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While a 42-year-old American is recovering from leukemia in a Berlin hospital, HIV specialists are discussing his HIV that is undetectable despite being off HIV medications for almost 2 years....

SANTIAGO, Nov 13 (IPS) - Chilean health Minister Álvaro Erazo reported Thursday that 512 people who tested positive for HIV were not notified by the public health system.

New york, Nov 13 (IPS) - In a country barely the size of the U.S. state of New Jersey, a disease has taken hold. Nearly 40 percent of Swaziland's population is HIV-positive, and the other 60 percent lives at constant risk for the disease.

SEATTLE, Washington, Nov 13 (IPS) - Working for sustainable development in Kenya, which ranks 148th out of 177 countries on the United Nations development index, is a daunting task. The country not only has a 6.1 percent rate of HIV/AIDS infection among its 37 million people, but nearly 60 percent of Kenyans live on less than two dollars a day.

Some health officials are concerned that a growing trend to criminalize the transmission of HIV will undercut gains made in the fight against the virus worldwide, the AP/Yahoo! News reports. According to a recently released report from the

People living with HIV/AIDS in Burundi often face the additional challenge of fighting the disease without proper nutrition because of a widespread food shortage in the country, IRIN/PlusNews reports.

Approximately 30% of Pakistan's injection drug users are living with HIV/AIDS, Arshad Altaf -- senior provincial surveillance support officer with an HIV/AIDS surveillance program called the Sindh AIDS Control Program that is managed jointly by Canada and Pakistan -- said on Wednesday at the International Symposium on Tropical medicine and Hygiene, Pakistan's

Doctors and experts are baffled by the case of a 42-year old male American patient living in Berlin whose 10-year long HIV infection appears to have been "cured" by a bone marrow transplant given to treat his acute myeloid leukemia.

Title: HIV Vaccine Failure Still Brings InsightsCategory: health newscreated: 11/14/2008 2:00:00 amlast Editorial review: 11/14/2008

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