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Israel - Lack of medication for AIDS victims
Israeli victims of AIDS are being denied the "cocktail" of drugs which is the only known way of increasing the life expectancy of patients. There is no cure for AIDS but the combination drug therapy has proved effective in slowing down...
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STORY:A measles epidemic in Peru has prompted authorities there to
intensify a nationwide vaccination campaign that was launched in
August. Since the first cases were recorded a year ago, hundreds of
children have caught the disease,...
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Bill Gates donates $100m to Global Fund to fight AIDS.
1. Wideshot press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Patty Stonesifer, President of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
"As I have already identified global health is a top priority of the foundation and reducing HIV transmission as the...
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WRAP UN chief Ban and WHO chief Chan ADDS meeting, US presser
Drug manufacturers will not be able to start making a swine flu vaccine until mid-July at the earliest, months later than previous predictions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
The disclosure that making a swine flu...
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WHO and FAO officials comment ahead of bird flu summit
1. Various exteriors of the World Health Organisation (WHO) building
2. WHO door and sign
3. Assistant Director General, Communicable Diseases, WHO, Margaret Chan, sitting at desk.
4. TV screen showing statistics of H5N1virus in...
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Rally outside US consulate for more spending on AIDS treatments
1. Wide exterior of US consulate, pan to demonstrators singing, calling for more support from the US government for AIDS programmes
2. Mid shot protesters wearing tops reading (English) "HIV positive"
3. Close of poster reading (English)...
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Opening press conference as global AIDS summit begins
1. Zoom-out from flags to wide of the facade of the venue of the 3rd International AIDS Society Conference
2. Wide of entrance, people going inside
3. Wide of people in the conference
4. Various of conference
5. Wide of press...
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EU: BELGIUM: REPORT CLAIMS BLAME SHOULD BE SHARED FOR BSE EPIDEMIC
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The British government and the European Commission must share the blame for the BSE crisis in UK herds, according to a report from the European Parliament.
The report, drawn up by a committee of MEPs, is based upon a 6 month...
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Initiative launched in country to test population for HIV
1. Wide of HIV testing tents
2. Pan down from HIV testing sign to woman getting tested
3. Wide of t-shirt reading 'Know you HIV status'
4. Wide of Ndagire Mirriam sitting down to get tested
5. Close of blood being drawn from Ndagire...
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Chan outlines ways for WHO to tackle big crises
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYGeneva - 18 May 20151. Wide of World Health Organisation (WHO), Director-General Margaret Chan approaching lectern2. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan,...
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Doctors testing plasma as "immune therapy"
Doctors around the world are dusting off a century-old treatment for infections: Infusions of blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that helped survivors beat the new coronavirus.
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Doctors testing plasma as "immune therapy"
Doctors around the world are dusting off a century-old treatment for infections: Infusions of blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that helped survivors beat the new coronavirus.
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RKI: Germany's virus infections rate has dropped
Germany's disease control center says the country's rate of coronavirus infections has dropped, but recommends more testing to treat more people and to trace infection chains.
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Economist's warnings on inequality amid pandemic
Renowned French economist Thomas Piketty pocketed a small fortune from the publication of a weighty book about the perils of economic inequality and the necessity of wealth taxes.
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Ex CDC head: We're at the begging of virus 'storm'
The former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday warned the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. will "get worse before it gets better."
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WHO presser says SARS is on retreat in all countries bar China
1. Wide shot WHO press conference on SARS
2. Cutaway man in audience
3. Screen with world map entitled SARS: cumulative number of cases worldwide
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Heymann, WHO chief of Communicable Diseases
"So we believe...
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Protest against US delegate at AIDS conference
1. US AIDS coordinator Randall Tobias walking to podium to address XV International AIDS conference
2. Various shots of protestors in audience chanting and waving placards reading (English), 'He's lying' as they walk towards stage
3....
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European health ministers approve anti-obesity charter
1. Various shots of overweight people
2. Close-up of a man eating sandwich
3. Various shots of the World Health Organisation (WHO) European Ministerial Conference on Counteracting Obesity
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mazo Danzo, World...
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THAILAND : ASIAN PACIFIC AIDS CONFERENCE
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Burmese citizens illegally crossing the border to seek work in Thailand are being blamed for Burma's rising AIDS problem.
At this week's International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, in Thailand, experts say Burma...
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WRAP Bush visits stock exchange, Pasteur Institute, ceremonial dance, departure
1. Wide of exterior of City Museum
2. Smiling boy playing drum
3. US President George W. Bush walking down stairs of museum with First Lady Laura Bush
4. Boy on drum, pan to Bushes watching dance
5. Bushes clapping
6. Wide of dragons...
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Cuban - American doctors to combat dengue epidemic
0.00 Various of Cuban-American medical team visiting Benjamin Bloom Children's Hospital
0.10 Doctors at intensive care unit observing dengue fever infected children
0.27 Doctors observing children and facility
0.31 Doctors speaking to...
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Passengers aboard a cruise ship on which hundreds fell ill recalled days of misery as the Explorer of the Seas returned to its home port Wednesday. The Caribbean trip cut short by a suspected outbreak of norovirus. (Jan. 29)
Passengers aboard a cruise ship on which hundreds fell ill recalled days of misery being holed up in their rooms as the Explorer of the Seas returned to its home port Wednesday after a Caribbean trip cut short by a suspected outbreak of...
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STORY: In January, an outbreak of cholera was reported in
the Peruvian coastal town of Chimbote. By the first week
in February it had spread down the entire coast and
inland, to be...