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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: HIV

HIV stories: 73 news summaries

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Bank Gives Shy Thais Condoms

Thailand bank fights aids with free hand outs

Oct 2, 07 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some unusual withdrawals will be taking place later this month as Thailand's Kasikorn Bank begins giving away free condoms, branded with the bank's logo, at its 600 branches.  Called "Condoms for Confidence," the campaign to combat the spread of AIDS  seeks to alleviate embarrassment felt by many... More »

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AIDS • Thailand • marketing • HIV • condom • banking

First Daughter Talks of New Book, Fiancé

Jenna Bush sidesteps questions on Iraq:
 'I'm not a policymaker'

Sep 27, 07 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an interview set to air tomorrow night on ABC, First Daughter Jenna Bush promoted her new book, "Ana's Story," which tells the tale of a 17-year-old single mother living with AIDS whom Bush met while working for UNICEF in Latin America. The interview also touched on Bush's... More »

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Jenna Bush • HIV • marriage

Catholic Leader: Condoms in Africa Carry HIV

Mozambican archbishop charges plot to kill Africans

Sep 27, 07 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Catholic opposition to condom use as an AIDS preventive in Africa took a bizarre turn yesterday when a respected archbishop in Mozambique charged that condoms imported from Europe had been deliberately infected with HIV. Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio made his comments at an Independence Day celebration and reiterated them to... More »

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AIDS • Catholic Church • HIV • Mozambique • condom • abstinence

Sex Is Most Common Cause of HIV in China

Society struggles with openness as virus spreads beyond IV-drug users

Aug 20, 07 8:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Unsafe sex has become the most common means of transmission of HIV in China, edging out IV-drug use and blood transfusions, the BBC reports. That points to the need to focus prevention efforts on mainstream sexual practices—not just those of high-risk groups—which poses a daunting challenge in a... More »

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China • AIDS • HIV • sex • sexual behavior • safe sex • prostitute

Syphilis Surges in Surprise Comeback

Experts worry about increasing infection rate among women

Aug 12, 07 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just two years after it was almost eradicated, syphilis is experiencing a stunning comeback across the nation, health officials report. Nearly twice as many cases were reported in New York City in the first three months of this year, compared to the same time last year, the New York Times ... More »

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health • women's health • disease • HIV • sex • condom • infection • syphilis • STD

South African Prez Fires
AIDS Crusader

Minister sacked as Mbeki continues to deny science of HIV

Aug 10, 07 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Africa's president has fired his government's leading HIV/AIDS crusader, the prime mover of a plan to offer free treatment to millions. Thabo Mbeki dismissed his deputy health minister, who has opposed his AIDS denialism for years, the Mail and Guardian reports.  Mbeki has drawn worldwide outrage for the... More »

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Africa • health • AIDS • HIV • South Africa • infection • illness • Thabo Mbeki • Nozizwe Madlala Routledge

Libya Admits to Torturing Medics

Aug 10, 07 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi's son burnished his pro-Western image yesterday by admitting that Libya had tortured 5 nurses and a doctor once accused of spreading HIV among children, the AP reports. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi conceded that the "Benghazi six" were electrocuted and threatened after their 1999 imprisonment, but he did not... More »

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torture • HIV • Libya • Moammar Gadhafi • Bulgarian nurses • Seif al Islam Gadhafi • Benghazi six

Jailed Medics Freed, Pardoned

After eight years, the nurses go home

Jul 24, 07 7:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six medics imprisoned by Libya on charges of infecting children with HIV are finally free today. EU officials struck a deal with Libya after years of negotiations, and the five nurses and one doctor were extradited to Bulgaria, where they were immediately pardoned by the Bulgarian president. In return, the... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • HIV • Libya • Bulgaria

Drug Recall Hurts Poor HIV Patients

In many countries, no life-saving meds

Jul 23, 07 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the wake of a drug recall by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, tens of thousands of AIDS patients in the developing world no longer have access to lifesaving medicine. Last month, Roche announced a recall of the drug Viracept, after finding a hazardous chemical in some batches. But in... More »

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medicine • health • pharmaceutical companies • HIV • medical costs • drug recall

Libya Spares Lives of Nurses, Doc in HIV Case

Executions called off after payments to infected kids' families

Jul 17, 07 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Libyan government today spared the lives of the foreign medical workers sentenced to die for infecting hundreds of children with HIV. Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor had their sentences commuted to life in prison after the families of the infected children each accepted $1 million and withdrew... More »

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HIV • Libya • Bulgaria

Libyan Court Upholds Death for Nurses

Financial settlement with families could result in reprieve

Jul 11, 07 8:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Libya's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentences handed down to six Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV. But the medics, whose trial has provoked international outrage, may get a reprieve via a financial settlement with the kids' families. More »

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HIV • Libya

Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

An advantage 4M years ago is a weakness now

Jun 22, 07 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Humans are more susceptible to HIV than other primates because our ancestors evolved a protein that could fight off a different retrovirus that infected chimps, says Scientific American. The most conspicuous difference between the chimpanzee genome sequenced in 2005 and the human one, says a Seattle virologist, was 130 copies... More »

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evolution • health • AIDS • genetics • disease • HIV • DNA • chimpanzees • genome

UN Urges Mass Circumcision

Mass circumcisions in AIDS-stricken region could reduce infection

Mar 29, 07 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mass circumcision should be urged in AIDS-devastated regions to cut infection rates, the UN said yesterday. With trials demonstrating that circumcised men are 60% less likely to contract HIV, such programs could prevent 5.7 million new HIV cases in the next two decades, the Guardian reports. More »

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Africa • United Nations • AIDS • HIV • circumcision

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