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UN Report: AIDS Spreading Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia

(July 20) -- AIDS is spreading in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, especially among marginalized youth, according to warnings from United Nations advocates at this week's International HIV/AIDS Conference in Vienna. Rates of HIV in the region, which includes Russia and Georgia, have been climbing for much of the past...

Obama to Unveil New Plan for Combatting HIV, AIDS

WASHINGTON (July 13) -- President Barack Obama is announcing a new national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS aimed at helping reduce the number of infections and providing those living with the virus high-quality care free from stigma or discrimination. The strategy calls for reducing the rate of new HIV infections by...

South Africa Gets Real on AIDS Crisis

(Nov. 4) -- After failing for years to face up to its tragic status as the country most ravaged by HIV/AIDS, South Africa is taking a dramatic new approach to the epidemic that experts say could stop a hemorrhage of unnecessary death. AIDS causes about 350,000 deaths per year in South Africa, which has 5.7 million...