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Global Health Corps Proposed to Fight AIDS (washingtonpost.com)
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That was the idea outlined yesterday by a group asked to come up with specific suggestions on how to create one of the key manpower components of the administration's ambitious AIDS plan. (article 2)
The service would also serve as a clearing house of information where health care professionals could learn about overseas opportunities, public and private. (article 2)
On survey days, Alicia Vera rises bleary-eyed before dawn, downs a cup of coffee and heads for nearby fields and churches to help stop the spread of AIDS. (article 3)
" Previous studies of the migrant population have generally shown a fairly high amount of risk behavior but not a lot of HIV said George Lemp , director of the Universitywide Aids Research Program being done by the University of California system. (article 3)
To keep that from happening, UARP is working with state agencies, clinics and even the Mexican government to test and educate migrants. (article 3)
The executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids said that the epidemic in India is spreading rapidly and nothing is being done to stop it. (article 4)
Sixty-three percent of New Mexicans diagnosed with AIDS last year were unaware they had HIV, the virus that destroys cells in the immune system and leads to AIDS, according to the department's February study. (article 5)
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Aids, HIV, Health, india, Zimbabwe |
Source articles
- In Rural Zimbabwe, AIDS Still Means Death (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post, 04/20/2005, 692 words)
- Global Health Corps Proposed to Fight AIDS (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post, 04/20/2005, 675 words)
- Study Aims to Prevent HIV in Farm Workers (ABCNews, 04/19/2005, 344 words)
- HIV is 'out of control' in India (BBC News, 04/19/2005, 430 words)
- Study: N.M. Gay Men Not Getting HIV Tests (sfgate.com, 04/17/2005, 439 words)
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