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LONDON (Reuters) - Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday.A study by Canadian scientists found that South ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ugandan HIV and AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral "cocktail" therapy can expect to live nearly as long as their compatriots who don't have HIV, a new study finds."They can have almost a normal life expectancy, and live approximately ...

Patients taking HIV drugs in Africa can expect to have a near-normal lifespan, although men are likelier to die far sooner than women, according to the biggest study of its kind, issued on Monday at the world conference on AIDS medicine.Researchers at ...

LONDON (Reuters) - AIDS drugs used to treat HIV can also be used to prevent infection among heterosexual men and women, according to the results of two studies conducted in Africa released on Wednesday.The findings add to growing evidence that drugs used ...

Home to 22.5 million people with HIV -- nearly 70 percent of the world's total -- sub-Saharan Africa bears the brunt of the 30-year-old AIDS pandemic.Millions of lives have been destroyed, yet the war now shows signs of progress: infection rates are ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts to treat everyone in Africa infected with the AIDS virus are virtually futile, and public health experts should instead focus on preventing new cases, a committee of experts reported on Monday.Currently 22.5 million people in Africa have HIV, ...

While in the Western world infection amongst heterosexuals remained relatively low throughout the 1990s, in Sub-Saharan Africa the pandemic rapidly reached appalling proportions: in 1990, HIV prevalence in pregnant women was 27.7% in Uganda (Kampala), 22.7% in Malawi (Blantyre) and 10.3% in ...

HIV/AIDS is greatly feeding fat on our hostile attitude towards one another.It is feeding on our lack of true love for one another.HIV/AIDS has affected the way we love,the way we care,the way we treat one another;and that is the basis for ...

I like many would love to stop the spread of AIDS and I do believe that a person who knowingly exposes another to the virus should get life in prison to protect society.But Uganda has carried the concept to new extremes. "? ...

Governmental Misuse of HIV/AIDS Funding Around the WorldThe cost of fighting the epidemic for treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS is rising very rapidly around the world. The cost would have been as little as U.S. $17 per month/per patient, or U.S. $0.65 ...

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Topic: Uganda

Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion

Life expectancy rises with AIDS therapy in Uganda

Africans on HIV drugs can expect normal lifespan - study

AIDS drugs can prevent infection, two studies show

Africa at the forefront of AIDS war after 30 years

Best to focus on preventing HIV in Africa: report

The making of an epidemic: HIV in Eastern Africa

How discrimination hinders the fight against HIV/AIDS

Uganda proposes execution for homosexuals

Governmental Misuse of HIV/AIDS Funding Around the World

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