HIV AIDS Awareness Programs

Cuban activists launch a campaign against AIDS with posters urging the use of condoms in Havana. Cuban health authorities have warned of a dramatic rise in AIDS cases among the young on the island, where there over 1,300 new HIV infections in 2008 and another 1,400 are estimated for this year.

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The Asia Pacific region is on target to treat a million HIV-positive people with antiretroviral drugs within the next two years, Prasanda Rao, UN AIDS regional director has said.

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FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday April 28, 2009, Miss Universe 2009 Venezuela's Dayana Mendoza arrives at the Zacamil hospital in San Salvador. Mendoza is in El Salvador to support a campaign to prevent the HIV/AIDS in Central America.

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College students display HIV/AIDS awareness messages on their faces during a face painting competition in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh January 17, 2009.

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Boxes of ashes with names wait to be claimed by their relatives at a shrine at the AIDS hospice just outside Bangkok in Thailand. The Asia Pacific region is on target to treat a million HIV-positive people with antiretroviral drugs within the next two years, a UN body has said.

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Children take part in a march to mark World Aids Day in the northern Philippines city of Olongapo in 2008. Experts from 65 nations gathered in Indonesia to assess progress in the battle against HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, amid concern that only a quarter of those in need in the region were getting treatment.

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A clinic where patients receive medical treatment for HIV/AIDS in Jakarta. Experts from 65 nations gathered in Indonesia to assess progress in the battle against HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, amid concern that only a quarter of those in need in the region were getting treatment.

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, right, shares a joke with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, before addressing journalist after their meeting in Durban, South Africa, Saturday Aug 8, 2009. Clinton met with Zuma in a bid to improve strained ties with the country. The pair were holding talks on Saturday in the port city of Durban, a day after Clinton and South Africa's foreign minister pledged to start a new era of cooperation in fighting HIV/AIDS and climate change and begin a strategic dialogue.

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Pakistani activists light candles around an AIDS symbol during a memorial in Lahore, in 2007. India, Indonesia and Pakistan have become key fronts in Asia's fight against HIV/AIDS, health experts said ahead of the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific next week.

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Indian nursing students hold a vigil to mark World AIDS Day in Amritsar in 2008. India, Indonesia and Pakistan have become key fronts in Asia's fight against HIV/AIDS, health experts said ahead of the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific next week.

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