Africa bears brunt as HIV cases soar
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ALMOST 5million people have been infected with HIV this year, the highest incidence in a single year, according to a report published yesterday.
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HIV EPIDEMIC is rapidly spreading across the world, and according to a UN report, it is estimated that by the end of year 2004 more than forty million people including 18.
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Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world&#39;s population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV-- some 25.4 million.
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In the 25 years since the first HIV-AIDS cases came to light, some countries have started to check the spread of the disease, while others, especially those in southern Africa, have witnessed
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China, India and Russia are on the brink of an Africa-style Aids epidemic that could devastate the global economy and international security, the head of the UN Aids project has warned.
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The global HIV epidemic is growing, leaving an estimated 39.5 million people worldwide infected with the deadly virus, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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A shortage of doctors and nurses in Africa is now one of the biggest obstacles to providing life-saving drugs to AIDS patients, condemning untold numbers to an unnecessary death, a new report says.
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The numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in China and India are reaching crisis proportions and could threaten the world economy, a UN expert says.
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The number of people living with HIV has reached 39.4 million people worldwide - with high increases reported from EU&#39;s neighbouring Russia and Ukraine, according to an annual AIDS report.
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South Africa, burdened with one of  the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on  Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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A shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in Southern Africa.
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DURBAN, 9 November (IRIN) - With an increasing number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS seeking foster care, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is placing enormous pressure on South Africa&#39;s child welfare system.
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Britain is âin the grip of a serious HIV epidemicâ as the number of people suffering from the infection continues to soar, figures showed today.
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THE number of cases of HIV diagnosed in Scotland reached a record high over the summer, according to figures released yesterday. In all 105 diagnoses were reported to the Scottish
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A critical shortage of healthcare workers and restrictions on prescribing life-saving drugs are crippling the war on HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.
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HIV/Aids is fast acquiring a feminine face in African countries like Kenya, as biological vulnerability, poverty and sexual violence join to raise infection rates for young women and girls, a report from UNAids has warned.
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Ten times more people in Africa are  getting life-saving AIDS drugs than just three years ago, but  still most get no treatment and the pandemic continues to  spread, the World Health Organization reported on Wednesday.