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worker tests blood samples at an AIDS laboratory in Hefei, east
China's Anhui province, November 22, 2007. Significant numbers
of people living with HIV in central China have developed
full-blown AIDS despite receiving free anti-retroviral (ARV)
drugs, a leading AIDS researcher said on Thursday. REUTERS/Jianan
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undated handout photo shows actor Daniel Wu. Four Hong Kong celebrities
and a politician threw their weight behind a campaign aimed at stamping
out prejudice against people living with HIV/AIDS by asking: If I were
HIV positive, would you still love me? Starting on November 21, 2007,
posters of the five -- who include Wu and politician Alan Leong,
captured individually in black and white -- will feature for a month on
buses, subway platforms, newspapers and magazines. REUTERS/AIDS
Concern/Handout. |
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volunteer from the AIDS control society takes part in a campaign for
AIDS awareness program in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh October
28, 2007. The United Nations has slashed its estimates of how many
people are infected with the AIDS virus, from nearly 40 million to 33
million. REUTERS/Ajay Verma |
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| Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II looks at people waving Ugandan and British flags upon her
arrival at the Mildmay AIDS/HIV center in Kampala, Uganda. Queen
Elizabeth II said Thursday she felt "a sorrow so profound" at
what she called the "scourge of HIV and AIDS" following a
visit to a clinic in Uganda for sufferers of the disease.(AFP/Tony
Karumba) |
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| Thembi (L), a
volunteer from a local NGO, takes care of an HIV patient in the Ixopo
Region of South Africa in 2005. More than three-quarters of AIDS-related
deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa is now officially
the country with the highest prevalence of HIV in the world, according
to a new UN report.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia) |
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