Children with AIDS in developing countries die needlessly
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Children with AIDS are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable and adapted medicines. On World AIDS Day, December 1, MSF is calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and national governments
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The number of deaths worldwide among children under 5 dropped to a record low of 9.7 million in 2006, reflecting progress in areas such as malaria prevention, childhood immunizations and breastfeeding rates, global health officials said yesterday.
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Fifty-five children have been infected with the HIV virus in a paediatric hospital in Kazakhstan, likely through unsanitary use of needles, the health ministry said.
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Dengue fever has killed 102 children this year in Cambodia, becoming the leading cause of child deaths in the impoverished kingdom, health officials have said.
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More than a third of  patients in Africa die or stop taking HIV drugs within two years of starting, research shows.
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Two million Nigerian children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS and 900 people are dying needlessly from the virus every day, the international medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) said.
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This industrial city is reeling after learning that at least 63 children have contracted AIDS through medical negligence many blame on corruption and the illicit sale of blood.
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World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of ...Comment
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More infants die in sub-Saharan Africa now than a decade ago, largely because HIV/Aids has reversed advances in public health, the UN children&#39;s agency Unicef reports today.
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Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
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LONDON - All children with HIV in developing countries should take a low-cost antibiotic because it could nearly halve the death rate, researchers say.
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The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS virus as &quot;a major breakthrough.&quot;
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death on Tuesday for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
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Eighteen impoverished Indians with AIDS died in one district in western India in the last two months because the nearest state supply of free drugs is hundreds of kilometers away, an HIV advocacy group said on Tuesday.
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Inside the corps of doctors trying to stem the tide of HIV among the continent's youngest patients
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The world&#39;s biggest AIDS conference  closed on Wednesday with a call for the development of  child-specific drugs to ensure millions of HIV-infected  children not only survive to adulthood, but also live without  damaging side effects from their treatment.