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Church in India leads campaign on AIDS Working to shatter the myths and discrimination surrounding HIV/AIDS is just one of the ways in which the Catholic Church in India is playing a leadership role in the fight against the disease, according to a recent report. >> From despair to hope in Cambodia Cambodia is the region’s poorest country, with a shattered infrastructure and the legacy of Pol Pot’s Killing Fields. A few years ago, the country was facing a major health crisis with a rising new infection rate of HIV. >> Stigma and Exclusion When Natalya, a 28-year-old woman from Ukraine, learned she was HIV-positive, she said her father threw her out of the house...She was just 21 at the time and pregnant with her first child, who was born without the virus. Her partner, an injecting drug user, has since died of AIDS >> El hambre y el VIH "Las personas saben que el VIH los matará, al cabo de unos meses, pero que el hambre puede acabar con sus vidas este fin de semana" >> Children and HIV: What needs to be done? The vast majority of the children who will die this year from AIDS-related illnesses would be alive if they could receive the treatment they needed. >> |
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