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Red Cross Says Fund Boost and Awareness Are the Main Ingredients to Fight AIDS

...are living with HIV and AIDS and over four million orphaned children. Hence the Red Cross is appealing for more support to scale up their operations. It also launched at the two-day symposium and appealing for 290 million dollars to increase its work in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibi...

Increased Funding For AIDS/HIV Program In Africa

...al. The minister also said that care of children orphaned by AIDS/HIV would deserve the utmost social service priority of the African Government. The year 2006 has even been declared as the 'year of accelerated prevention of HIV', that would focus on the reduction of social stigma attached to AIDS, increasi...

The AIDS Pandemic May Orphan 18 Million African Children By 2010

...hat more than 18 million African children would be orphaned // by the end of 2010. This would correspond to a ...lescents and teenagers, and protection of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS were other topics dealt with in the AIDS conference....

Africa Accounts For 50% Of HIV Patients

...e death toll in the country is leaving behind many orphaned children, leaving them in the care of stretched fa...tive population of 5 million. The children who are orphaned as a result of this will also have to find their own way in the world without support. ...

Indian Olympic Association And UNICEF To Collaborate On HIV/AIDS Awareness

... provides care, protection and support to children orphaned and made vulnerable by the disease. The main objective of the IOA- UNICEF collaboration will focus on promoting initiatives to enhance national awareness of UNICEF program priorities, using the opportunities provided through national games, use of ...

PM announces a new health care order for India

...y rocked the City leaving thousands homeless, many orphaned and a rising risk of water born diseases. The Chennai government worked quickly and effectively with the people providing immediate medical care, food water and shelter. However, the more current misfortunes such as the Floods of Bombay, deaths of ...

AIDS toll set to exceed Black Death

...ed life expectancy, increased infant mortality and orphaned millions of children, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than 28 million HIV sufferers. Ninety five percent of new infections are in the world's poorest countries where life prolonging drugs are not available to most sufferers....

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