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 Africa Information - October 6, 2008
| This year's biggest AIDS conference will take place in Rio de Janeiro, bringing together over 5,000 scientists and doctors to discuss the latest developments in AIDS prevention and treatment. A record number of scientific studies, focusing on developments in treatments, vaccines and basic science, will be presented | | This year's biggest AIDS conference is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, bringing together over 5,000 scientists and doctors to discuss the latest developments in AIDS prevention and treatment. A record number of scientific studies, focusing on developments in treatments, vaccines and basic science, will be presented | | Former President Bill Clinton is making a pledge to aid Kenya in the expansion of HIV/AIDS care and treatment. Clinton says his foundation received grants worth $1.5 million to help train medical workers for rural areas in this East African nation for particular treatment of children and people in those areas who tend to receive the fewest services in poor countries | | Former President Bill Clinton is making a pledge to aid Kenya in the expansion of HIV/AIDS care and treatment. Clinton says his foundation received grants worth $1.5 million to help train medical workers for rural areas in this East African nation for particular treatment of children and people in those areas who tend to receive the fewest services in poor countries | | Officials announced Tuesday, a pet hamster blamed for spreading a virus that killed three transplant patients in April, was traced to an Ohio-based distribution center, which supplies hamsters to pet stores across the East Coast. State and federal investigators quarantined the distribution center Monday, and plan on testing the animals for the virus, in hopes of tracing its origin | |
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