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Reuters UK - BEIJING (Reuters) - Technocrat turned ideology tsar Li Changchun enjoyed a meteoric rise through the bruising arena of Chinese politics through skilful patronage and despite a provincial scandal involving massive AIDS infections. Under Li's watch as ...

Baltimore Sun - The sale of sex for drug money is an important but largely overlooked reason why Baltimore has the nation's second-highest rate of AIDS diagnoses, trailing only Miami. By the end of last year, almost 16,000 city residents were living with HIV or AIDS ...

Baltimore Sun - Often, she said, the options are a low-paying household job or work as a hostess at a bar -- a step which frequently leads to prostitution. "You make a lot more money in the cantinas, but you ruin your life, you get AIDS," Zwick said. 1 2 next More ...

Baltimore Sun - Despite millions of dollars spent on HIV/AIDS programs, the city until recently has taken only a piecemeal approach to helping these women break the cycle. Baltimore's health commissioner, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, asserted recently that the city lacks ...

Los Angeles Times - So the organization has sought to build awareness by promoting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which aim, among other things, to halve the rate of extreme poverty, reduce child mortality and stop the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015. The ...

Hindustan Times - Cuban scientists have said they are readying for the clinical trial of a new AIDS vaccine that has shown encouraging results on animals. Eduardo Martinez, director of the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Centre in Havana, said on Sunday that the ...

Independent Appeal: Teenager's survival guide to living with Aids

Forbes - LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which aids the transition of former communist countries to market economies, is facing key questions over its future. The London-based EBRD, which was created in 1991 ...

Forbes - Today President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush leave for a six-day visit to Africa to highlight the Administration's legacy in health, education and economic development. In a speech today, President Bush stated that his Administration has ...

Guardian Unlimited - An Aids vaccine might never be found, claims one of the world's leading experts on the disease. David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate, said the complexity of the disease means scientists are no closer to a vaccine today than when they discovered the link ...