GLOBAL: ARVs in microbicide research - keeping hope alive?
25 February 2008 (PlusNews ), After a string of depressing trial results, the fourth international microbicides conference in New Delhi, India, kicked off this week with a ray of hope that new research could deliver a new generation of HIV prevention approaches for women.
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BANGLADESH: Stronger HIV policy needed
19 February 2008 (PlusNews ), Insufficient data, coupled with the lack of a coherent HIV prevention policy, are undermining Bangladesh's national AIDS programme, say health experts.
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BANGLADESH: Living with HIV an uphill battle
6 February 2008 (PlusNews ), Mohana Rosario is like many people living with HIV in the world today. The 30-year-old mother of four from Manikganj District, 75km from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, faces an uphill battle caring for herself and her family.
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BANGLADESH: HIV prevalence rising fast
13 November 2007 (PlusNews ), Borhanuddin Mia, a casual labourer in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, earns just US$2 a day, but in the evening always manages to meet his fellow users at a small park opposite Dhaka medical college. “We buy one vial of pethidine for five users and inject it,” the 24-year-old said.
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