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| A woman walks past an AIDS awareness poster in Beijing December 28, 2005. (Jason Lee/Reuters) |
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Lucy Auwalu, an HIV-positive Nigerian mother whose two sons do not have the virus, listens during a news conference in Abuja, Nigeria December 3, 2005. Nigeria will double the number of government centers where AIDS patients can get free drugs in the next three months as part of a major drive to widen access to treatment, the government anti-AIDS agency said on Friday. (Estelle Shirbon/Reuters) |
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| Men dressed in traditional costume join a march marking the World AIDS day in Bangkok. The number of deaths from AIDS last year fell sharply because of much wider access to anti-retroviral drugs in Thailand, the public health ministry said(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul) |
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| An Indian scientist prepares herself for the 'clean room' as she performs research on stem cells at a laboratory in Manipal Hospital in Bangalore. Cashing in on a high birth rate and the enormous potential of stem cell research, India's biotechnology firms are coaxing more parents to bank blood from their newborn's umbilical cord(AFP/File) |
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| Iranian addicts receive new syringes at the Perspolis charity in south Tehran, 2004. Some 12,556 people in Iran are infected with the HIV virus, 631 of whom have already developed AIDS, according to the health ministry's latest figures reported by a student news agency(AFP/File/Henghameh Fahimi) |
