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  • UNITED NATIONS

    Officials from over 70 countries are meeting at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi to discuss the Montevideo Programme II -the second long-term UNEP plan

  • CHINA

    After Japan and the us , it is the turn of China. Months of secrecy later, Chinese health officials have confirmed that a certain brand of a common blood product called serum albumin, produced

  • MUTUAL AGREEMENT

    US haemophiliacs who contracted the AIDS virus from contaminated blood-clotting products have decided to accept a tentative US $650 million class action settlement of the lawsuit brought against the

  • Three pronged attack

    Three pronged attack

    Promising results from new drug developments were discussed at the Vancouver AIDS conference but questions about their long term benefits and affordability remained lurking in the background

  • SOUTH AFRICA

    hiv -positive mothers double the risks of passing hiv to their babies through breast milk, suggests a controversial South African study. Breastfeeding is believed to be the best prevention

  • SINGAPORE

    With Asia fast outpacing sub-Saharan Africa as the region with the highest number of hiv -infected cases, asean members have decided to establish an aids centre to promote the

  • CAMBODIA

    After suffering years of war and tyranny, the Cambodians are facing a new threat: an aids epidemic . An alarming rise in aids cases has been recorded ever since screening for the

  • SOUTH AFRICA

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Quelling fears about transmission of feline aids from lions to humans, a leading South African veterinarian, Dewald Keet has said that the disease which has infected 83 per cent of the lions in

  • TWIN TROUBLES

    A three-day SAARC meeting from September 23-25 on tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS, spelt out country specific action plan for managing the diseases. The meeting which was held in Kathmandu, revealed that

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