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What Works in HIV Prevention: Keeping Women and their Children Healthy

TORONTO, Canada — “AIDS is in the same league with the other big issues like global warming and poverty,” Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS said in a conference panel.

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Condoms Are a Key to Reducing HIV Transmission in Zimbabwe

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Cathy Nyarai is an ebony, svelte, almost frail-looking 22-year-old woman. She is often described as anerunako, a beauty, in the local Shona language.

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What Works in HIV Prevention: Engaging Young People

<p align="left"> <strong>TORONTO, Canada</strong> — Three days before the XVI International AIDS Conference officially opened, youth delegates were preparing themselves to be more powerful…

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China Enlists Railway System in HIV Prevention Drive

BEIJING, China — One billion passengers ride China’s vast railway system each year.

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Young People in Mongolia: Finding Places Where Secrets are Safe

ULAANBATAAR, Mongolia— Like the rest of Asia, Mongolia is rapidly urbanizing, although it remains the most sparsely inhabited country in the continent.

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Dying to Give Life: Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan

BADAKHSHAN, Afghanistan — It juts like a finger, thrusting through the freezing and windswept Pamir Mountains: jabbing through the broad plateau of Tajikistan to the north and Pakistan to the south.

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Fistula Repair Facility Brings Hope to the Outcast

DHAKA, Bangladesh — When her labour pains started, Shahin Akhtar, age 12, didn’t know what was happening.

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Liberian Men and Women Unite to Fight Rape

MONROVIA, Liberia — Twenty-one-year-old Aminata Keita remembers the exact moment when attackers broke into her home.

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Revisiting 2005: A Year of Achievement, Commitment and Challenge

UNITED NATIONS, New York — The work and mandate of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, gained momentum in 2005, thanks to exceptional support by world leaders, donor, partners and individuals.

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