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AIDS charity honors Bill Gates on eve of global conference

Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates arrives at a gala event for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) in Washington DC on July 21, via AFP

Leading AIDS charity amfAR honored Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates on the eve of the International AIDS Conference, for his part in funding an ongoing struggle against the disease. At a gala dinner at the Kennedy arts center Saturday, Gates accepted the Award of Courage on behalf of all scientists, health…

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Sex workers denied U.S. visa hold their own AIDS conference

A doctor conducts routine tests on an HIV-positive patient at a clinic in Bangalore on July 20, via AFP

Hundreds of sex workers from around the world who said they were denied visas to attend an international AIDS conference in the United States began their own meeting in Kolkata on Saturday in protest. Some 550 representatives of sex workers from India and 41 other countries were attending the seven-day…

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Study: HIV/AIDS treatment costs four times less than previously thought

Antiretroviral medicine are dislayed at a government hospital specilizing in HIV/AIDS in Jakarta in 2010. More than eight million people -- a record number in low- and middle-income countries -- are now taking antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV, according to data released Wednesday by UNAIDS. (AFP Photo/Adek Berry)

Lack of money can no longer be considered a reason – or an excuse – for failing to treat all those with HIV who need drugs to stay alive, following game-changing work about to be published by the Clinton Foundation that shows the real cost is four times less than…

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