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Thailand - AIDS vaccine trials
On September 24th 2009 researchers in Thailand announced that for the first time, an experimental vaccine prevented infection with the AIDS virus - a surprising result and a watershed event in the battle against the deadly epidemic....
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EL SALVADOR: EYE DISEASE EPIDEMIC
Spanish/Nat
Health officials in El Salvador have declared a state of alert following the spread of an eye epidemic throughout the country.
Over 700 people have already been infected by the disease - known as haemorrhagic conjunctivitis...
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Cholera victims treated in border town hospital
1. Wide of guards by gates Musina Hospital
2. Pan of cordoned off area where cholera patients are being treated within the hospital grounds
3. Parent with children who have contracted cholera lying in the shade within the re-hydration...
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Lady Gaga and Dr. Dre launch a new line of headphones for charity
AP Television
Las Vegas, NV. 7 Jan. 2009.
1. Wide shot of Lady Gaga on stage with Dr. Dre
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lady Gaga/Recording Artist
"Hi everybody, how are you doing? I was working with Bono on Red for his friend''s birthday...
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Hospital cleaners stage walkout amid long-running pay dispute
Cleaning staff at Gaza's hospitals have staged a walk-out in a long running dispute over pay.
Workers outside Shifa Hospital say they haven't been paid for six months - and are refusing to return to work until things have been...
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WHO says avian flu could spark human epidemic, poultry in market
1. NIGHT SHOT Exterior of Metropole hotel, location for World Health Organisation press conference
2. Journalists at press conference, then pan to speakers seated at table
3. Mid shot of speakers
4. Cutaway of journalists
5. Close-up of...
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WHO comments on pig-borne disease in China
1. Exterior World Health Organisation (WHO) office
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bob Dietz, WHO spokesman:
"WHO does not accept the fact that it's solely this one bacteria, this streptococcus suis type 2, which is causing all these illnesses....
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Digital weapon in the fight to reduce HIV infection
Indonesian health activists have developed the region's first mobile application, providing comprehensive information on HIV/AIDS to the public.
The app makes it easier for people to access medication and treatment in a confidential...
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SAfrica to launch large-scale HIV vaccine study
Researchers in South Africa will soon start conducting trials on a vaccine for HIV, following promising results in a previous trial held in Thailand.Dr Linda-Gail Bekker, the Deputy Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, said the...
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Clinton: On Opioid Epidemic,'This is Personal'
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton participated in an opioid drug abuse discussion, where she shared a story of how a former intern died from an opioid overdose. Clinton was part of a substance abuse and addiction...
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Heroin addiction spirals in Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN DRUG ADDICTS SOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 4.47SHOTLIST:AP Television Kabul 31, December 20161. Drug addict...
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Overcoming opioids - special schools help teens stay clean
LEADINThe United States is experiencing an epidemic level of fatal overdoses among users of opioid painkillers and heroin. These overdoses killed more than 500 U.S. teenagers in 2015.With lives on the line, researchers say teens fighting...
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UN: more than half of people with HIV are on drugs
For the first time in the global AIDS epidemic that has spanned four decades and killed 35 million people, more than half of all those infected with HIV are on drugs to treat the virus, the United Nations said in a report released on...
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Victim's Parents Skeptical of Trump Opioid Plans
A New Hampshire couple who lost their daughter to an opioid overdose say they didn't see enough concrete plans presented during President Donald Trump's speech on how he will combat the epidemic.
Jim and Anne Marie...
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AIDS group wary of Trump pledge to end HIV by 2030
President Donald Trump is launching a campaign to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030, targeting areas where new infections happen and getting highly effective drugs to people at risk.
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AIDS group wary of Trump pledge to end HIV by 2030
President Donald Trump is launching a campaign to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030, targeting areas where new infections happen and getting highly effective drugs to people at risk.
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First lady: Opioids 'taken hold of our country'
First lady Melania Trump described the scale of the opioid epidemic in the U.S. and says she is struck by how it has touched the lives of so many people.
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China: virus origin mustn't stigmatize countries
China said on Wednesday that no one should use the question of the origin of the novel coronavirus to stigmatize other countries.
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Interview with professor on virus from Wuhan
An epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization’s response to the SARS outbreak said on Tuesday that it's too early to tell when the new coronavirus outbreak will peak.
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COVID-19 vaccine testing in people gets underway
U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday -- leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.
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Coronavirus out-of-pocket costs could top $1300
Potential out-of-pocket costs for someone with private insurance who gets hospitalized with the coronavirus could exceed $1,300, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation released Monday. That includes...