Advocates Share Ideas in Teaching About AIDS

"Like most scientific conferences, the 17th International AIDS Conference, which ended here on Friday, had its share of researchers presenting and discussing the findings of multiyear investigations in clinical terms."

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Antibodies May Lead to Protection Against HIV

"Some long-term survivors of HIV infection produce rare and extremely potent antibodies that keep the disease from progressing to AIDS, and might point to a way to protect uninfected people from the virus, researchers reported yesterday in the closing hours of the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City."

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Conference Addresses Universal Access to Antiretroviral Drugs, Health Systems

"Although antiretroviral drugs have become 'so effective' that a 20-year-old HIV-positive person in a wealthy country can now expect to live another 43 years on average -- 'close to a normal lifespan' -- the 'near-miraculous effects' of the drugs highlight the need to treat as many people as possible worldwide, advocates and researchers said on Wednesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Toronto's Globe and Mail reports."

Resistant TB still curable with aggressive treatment

The deadliest form of tuberculosis is still curable if properly treated, according to a new study that lifts hopes in the battle against bacterial infections impervious to common antibiotics.

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AIDS, Millennium goals imperiled by health worker shortage

The campaign to provide universal access to anti-AIDS drugs by 2010 and meet key Millennium Development Goals is at threat from a crippling shortage of doctors and nurses, a senior U.N. health official said.

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Call for targeted AIDS prevention funding

Millions more could avoid infection with HIV if more money was shifted into better targeted prevention efforts that have already been proven to work, leading AIDS researchers said on Wednesday.

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Report: India and China key to meeting global health goals

Global achievement of the health-related Millenium Development Goals, the MDGs, depends largely on India’s success and on China accelerating progress even further, according to a new UNICEF report which examines the latest trends in child and maternal health.

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WHO and World Bank join forces for better results from global health investments

As delegates gather at the International AIDS Conference (3-8 August), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank today address the pressing global debate around health systems and initiatives in specific aspects of health, nutrition and population

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Clinton Urges More AIDS Efforts

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, fresh from a tour of his foundation's projects in Africa, took the stage of the International AIDS Conference here to tell thousands that "we must do more."

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UN warning on India child health

The world will fail to reach millennium development goals unless India improves its record on health and child protection, a UN report says.

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