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Women Helping Women Deal with HIV Young, pregnant and HIV positive. Its a situation many women in sub-Saharan Africa found themselves in during the course of the AIDS epidemic. But since 2001, a program called Mentor Mothers has helped about one mill...
Zimbabwean Songwriter Fights HIV Getting to Zero was composed by an 18-year-old Zimbabwean, Theophylus Phoelyn, 18, and will be used by Zimbabwe as a theme song for this year's World AIDS Day. Most young musicians in Zimbabwe sing about love, sex and...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Eight Million People Now Being Treated for HIV BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. MARIO RITTER: And Im Mario Ritter. The nineteenth International AIDS Conference took place last...
Young People Navigate Relationships, Romance and HIV The exercise in this panel discussion: whether to disclose HIV status in a hypothetical relationship. Red means no, green means yes and yellow means maybe. There's a variety of responses in the sce...
Grassroots Efforts Help Reduce HIV in Africa Cutting edge The authors say there are relatively inexpensive and even traditional ways of reducing new infections. One is male circumcision -- a practice that they say has already kept infection rates low...
Spearheading the Fight against HIV/AIDS A top official at UNAIDS says in the early days of the epidemic leaders emerged not from the highest levels of government, but from the grassroots level where the disease had struck the hardest. Paul De Lay spo...
HIV Awareness Campaigns Paying Off A new survey shows that South African HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns have been a big success. Theres more testing, condom use and male circumcision. The findings were released Tuesday at the 19th International AIDS Co...
By Jessica Berman Washington 02 February 2006 For the first time since the start of the AIDS epidemic, researchers are reporting a decline in the percentage of men and women infected with HIV in south...
HEALTH REPORT – November 20, 2002: Quick HIV Test By Jerilyn Watson This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved a fast new test for H-I...