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Global Challenges - Public Hearing Examines Issues Faced by Children in Thailand, Including HIV/AIDS, Lack of Sex Education
Thailand's Office of Welfare Promotion, Protection and Empowerment of Vulnerable People earlier this week held a public hearing to discuss various risks facing the country's children, including HIV/AIDS, Thailand's The Nation reports. The office plans to present a draft report on the state of child rights in
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2009-05-15

Drug Access - Uganda Conference Addresses Antiretroviral Treatment Access Among Children
World Vision Uganda recently hosted a conference to examine issues surrounding antiretroviral drug access among children in the country, the New Vision/AllAfrica.com reports. More than 100 children from various schools throughout the country participated in the conference in an effort to create strategies fo
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2008-04-08

Global Challenges - China To Increase HIV Prevention Funding to $185M Annually in 2006, 2007
China will spend about $185 million annually in 2006 and 2007 on HIV prevention, nearly double the approximately $98.7 million allocated for 2005, the China Daily reports. According to a report published by the China Youth and Children Research Center and the Department of International Communications of the
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2006-01-03

Global Challenges - UNICEF Project Uses Children, Youth as Peer Educators To Increase HIV/AIDS Awareness in India
About 400 children from eight Indian states gathered Wednesday at a workshop to discuss their experiences as peer educators in a joint UNICEF-National AIDS Control Organization pilot project that aims to increase HIV awareness among children and youth, the Times of India reports. The groups launched the proj
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2008-05-30

Across The Nation - AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families Holds Annual Conference
The AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families concludes its annual three-day conference today in Washington, D.C. AIDS Alliance, a national, not-for-profit organization, represents more than 500 HIV/AIDS community-based organizations that provide HIV prevention, care and research in the United States (
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2002-05-07

Global Challenges - Children's Center Aims To Promote Home-Based HIV Testing Among Youth in Botswana
The Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Center of Excellence recently provided home-based HIV tests to orphans and vulnerable children, as well as their parents and caretakers, in Gaborone, Botswana, the Mmegi reports. According to a survey conducted in 2006 by the center's outreach program, home-based HIV t
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2008-04-23

Across The Nation - South Florida Program Aimed at HIV-Positive Youth Loses Funding
Treasure the Children, a program in Royal Palm Beach, Fla., that aims to empower HIV-positive young people and reduce stigma surrounding the disease is at risk because it is losing a large amount of funding, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. According to the Sun-Sentinel, Treasure the Children runs Cha
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2008-07-15

Global Challenges - Youth in East Asia, Pacific 'Woefully Unprepared' for HIV/AIDS, UNICEF Survey Finds
Young people in the Pacific and East Asia are 'woefully unprepared' to handle HIV/AIDS, a survey of 10,000 youth ages nine to 17 conducted by UNICEF shows, Reuters/Contra Costa Times reports. The survey, presented in Beijing at the Fifth Ministerial Consultation in East Asia and the Pacific, titled 'Shaping
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2001-05-14

In The Courts - Foster Parents, Pennsylvania County Youth Services Agency Settle Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination in HIV-Positive Foster Child Policy
A Centre County, Pa., agency that prevented a couple with an adopted HIV-positive son from caring for HIV-negative children has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by the couple and agreed to change its policy, the Associated Press reports. U.S. Middle District Senior Judge James McClure, who in 1999 ru
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2002-01-18

Global Challenges - USA Today Profiles Partnership Among Baylor College of Medicine, Romanian Government, NGOs To Help HIV-Positive Children
USA Today on Tuesday profiled several U.S.-Romanian programs aimed at helping HIV-positive Romanian youth, most of whom contracted the virus from unscreened blood transfusions. Mark Kline, a pediatric AIDS specialist at Baylor College of Medicine, in 1996 following a visit to the country put in motion a plan
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2005-02-08