Topic: Austria
Vienna is gearing up to welcome tens of thousands of revellers to its world famous Life Ball this weekend, one of the world's biggest AIDS charity events, with Janet Jackson and Bill Clinton in the star line-up.While last year's mega-party in front ...
American pop singer Janet Jackson will be present at the 19th Life Ball, an annual Aids charity event, in Vienna on May 21 -- 30 years after the disease was first discovered, organisers said Monday.Jackson, the younger sister of pop icon Michael ...
A vaginal gel has significantly cut the rate of women contracting HIV from infected partners in an experiment in South Africa, researchers said. Welcoming the results, UN agencies said they would convene an expert consultation in South Africa next month to discuss ...
Vienna's glitzy AIDS charity Life Ball last weekend raised 1.5 million euros (1.9 million dollars) for international and national HIV and AIDS projects, organisers said Thursday.This year's event on the square in front of the Austrian capital's neo-Gothic Town Hall and attended ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Drugmakers Merck, Tibotec and Gilead are in advanced talks with UNITAID about a patent pool to make AIDS drugs more widely available to the poor, the health funding agency said on Wednesday.But ViiV Healthcare -- a GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer ...
A report that a microbicidal gel nearly halved infection rates among several hundred South African women has dominated news coverage of this week's International AIDS meeting in Vienna, Austria.. "It's a game changer," Bruce Walker, an AIDS expert at Harvard Medical School ...
Several thousand activists and anti-AIDS campaigners marched through Vienna's city centre on Tuesday evening, demanding more respect for human rights in the fight against HIV.Men and women of all ages, nationalities and sexual orientation paraded down the famous Ring boulevard in the ...
Thousands of AIDS activists rally in Austria for more rightsThousands of AIDS activists have rallied in downtown Vienna with singer Annie Lennox to demand more rights for people with the disease.The activists — many carrying banners, waving flags and blowing on whistles ...
Life-saving drugs that quell HIV reached a record 355,000 children at the end of last year, compared with 276,000 a year earlier, but more young lives could be saved if antiretroviral treatment began earlier, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.The ...
Colourful, creative and a little bit crazy: the fight against AIDS can be all that as activists demonstrated Tuesday at the Global Village on the sidelines of the World AIDS Conference in Vienna.At one end of the Village, super-heroes Methadone Man and ...
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Austria Nazi Victims' Graves
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