This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Thirty-six volunteers in South Africa will test the safety of an African-developed vaccine against H.I.V. The tests are the first step in human clinical trials of two vaccine candidates developed at the

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 31 October 2007 In the Kenyan capital Nairobi lives a priest named Father Ed Phillips. For the past 14 years, Phillips has tended to the sick in one of the world's largest slums and conducted groundbreaking, but unheralded, re

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 31 October 2006 South Africa's National AIDS Council is to be restructured as part of a new plan to strengthen the country's response to HIV/AIDS and will now include a deputy chairperson drawn from civil society. The

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 06 December 2006 On a visit to strengthen efforts to provide HIV/AIDS treatment, former U.S. President Bill Clinton strolled the streets of the Vietnamese capital, met with young Vietnamese and discussed the work of the newl

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 15 May 2006 Internationally-acclaimed actress Naomi Watts has taken a volunteer job as a special United Nations envoy on HIV/AIDS. Watts has just returned from a fact-

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By Tendai Maphosa London 18 July 2007 Global AIDS treatment will fall far short of a target to have five million people in Africa being treated in the next few years. A new report reveals that the continued lack of access to drugs by many of the worl

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 November 2006 UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot presents the annual AIDS epidemic update report in Geneva, Nov. 21, 2006 The global AIDS epidemic continues to grow leaving about 39.5 million people worldwide infected wit

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 01 November 2006 Francoise Le Goff The Red Cross says funds for its AIDS programs in southern Africa are due to run out in three months. Officials made the announcement in South Africa as they launched what they said was t

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 23 July 2006 Chairman of Economic Advisory Council, C Rangarajan, center, Representative of UNDP in India, Maxine Olson, right, and Director General of National Aids Control Organization, K. Sujatha Rao A new U.N. report

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By Paula Wolfson White House 30 May 2007 President Bush is urging the U.S. Congress to support a massive expansion of his program to help AIDS patients in the developing world. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House. President Bush wears an

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 31 May 2006 A new report by the United Nations AIDS agency says India has overtaken South Africa as the country with the highest number of people infected with HIV/AIDS. The UNAIDS report also says the epidemic has spread in so

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 May 2006 A young HIV positive orphan lies in his cot at the Nyumbani children home, a hospice for AIDS orphans in Nairobi, Kenya Every day, nearly 1,800 children under the

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Universal Action Now is the theme of the upcoming International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. From Washington, VOA's William Eagle reports that among the factors that will be discussed at the conference are a lack of political will to allocate fun

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African American Communities Face AIDS Crisis More than a million people in the United States are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that approximately 50,000 more people are infected with HIV

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AIDS Orphans Face Psychological Challenges In many parts of Africa, AIDS has had a devastating effect. Now, 30 years into the epidemic, researchers are learning more about the impact on orphans and other children whose parents get AIDS. Oxford Univer

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 08 March 2006 Population growth in most of Africa is expected to rise sharply over the next 50 years. But, in southern Africa, AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through tw

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By Peter Heinlein Heinlein 03 June 2006 A high-level U.N conference on AIDS has exposed deep strategic differences between world leaders and rights groups representing victims of the epidemic. A final

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By Rosanne Skirble Washington 20 June 2007 Welcome to American Profiles, VOA's weekly spotlight on notable Americans who have made a difference in how we think, live and act. Today: Anthony Fauci, a medical researcher whose tireless energy and drive

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 01 December 2006 watch World AIDS Day report HIV/AIDS-affected children sit on a chair, waiting for their lunch at Opot pagoda, a healing center run by a non-government organization in Cambodia (File) In advance of Wo

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By Efam Dovi Accra 13 July 2006 Africa Trade Union leaders say they will work for policies to protect the rights of members living with HIV/AIDS. At a three day meeting in the Ghanaian capital Accra, the African chapter of Union Network Internationa

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