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Fight against AIDS threatened by lack of money, leadership, U.N. head says
By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Global progress fighting AIDS could be lost because prevention programs are suffering from a lack of leadership, accountability and funding, the head of the United Nations warned on Friday. Headway in tackling the epidemic has been “inspiring,” with a 42 percent decline in AIDS-related deaths since…
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Romania: Drug company, hospitals probed in disinfectant row
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities have conducted searches at hospitals and the offices of a drug company which authorities say has supplied dozens of hospitals with a sub-standard disinfectant.
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Court says Australia cannot force asylum seeker to have abortion in PNG
By Peter Gosnell SYDNEY (Reuters) – A pregnant woman who says she was raped at an Australia detention center for asylum seekers on the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru cannot be forced to have an abortion in Papua New Guinea because it is unsafe and illegal, a court has ruled. Under Australia’s hardline immigration…