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The Lancet - Rights of vulnerable people and the future of HIV/AIDS
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Since the identification of Pneumocystis (carinii) jirovecii pneumonia in five homosexual men in San Francisco in 1981, which led to the first description of what has become known as AIDS, our understanding of the syndrome has come a long way. Although the disease briefly...
IRIN - Sudan: Mixed success on malaria control in the south
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In highly malaria-endemic Southern Sudan, PSI and partners have made significant progress in controlling malaria but, IRIN reports, the region still has a long way to go before meeting all treatment and prevention targets. More than four million insecticide-treated...
BBC World Service - Cutting HIV
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Proven in trials to reduce the risk of contracting HIV by 60%, male circumcision programs in Zimbabwe and other African countries are on the rise. Journalist Steve Vickers reports from Zimbabwe about the recent scale-up of male circumcision in the country through a...
Making Markets Work for Women
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By Karl Hofmann “Let’s try to create markets for these goods and ways of funding them….” With that charge near the end of her remarks last Friday on the 15th anniversary of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Secretary of State Clinton...
PSI and the Red Cross Bring Clean Water Solutions to Haiti
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Purification packets will provide 11 Million Liters of Safe Drinking Water to Haitians this Week