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December 2, 2007

The 20th World Aids Day, and What's Changed?

by Nina Brenjo, Alertnet - In USA for example, the rate of HIV/AIDS diagnosis is 20 times higher for black women than their white counterparts.

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The Castaways of Illegal Immigration

by Catherine Norris Trent and Virginie Herz, France 24, France - Around 600 illegal immigrants live in makeshift camps around the northern French harbour town...

AIDS Spreads to Haunt Philippines' Modern-Day Heroes

by Ana Santos and Xu Lingui, Xinhua, China - There are 5 million people in Asia living with HIV/AIDS with around 400,000 people being newly...

Muslims Must Confront the Truth about Mumbai

by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent, UK - Denial and obfuscation once again stop us from examining who the killers were, why they did what they...

Pirates Hurting Egypt through the Suez

by Tamsin Carlisle, The National, United Arab Emirates - Egypt’s 82 million people have enough economic worries without Somali pirates cutting into the government’s revenues....

Laos Still Paying the Price of Vietnam War

by Thin Lei Win, Reuters, UK - Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. military dropped more than 2 million tons of explosive ordnance, including an...