations are expected to be completed by 22 teams in the next three days.
India's Health Ministry last week confirmed the...
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Tehran - The Iranian government respects the Iraqi parliament's decision to sign a new security agreement with the United States and awaits the outcome of a referendum next year, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said Sunday.
"We hope that the wise decision by the parliament will prepare suitable grounds for the referendum in six months," the spokesman said at a press briefing in Tehran.
Under the security agreement approved Thursday, US troops would withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of June 2009 and from the rest of the country by the end of 2011. A...
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Sana'a, Yemen - Eight Somali pirates have abandoned a Yemeni cargo ship after negotiations with Somali tribal leaders, but two other pirates were still on board the ship Monday, the ship's owner said.
"Eight pirates have already left the ship after tribal dignitaries convinced them to do so," Attas Salim Aboud told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
He said the two other pirates who were still holding the ship's crew hostage and would likely leave the vessel within the next few hours.
Eight crew members - three Yemenis, three Somalis and two Tanzanians - were taken hostage...
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