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Global economic crisis threatens fight against AIDS (AFP)

AFP - The global fight against HIV/AIDS is threatened by stagnating economies around the world, which have caused governments to shrink their budgets and, with them, grants to fight the illness.

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Obama looks to Bush’s worldwide strategy on AIDS (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama is trying to bring home some of the much-lauded strategies his predecessor used to fight AIDS around the world.

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UN forms team to look at impact of discriminatory AIDS laws (AFP)

AFP - The United Nations Development Programme and UNAIDS said Thursday that they have formed a commission to examine the impact of laws around the world that discriminate against people living with HIV.

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Nations pledge crackdown on online alcohol ads (AP)

AP - Countries around the world are pledging to get tough with companies that market beer and liquor on social media networks such as Facebook, warning that such promotions threaten to entice a new generation into harmful drinking patterns.

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Minority Kids Lack Enough Vitamin D (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) — Vitamin D deficiency is a common health problem around the world, experts say, and the problem may be especially severe in the United States among poor black and Hispanic children, researchers report.

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Aid group lists Top 10 worst humanitarian crises (Reuters)

Reuters - Governments around the world are blocking aid to trapped populations and people with HIV/AIDS are being turned away from health clinics because funding is lagging, Doctors Without Borders said in a bleak report outlining the world’s 10 worst humanitarian crises.

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Better Educated May Have Greater Asthma Control (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec.

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Vision loss in diabetics becoming less common (Reuters)

Reuters - People who were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in more-recent decades may be less likely to suffer vision loss than their predecessors.

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Inhalers may raise risk of asthma in some children (Reuters)

Reuters - Common asthma reliever drugs taken by millions of children around the world may increase the risk of asthma attacks in some patients with a particular genetic make-up, British scientists said on Tuesday.

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Prominent US general Petraeus treated for prostate cancer (AFP)

AFP - General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year but underwent “successful” treatment for the illness, his office said Tuesday.

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Prominent US general Petraeus treated for prostate cancer
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