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PEPFAR and CIFF Launch $200 million Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment Initiative (ACT) to Save Lives
Today, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), launched Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT).
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What’s the Real Risk of the West African Ebola Outbreak?
Ebola’s deadly sweep across West Africa has raised global alarm: Nigeria recently became the fourth country affected by the virus when a traveler fell ill and died in Lagos after flying there from Monrovia.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Meet the Tiny Company Behind the Experimental Antibodies for Ebola
The companies manufacturing an experimental drug treating two American Ebola patients aren't among the largest multinational pharmaceuticals in the world. In fact, leading the effort is a small nine-employee firm in San Diego.
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Target ‘zero’: Going full force against malaria in Asia
Anti-malaria efforts have been gaining significant traction and progress in the past couple of years, particularly in Africa, with a 54 percent decline in child malaria deaths.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Circumcision cuts risk of HIV infection, experts say
[MELBOURNE] Getting men to choose voluntary circumcision is seen as essential in preventing new cases of HIV infection in heterosexual men and women.
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Ebola risk unheeded as Guinea’s villagers keep on eating fruit bats
Health workers struggle to separate myth from reality of Ebola as residents say abandoning tradition is out of the question
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ebola virus: Britain’s top doctor accuses drug firms of dragging their heels in finding vaccine
Professor John Ashton said the pharmaceutical industry was being slow because it had only affected Africa and not the Western world
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OPINION: On AIDS: Three Lessons From Africa
An AIDS fable: Once upon a time, in the years after AIDS went from being a death sentence to a manageable disease, at least for people rich enough to take antiretroviral therapy, many of the people who ran the world believed that these medicines weren’t appropriate for residents of very poor countries.
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