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The article reports that a study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that administering AIDS drugs to HIV patients rendered them significantly less infectious. Myron Cohen of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina led the study, which involved 1,763 couples, one each of which had HIV.

The article reports that over $3 billion in cash has been loaded onto planes and flown out of Afghanistan over the previous three-year period. U.S. investigators suspect a sizable fraction has been diverted from Western aid projects and North Atlantic Treaty Organization contracts, and sent to the overseas accounts of Afghan government officials.

The article examines research done by a small group of zoologists on the behavior of stray dogs in Moscow, Russia. The city has long had a significant population of stray dogs, and the dogs are adapting rapidly to Moscow's changing economic and social conditions. Increased prosperity and social freedom for humans has led the dogs to congregate where people do, in places such as subway stations and near the city's many outdoor fast-food kiosks.

This article focuses on scuba diving in the White Sea in Russia. The article explains that the White Sea offers ice diving to view sea creatures such as comb jellies, starfish, ophiuras, crossasters, and anemones. The article details the area, how to access it, creatures found there, and the dangers of ice diving.

The article focuses on an increase in cocaine use which is being seen in European countries, including Italy and France, in 2008. A discussion of new money laundering techniques for Euro notes which involve Latin American drug cartels, and which have developed as a result of the increase in cocaine use, is presented.

Reports that French and South African medical researchers have found that male circumcision reduces the risk that men will contact HIV through intercourse with infected women by seventy percent. Review of the difficulty in stopping the spread of HIV cases worldwide; Difficulty of developing a vaccine for the disease; Discussion of how the circumcision findings were so dramatic that the data and safety monitoring board overseeing the research halted the study in February on the grounds that it would be immoral to proceed without offering the uncircumcised control group the opportunity to undergo the procedure.

Reports that former U.S. President Bill Clinton will announce a program designed to slash the price of antiretroviral AIDS medicine in developing countries. Price reduction of the drugs negotiated by Ira Magaziner, of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, with several generic-drug companies -- Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Cipla Ltd., Matrix Laboratories Ltd. and Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd.; Details of the health infrastructure plans to be implemented by several Caribbean states and three African countries, designed to improve drug delivery and overall health-care systems; Fund raising efforts by Clinton to finance the health systems.

Reports the move of Pfizer company to donate the drug fluconazole drug to South Africa to help treat patients with AIDS. Number of people afflicted with AIDS in South Africa; Reason for the move of Pfizer to donate the drug to South African government; Price of the drug in South Africa; Monopoly of Pfizer on the price of the drug.

Discusses the ancient DNA discovered by scientists in !Kung San people of southern Africa. Agreement among scientists that first humans appeared in Africa and dispersed around the world; How the scientists discovered the genetic fragments that link the !Kung San people to ancient humans; Claim of the !Kung San people that they are the first people on earth; Implication of the discovery to Africa and its people.

Deals with the legal battle of the South African government against Pfizer pharmaceutical company over the monopoly of fluconazole drug for HIV patients. Price of the drug; Price of the generic version of the drug manufactured in Thailand; Importance of the drug for HIV patients who can not afford the price in South Africa.

Discusses the increase in the number of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in the United States (US). Comments from US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the issue: Who should be the focus of prevention; Decline in the proportion of homosexually active men who test HIV-positive at city STD clinics; Challenge of preventing a national resurgence of HIV among gay men.

Part II. Discusses the spread of HIV virus in South Africa. Role of migrant labor and practice of polygamy; Education of sex workers on the prevention of the disease.

Focuses on the failure rate of AIDS drugs. Case examples; Comments from physicians; Research findings on the issue.

Reports that South Africa announced that it will not make azidothymidine (AZT), an AIDS vaccine for babies, available to pregnant women. Reason behind South Africa's decision; Information on AZT; Percentage of adults in the country that are infected with the AIDS virus.

Reveals that the HIV epidemic among intravenous drug users in New York City is declining since the early 1990s. Refusal of United States President Bill Clinton to approve funding for needle exchange programs; Studies that show the decline in rate of HIV infections; Reasons for the decline.

Scrutinizes the ethical aspect of a study conducted by the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) on the use of fenfluramine on children. Purpose of the study; Information on fenfluramine procedure; Requirements of the procedure; Possible side effects of the drug.

Features Ken Moody's exercise classes. `Strength and Alignment' at Revolution as the most popular class of Moody; Reasons of his clients for signing up on his class; Effect of alopecia on Moody; How he ended up as an instructor; Motivations on his clients; Views of clients about Moody's classes.

Relates the experience and triumph of Gad Beck, leader of resistance movement Chung Chalusi, during the persecution of the Jews in 1942. Information about Chung Chalusi; Atrocities inflicted by the Nazis to gays and lesbians; How his homosexuality influenced how he fought; His involvement with Herr Wahlisch, a German soldier; Imprisonment of Gad; How he set other Jewish prisoners free.

Reflects on the implication of the continuous rise of mortality of women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in New York. Reason for the continued rise of deaths among HIV-positive women; Life stories of women with HIV; Speculations on the biological reasons of the increasing women's death rate; Social factors affecting substandard health care of HIV-positive women.

Presents information on Dawn Young, HIV-positive individual who has been denied the federal disability program. Reasons for the denial from availing the program; How people with HIV are stranded in medical uncertainty; Provisions of the governor's disability program; Young's inability to find employment; More information.

Looks at the public's response to the 4th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, the most prestigious annual AIDS science meeting. Estimated number of participants; Topic of discussion at the meeting; What scientist has discovered about the AIDS virus.

Reports that New York's Department of Health has failed to spend the federal money earmarked for HIV prevention. Amount of money that went unspent between 1993 and 1995; Problems which the unspent money represents; Comments from Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, director of the city's Bureau of HIV Program Services; Reference to the private management of the Ryan White grant. INSET: How does New York rate?..

States that according to Mario Cooper, an African-American who is HIV-positive, except for slavery, AIDS will kill many black people in a very short time. Statement made by Cooper at Harvard AIDS Institute, where 100 African American leaders had gathered; Facts about the disease; Views of the African American leaders; Number of African Americans diagnosed with HIV daily.

Reports on the increase in the risk behavior of homosexuals. Efforts of the Gay & Lesbian HIV Prevention Activists to regulate use of bathhouses; Statistics on unsafe sex by black and Hispanic gays; Risks of multiple sex partnering; Social responsibility of HIV-positive men.

Focuses on the services for AIDS patients in New York City. Establishment of the New York Division of AIDS Services (DAS); Regulations; DAS restructuring; Task forces; Agency flaws.

Highlights the international conference of the gay and lesbian community in Netherlands. Theme of the convention; Participation of academics and professionals; Names of the lecturers.

The article reports that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has pulled out all x-ray body scanners from U.S. airports because privacy software to automatically detect suspicious items on a person's body could not be developed in time to meet a congressionally mandated deadline.

The article reports on the result of a research conducted at the Ragon Institute, a joint project of Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, which investigated the possibility that some HIV sectors or group pf amino acids can be targeted for AIDS vaccines or drugs.

The article reports on the need to provide additional funding for the control of the AIDS epidemic, which will be discussed at the United Nations (UN) High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS to be held in New York City from June 8-10, 2011.

The article reports that a trial on HIV pill involving high-risk women in Africa has been stopped as researchers failed to determine whether taking the medication would be beneficial or not.

The article reports on the legislation introduced by two U.S. senators who intend to overturn a 1979 court injunction that prohibits the government from revealing what individual physicians earn from Medicare.

The article discusses the legislative bills introduced by Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden which aim to overturn a 1979 court injunction that prohibits publicly showing the earnings of physicians from Medicare.

This article reports on the lawsuits filed against 114 individuals on charges related to Medicare fraud after a crackdown by the U.S. federal government on healthcare crime on February 17, 2011.

The article reports on the discovery by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases suggesting that the virus which causes AIDS does not infect the human body easily and HIV's difficulties can be used to determine potential prevention and treatment methods.

The article discusses the improvements in the whole-body imaging technology also known as the virtual strip search for use in passenger security screening in airports aimed at protecting privacy.

The article reports that wide financial deficit and the drop in metal prices pose a threat to South Africa to be affected by the global financial crisis. The current-account deficit of the country was hardly hit when the trade deficit in September 2008 reached $729 million. Trevor Manuel, Finance Minister of South Africa said their economy will be protected from the effects of the global crisis. African National Congress head Jacob Zuma shares that their economic policies and financial discipline helped them absorb the impact of the financial crisis.

The article features Hawaii's probation program, HOPE, or Hawaii' Opportunity Probation with Enforcement. Crime experts say the probation program, started in 2004 by a U.S. attorney, has the potential to transform the nation's broken probation system and has reduced the number of probation violations among criminals, with some evidence showing that it can reduce repeat crimes. The success is due to flash incarceration that sends offenders immediately to jail for short sentences for violating any probation condition.

The article presents an itinerary for travelers who plan to go on a trip to the North Pole. It explains that there are flights out of Los Angeles, California to Moscow on board the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot for 900 dollars or from New York via Delta Airlines for 1,000 dollars. Once in Moscow, the journey continues with either another flight to Murmansk or a train ride to Chupa. The article also suggests that the peak ice-diving season is February to April.

The article reports on a meeting organized by local police chief with the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush regarding anticrime funds.

The article deals with the anticipated announcement by former U.S. President Bill Clinton on the price discounts secured by his foundation on medicines for AIDS patients in developing countries on January 12, 2006.

The article presents a reprint of the article "AIDS: The Agony of Africa," by Mark Schoofs, which appeared in the November 9, 1999 issue of "The Village Voice." It features regions in Africa which had been severely affected with AIDS, with Sahara as home to two-thirds of the world's HIV-positive people.

Details the agenda set by South African President Thabo Mbeki to address the economic and social development problems of the country as of October 12, 2004.

Focuses on the world-wide AIDS epidemic. How many people in developing countries are not getting efficient treatment and drugs for the disease due to lack of funding and other factors; Description of two major campaigns to fight AIDS; Way that programs are falling short of the goals that were set; Efforts to solve this global problem.

Discusses problems with drug procurement for AIDS victims and patients at the Mpilo Chest Hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, with international assistance from the U.S. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention and French group Doctors Without Borders.

Reports the Clinton Foundation, created by former United States President Bill Clinton, plans to announce deals with several of the world's leading medical companies to cut prices of two HIV diagnostic tests in developing nations. Comments from Jim Kim, adviser to the Director General of the World Health Organization, regarding the importance of diagnostic pricing; Concern among activists related to the test's ease of use in impoverished countries; Discussion of diagnostic pricing; View of doctors regarding the benefits of the tests on the drug treatment regimen given to patients; What the companies are including along with the test kits, including training and the machines necessary to run the tests; Companies that have signed the deal with the Clinton Foundation; Cost to the countries for the CD4 tests.

Presents news briefs on the economy and public finance as of October 17, 2003.

Reports on the protests organized by the Movement for Democratic Change against Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.

Reports on the agreement of AIDS researcher David Ho to conduct work on potential therapy and vaccine approaches for severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Reports that independent scientists contested a suggestion by VaxGen Inc. that its experimental AIDS vaccine protected some people against HIV infection.