Gambia: Unfpa Launches World Population Report (AllAfrica.com: Fri, 01 Dec) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) office in Banjul yesterday launched its State of the World Population 2006 report on the theme: "A passage to hope; women and international migration" at Paradise Suits Hotel.
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World AIDS Day celebrated in Rochester (News 10 NBC Rochester: Sat, 02 Dec) Friday was World Aids Day and there were plenty of local events. Rochester has the largest HIV and AIDs population per capita in New York State, but even with the problems here, the local HIV and AIDS community gathered Friday night to support others.
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World AIDS Day: The Heartless Pandemic (Vibe Magazine: Sat, 02 Dec) World AIDS Day: The Heartless Pandemic "Today is World AIDS Day and I am humbled to be present in Africa where the pandemic of HIV/AIDS is a deadly reality for millions of people," said Russell Simmons via a statement from Kimberley, Africa, where he led his Simmons Jewelry Company fact-finding delegation today (Dec. 1).
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Free HIV Testing on World AIDS Day (KTRE-TV East Texas: Sat, 02 Dec) African-Americans make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population, but more than half of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses. HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for black women around Jamie Washington's age - 25-34 - that's why she got tested.
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Warnings, worship mark World AIDS Day (AP via Yahoo! News: Fri, 01 Dec) World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of additional deaths.
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'World World Z' is a must read for zombie fans (Indiana Statesman: Fri, 01 Dec) REVIEW Some time between 2008 and 2010 the world will be thrust into a battle with the most important stakes imaginable on the line: extinction of the human race. The war will last more than a decade and approximately two-thirds of the world's population will die, or worse, become zombies.
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World AIDS Day marked with warnings, services, art actions (USA Today: Fri, 01 Dec) With ceremonies across the globe and the display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in the USA, World AIDS Day is being marked around the world today. Confronting the epidemic "requires every one of us help bring AIDS out of the shadows, and spread the message that silence is death," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in New York.
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