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HIV Discrimination for Africa’s Pregnant Women
Many African women with HIV who are pregnant, or want to become pregnant, suffer discrimination.
Early HIV Treatment Slashes Odds of Transmission
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A landmark study released yesterday shows that early treatment of people with HIV dramatically reduces the odds that they will transmit the virus to a sexual partner. The World’s Marco Werman explores what the study means for combating AIDS in Africa. He speaks with Aditi Sharma, an AIDS activist with the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition. Download MP3
South African political cartoonist Zapiro
Jonathan Shapiro has been known as Zapiro since he was a teenager. South Africa’s best-known political cartoonist learned the power of visual expression in the 1980s as a propagandist for the anti-apartheid movement. Today, he’s regarded across South Africa’s diverse population as the moral compass of his country, trying to keep the still-developing democracy well, democratic.
‘Breakthrough’ pill could help prevent HIV
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Scientists recently announced a potential breakthrough in the prevention of HIV. A pill normally used to treat HIV was found to protect gay men from becoming infected with the virus. Yet in Brazil — one of the countries involved in the study — it’s not clear when the pill will start being used. Solana Pyne reports from Rio de Janeiro. Download MP3Road safety in Tanzania
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More than a million people die on the roads every year, the vast majority in the developing world. In some age groups the deaths outpace those from diseases like AIDS and malaria and yet those receive far more attention and funding. We go to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to witness a slice of the global epidemic in road traffic injuries and what can be done about it. Download MP3New Beginning in South Africa’s AIDS battle
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South Africa has the largest number of HIV-infected people on the planet. In a widely welcomed speech to mark World Aids Day, South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, pledged a new beginning. The World’s Jason Margolis has the story. Download MP3
World AIDS Day Posters
In this audio slideshow from BBC News, you can see the subtle and shocking ways that health campaigners have used images to raise HIV/AIDS awareness across the world. The posters use various methods, from humorous to blunt messages, to convey to observers why the message remains so important more than two decades after the virus was discovered.
Tech Podcast 260: Promising AIDS vaccine, Embrace thermoregulator, and Scottish worms
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The highlight of this week’s podcast is a segment suggested by one of you, the tech podcast faithful. It’s about the Embrace, a low-cost incubator that may help save the lives of premature and low birth weight babies in the developing world. Also, you’ll hear about a promising AIDS vaccine trial. We end with Scottish earthworms, and a Mumbai cell phone symphony.
New HIV vaccine ‘reduces infection’
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An experimental HIV vaccine has for the first time cut the risk of infection, researchers say. They found that the vaccine reduced by nearly a third the risk of contracting HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. It has been hailed as a significant, scientific breakthrough, but a global vaccine is still some way off. The World’s Laura Lynch reports. Download MP3AIDS vaccine test results
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The World’s Laura Lynch reports that scientists who conducted an AIDS vaccine trial in Thailand say the results showed the vaccine cut the risk of infection by as much as a third. At least some scientists see the results announced today as encouraging.
AIDS researcher on vaccine news
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks about todays AIDS vaccine news with Jon Cohen, author of “Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for the AIDS Vaccine.”
World Books Interview: Death and the Beauty Salon
Mexican writer Mario Bellatín’s growing international literary reputation as a leading Spanish-language experimentalist suggests that he’s a pop innovator focused on the grotesque, playfully obsessed with the consciousness of the outcast.
Key finding on AIDS
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Scientists studying chimps in Tanzania have made a discovery that could change our understanding of AIDS. The scientists say chimps infected with a virus closely related to HIV are developing immune problems and dying at a high rate. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the study’s lead author, Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Pharmaceutical giant allows generic AIDS drugs
One of the world’s largest drug companies, GlaxoSmithKline, has said it will allow the manufacturers of generic drugs to produce versions of all its medicines for treating HIV and AIDS. Anchor Jeb Sharp speaks with Michelle Childs, Director of Policy at the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. Listen
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