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| An unidentified Myanmar woman fans
a sick child as she and others wait for free medical treatment at the
National League for Democracy, the opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi,
in this May, 7, 2002 file photo. According to the United Nations
Myanmar's increasingly authoritarian military junta has denied its
people essential human rights and created a humanitarian emergency,
including food shortages and a rapid rise in HIV infections. (AP
Photo/David Longstreath, file) |
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| Indian Muslim women hold placards
during a protest in the southern Indian city of Chennai December 12,
2005. Plans to install 500 condom vending machines in the capital of one
of India's worst HIV/AIDS- affected states has angered Muslim groups,
which say they will take to the streets against 'condom culture'.
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| Bharati Dey, a former prostitute,
speaks through a mobile phone in Sonagachi, a teeming red-light district
of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata December 10, 2005. Dey, 40, took
over as director of the World Health Organisation-funded HIV/AIDS
project for some 6,000 prostitutes of Sonagachi. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw |