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Performers playact their symptoms for future health-care professionals
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US Government providing millions of dollars for cutting-edge research, caregiver support and educating people about the disease
Human Rights Watch finds epidemic in Zamfara State the worst in modern history
Brain abnormalities found in addicts and their non-addicted siblings
Calls for tougher legislation issued on ninth International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
Device that lets people speak their minds could soon be a reality
UN applauds impressive gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS, establishes a goal to halt, reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015
World Health Organization disputes new study that claims nearly twice as many people are dying of malaria than current estimates
London initiative draws almost $800 million in pledges to combat 10 diseases, that affect more than a billion people
Acts on cellular level in the same way as many pain medications
Citizens complain that government response to outbreak is inadequate
UN says reaching goal will require major increases in intensive, high-efficiency livestock operations for both meat, dairy
Could be indicator of vascular risk and death
Machine fires bursts of ultraviolet light that penetrate cells of micro-organisms and kill them
Initiative is largest coordinated effort ever undertaken to combat these diseases that afflict more than a billion people globally
