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HIV positive Mexicans protest outside
the social security ministry against
budget cuts that have reduced to ten
from eighteen the drugs they receive
from the state to keep the retrovirus in
check April 29, 2002. The HIV sufferers
claim they need all 18 drugs to control
the virus otherwise they will succumb to
AIDS. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar
REF: MEXICO AIDS
Bridegroom Cao Xueliang, 37, and his 34
year-old bride Wang Daiying show their
marriage certificate at their wedding
banquet in their native town of Gongmin
in the southwestern province of Sichuan
on August 1, 2003. The HIV-positive
couple wed publicly for the first time
in China in a ceremony widely reported
in state newspapers, a sign more
sufferers may be ready to tackle rampant
discrimination. Picture taken on August
1. REUTERS/China
Photo
REF: HEALTH CHINA AIDS
BAN03D:BANGKOK,9JUL00 - Young Thai AIDS
sufferers, most of whose parents have
already died from the disease, enjoy
posing for the camera at the Phyathai
Babies Home in Bangkok July 9. Thailand'
s government estimates that up to 86,000
children across the country will be
infected with HIV or AIDS by 2001, with
the figure at under 20,000 last year. On
the eve of a global conference on AIDS
in Durban, South Africa, the issue of
children with AIDS will be one of the
topics that will be tackled on the first
day of the conference. REUTERS/Photo
by Sukree Sukplang
REF: THAILAND AIDS
Liu Ziliang, the first HIV-positive
Chinese to use his real name in the
media, contracted HIV after he sold his
blood in Henan province in 1999. Liu
stops to speak during a nationwide
bicycle tour to promote AIDS prevention
in Nanjing, Jiangsu province March 11,
2002 China puts the number of confirmed
HIV/AIDS cases at 28,133 but some
experts say the number has been rising
by up to 30 percent every year and the
real figure could be well above 600,000.
REUTERS/China
Photo
REF: CHINA
An HIV-infected man, named David, who
refused to give his last name, feeds his
3-month-old nephew Aiem, also infected
with HIV, during a protest to demand
better quality drugs and an increase in
the health budget for AIDS patients, in
Buenos Aires, November 30, 2001. There
are more than 19,000 registred cases of
AIDS in Argentina but officials say the
true number of people affected by the
virus could be closer to 130,000. The
picture shows Argentine Health Minister
Hector Lombardo with a painted eye patch.
REUTERS/Enrique
Marcarian
REF: ARGENTINA AIDS
A Chinese man infected with the HIV
virus sits on a bed at the Youan
Hospital in Beijing November 28, 2002.
China faces a ballooning AIDS epidemic
with the United Nations estimating that
as many as 10 million people could be
infected by 2010 if effective measures
are not taken. U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan recently called for the &
quotcomplete mobilisation" of
Chinese society to combat the growing
AIDS problem which the government has
only recently started to admit to.
Picture taken November 28, 2002.
REUTERS/Guang
Niu
REF: CHINA
Demonstrators protest outside the South
African Parliament, February 20, 2002,
demanding the provision free anti-
retroviral drugs in state hospitals to
prevent mother to child transmission of
the AIDS virus. The government of
President Thabo Mbeki has come under
increasing criticism from health bodies
and non-governmental organisations over
it's failure to provide the drugs and to
formulate a clear policy to deal with
the pandemic. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
REF: SAFRICA BUDGET
Chinese farmer Wang Weijun hugs his
three-year-old HIV infected daughter
Wang Kaijia at their home in Hangdan
city in Hebei province November 28, 2000.
The girl contracted HIV from her mother
Jin Shuangyin, who died of AIDS in May
last year after a blood transfusion at a
hospital. China, lacking a national
screening programme, will face AIDS-
related epidemics as cases involving
blood transfusion patients,
heterosexuals and homosexuals are rising
rapidly. December 1 marks the World Aids
Day. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China
Photo
REF: CHINA AIDS
AIDS patient Somjid Chantra, 37,
carrying his HIV-positive six-year-old
daughter, attends a rally in front of
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's
office at Government House in Bangkok
November 30, 2001. Some 500 Thais
afflicted with AIDS, protested on Friday
to demand for benefits under a
government-subsidisd medical programme.
REUTERS/Sukree
Sukplang
REF: THAILAND-AIDS
Indian sex worker watches a street play
for AIDS awareness on the eve of World
Aids Day in a red light area of Bombay
November 30, 2002. Four million Indians
have HIV or AIDS, making it second only
to South Africa with the most sufferers
as shame, prejudice and poverty are
fueling India's HIV AIDS epidemic. The
country risks having the largest number
of people in the world infected with the
disease within a few years. REUTERS/
Roy
Madhur
REF: INDIA
Sifiso, a two-year-old boy with AIDS,
holds a toy at the Cotlands child
sanctuary in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sifiso is just one of the 200 babies
who are born HIV-positive every day in
South Africa. By 2005 South African will
have around one million AIDS orphans
under age of 15, rising to about 2.5
million in 2010, according to AIDS
campaign group Love Life. Pictures taken
November 20, 2001. REUTERS/Juda
Ngwenya
REF: SAFRICA AIDS
CAL02D:CALCUTTA,INDIA,10JUL00 - A
volunteer (R) demonstrates the use of
condoms to a group of prostitutes to
prevent the spread of the HIV virus at
Sonagachi, the 300-year old red-light
district of the eastern Indian city of
Calcutta July 10. India has an estimated
3.7 million people infected with the
virus. Voluteers groups say that only
about 5 percent of the prostitutes in
Sonagachi are infected compared with
more than 50 percent in red light areas
of Bombay and Delhi. REUTERS/Photo by
Jayanta Shaw
REF: INDIA
Chinese children look at a giant condom
during an exhibition in Guangzhou to
mark the World Aids Day December 1, 2001.
The U.N. estimated China could have 10
million HIV carriers by 2010 if China
failed to control the epidemic.
REUTERS/China
Photo
REF: AIDS CHINA
Jackline Namusia and her two year-old
son Peter Ochanda, both HIV positive,
hold a trophy on July 9, 2002, outside
St.Pauls Catholic church in Nairobi
after a memorial service for her husband.
The trophy will be up for grabs at a
soccer competition aiming to sensitize
the community in the village where her
husband came from. Namusia's family were
the first Kenyans to declare publicly
that one of their family members had
died of AIDS last year. Since the
epidemic began, over 21.8 million lives
have been claimed by AIDS, almost 15
million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
REUTERS/Antony
Njuguna
REF: KENYA AIDS
An Indian activist paints his face with
the Indian national flag and Aids'
awareness slogans on World Aids Day in
Bhopal December 1, 2002. The rally was
organised by the ministry for health to
highlight the dangers of the HIV virus.
REUTERS/Raj
Patidar
REF: INDIA
Nappu, 44, of the Akha hill tribe, holds
her child while taking a dose of
methadone, a substitution treatment for
heroin and opium, in the Mae Rin
district nearly 40km west of Chiang Rai
on July 17, 2003. The limited methadone
programme, which costs 10 Thai Baht (.25
U.S. dollars) per-person per-day, is
being used as an HIV prevention strategy
in Northern Thailand to protect
injecting drug users from contracting
HIV through dirty and shared needles.
Since the maintenance program started in
1996, not a single drug user has
contracted HIV in the village. REUTERS/
Adrees
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