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  1. NAMIBIA: Feature Film Faces Realities of Safer Sex

    - Inter Press Service

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    A film just released explores the real complexities of relationships for young people in Namibia, and the effects of gender inequality and culture on the choices people make about their sexual lives.

  2. GUATEMALA: Theatre as HIV Prevention Tool in Native Communities

    - Inter Press Service

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    Poverty, lack of access to education and taboos about sexuality have hampered campaigns for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS among indigenous communities in Guatemala. These constraints have led to the development of new ways of communicating vital information, like theatre.

  3. WORLD HEALTH DAY: The Ten-Year Timeline for Antibiotics Burnout

    - Inter Press Service

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    Though the World Health Organization (WHO) has focused this year's World Health Day Apr. 7 on prioritising the struggle against the global spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), scores of international researchers and scientists fear this decision is coming too late, with 2011 already shadowed by the failure of pharmaceutical antibiotics to curb the proliferation of diseases.

  4. AFGHANISTAN:: A New Therapy Battles Soaring Drug Addiction

    - Inter Press Service

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    A pioneering drug substitution programme in conflict-wracked Afghanistan has been hailed a resounding success as local doctors and international health organisations battle soaring heroin addiction rates and an HIV/AIDS epidemic.

  5. 'Bold Decisions' Needed in AIDS Struggle

    - Inter Press Service

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    A new report by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released Thursday found progress in combating HIV/AIDS worldwide to be promising, yet inadequate to meet the needs of the 33.3 million people estimated to be living with HIV in 2009.

  6. SOUTH AFRICA: Who Says Research Can't Be Dramatic?

    - Inter Press Service

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    In the early 1990s, a group of researchers set off for a small rural village in the eastern part of South Africa. Their intention was simple: teach the community how to rehydrate sick babies.

  7. INDIA: EU Trade Deal May Curb Affordable Drug Supply

    - Inter Press Service

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    As India prepares to seal a sweeping trade and investment deal with the European Union (EU) in April, civil society groups are campaigning to limit the deal’s repercussions within the local generic drug industry here upon which millions of people around the globe depend.

  8. ZIMBABWE: Fighting Past Fear to Treat TB

    - Inter Press Service

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    In the dusty streets of Bulawayo’s densely populated townships, Susan Nkiwane is making house calls today. She is one of a group of twelve women who form a fragile web of support for TB sufferers in her community.

  9. HEALTH: Scare Haunts HIV/AIDS Patients in Ukraine

    - Inter Press Service

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    Fears are growing among HIV/AIDS sufferers in the Ukraine amid claims from some patients that they have been denied life-saving medicines by authorities as a crackdown is launched on drug substitution therapy.

  10. Integrating HIV Care with Broader Maternal and Child Health

    - Inter Press Service

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    From the outside, little has changed at the Maternal and Child Healthcare Clinic: pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers wait patiently on wooden benches. A chorus of infant call-and-response betrays the less long-suffering approach of their children to the wait.

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