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  • BRAZIL

    BRAZIL

    An ingenious way to disseminate information and awareness about AIDS, the deadly malady, was encountered here recently. To design a costume for a carnival, a Brazilian dancer in Sao Paulo recently

  • The growing menace

    The growing menace

    In 1996 there has been a significant development in drugs for the treatment of AIDS. Even as Americans and Europeans are optimistic about the success of anti-AIDS drugs, a report by United Nations

  • Voicing the pain

    "i am a healthy human being, leading a straight life. Why should I worry about aids?' That is the common reaction to aids awareness campaigns. hiv/aids is thought of as something that happens

  • South Africa

    The use of a drug

  • Hope for the living

    Hope for the living

    Documentary film maker, Doordarshan newscaster, theatre artist and radio broadcaster, Ramesh Venkataraman's latest docu-fiction video, Zindagi Umeed ke Saye Mein (Life in the Shadow of Hope), is

  • Light from an area of darkness

    Light from an area of darkness

    Strange but true. Health workers in Africa are successfully using antibiotics to slow down the spread of AIDS

  • FIGHTING MEASURES

    The AIDS management programme in Bangladesh should have a four-pronged methodology, according to the UN body on AIDS (UNAIDS). With the situation becoming more alarming, UNAIDS has suggested that a

  • Misery unlimited

    AS IF a deep economic crisis was not enough, Russians have to now contend with the snowballing effect of the AIDS epidemic. Earlier, as part of the Soviet Union, the people led a

  • INDONESIA

    A recent report prepared by the University of Indonesia predicts that almost 12,000 to 3 1,000 people in the country will die of AIDS by the turn of the century. A poor medical surveillance

  • UNITED NATIONS

    Officials from over 70 countries are meeting at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi to discuss the Montevideo Programme II -the second long-term UNEP plan

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