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Aids Awareness Competition in medical colleges - Peshawar

The country director of UNAIDS Pakistan Afghanistan, Osama Tavil, said that youth can make big role to prevent the Aids in Pakistan. He was talking...

by MusarratUllah Jan in Pakistan on 22/12/2011

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HIV/AIDS Vaccine to begin human trials - Canada

Researchers at the University of Western Ontario have announced that they will begin human clinical trials of the SAV001 HIV/AIDS vaccination in...

by Mark Spowart in Canada on 20/12/2011

Society

World AIDS Day commemorated in Indonesia

Members of the transgender community staged a World Aids Day rally in Solo to highlight HIV/AIDS discrimination they feel is shown by managers of...

by rudianto a in Indonesia on 02/12/2011

22/12/2011 - Aids Awareness Competition in medical colleges - Peshawar - Pakistan - The country director of UNAIDS Pakistan...
20/12/2011 - HIV/AIDS Vaccine to begin human trials - Canada - Canada - Researchers at the University of...
02/12/2011 - World AIDS Day commemorated in Indonesia - Indonesia - Members of the transgender community...
01/12/2011 - World AIDS Day celebrated in Gdansk - Poland - People in Gdansk lit candles in a The...
01/12/2011 - London Eye shines red to mark World AIDS Day - United Kingdom - London eye turned its color to red...
01/12/2011 - Rally for World AIDS Day - Kathmandu - Nepal - World AIDS Day, which aims to raise...
01/12/2011 - World AIDS Day - 'HIV/AIDS cases rising' - Bangladesh - People celebrate World Aids Day 2011,...
01/12/2011 - World Aids Day marked at Agartala - India - India - An all-Indian survey conducted ahead of...
01/12/2011 - World AIDS Day 2011 in Dublin - Ireland - December 1st every year, is dedicated...
01/12/2011 - Mauritius celebrates World AIDS Day - Mauritius - Official statistics revealed in Port-...

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