United States International Strategy on HIV/AIDS.U.S. Department of State, 1995 - 46 pages |
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... infected individuals have lived for twelve years or more with no sign of AIDS , the large majority of HIV - infected individuals develop AIDS and die within years . Unlike other infectious disease epidemics such as cholera or plague 2.
... infected individuals have lived for twelve years or more with no sign of AIDS , the large majority of HIV - infected individuals develop AIDS and die within years . Unlike other infectious disease epidemics such as cholera or plague 2.
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Unlike other infectious disease epidemics such as cholera or plague , AIDS will not likely run its course and subside , at least in the foreseeable future . Without more effective response strategies and massive behavioral and societal ...
Unlike other infectious disease epidemics such as cholera or plague , AIDS will not likely run its course and subside , at least in the foreseeable future . Without more effective response strategies and massive behavioral and societal ...
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... epidemic in their own countries . They will develop more reliable statistics and better train more staff to monitor the spread of HIV / AIDS . The NIH and its Fogarty International Center will establish and strengthen international ...
... epidemic in their own countries . They will develop more reliable statistics and better train more staff to monitor the spread of HIV / AIDS . The NIH and its Fogarty International Center will establish and strengthen international ...
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... epidemic is steadily increasing in poorer populations who have limited access to information about HIV and AIDS and / or preventive health services and limited ability to act on the information they may have . As societies improve ...
... epidemic is steadily increasing in poorer populations who have limited access to information about HIV and AIDS and / or preventive health services and limited ability to act on the information they may have . As societies improve ...
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... epidemic will complicate ongoing sustainable development efforts . While AIDS has adversely impacted the skilled , urban workforce in developing countries , the disease will also have an increasingly devastating impact in rural regions ...
... epidemic will complicate ongoing sustainable development efforts . While AIDS has adversely impacted the skilled , urban workforce in developing countries , the disease will also have an increasingly devastating impact in rural regions ...
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agenda AIDS Policy Director AIDS prevention AIDS research appropriate behavior change behavioral research behavioral strategies biomedical research blood supply collaboration continue coordination Department of Defense Department will convene developing countries donors drugs effective epidemic establishment female condom Fogarty International Center global HIV/AIDS health services HIV infection HIV transmission HIV vaccines HIV/AIDS efforts HIV/AIDS issue HIV/AIDS pandemic HIV/AIDS prevention human rights impact of HIV/AIDS improve increasingly interagency working group international partners international research interventions Joint U.N. Programme leaders living with HIV/AIDS military National AIDS Policy NGOs non-governmental organizations number of AIDS opportunistic infections Peace Corps peacekeeping peacekeeping operations preventing infection prevention efforts prevention strategies preventive technologies priorities Programme on AIDS promote reduce research efforts risk behaviors role sexually transmitted diseases social spread of HIV/AIDS Thailand U.N. agencies U.S. Census Bureau U.S. foreign policy UNICEF USAID USG agencies vaccine development women worldwide
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Page 34 - Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Page 20 - The National Science and Technology Council's Committee on International Science, Engineering, and Technology...
Page 16 - ... the rights of individuals, in particular those living with or most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, through the legal and social environment, fully involve nongovernmental and community-based organizations as well as people living with HIV/AIDS in the formulation and implementation of public policies, ensure equal protection under the law for persons living with HIV/AIDS with regard to access to health care, employment, education, travel, housing and social welfare...
Page 6 - Mann JM. The World Health Organization's global strategy for the prevention and control of AIDS.
Page 19 - US ambassadors and other embassy representatives will meet with host country counterparts to describe the US International Strategy on HIV/AIDS and to encourage leaders to expand HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation programs. Emphasis will be placed on the important role that NGOs, business groups, people living with HIV/AIDS, and community organizations should play in an effective response to HIV/AIDS.
Page 43 - HIV/AIDS epidemic and the necessity to involve a wide, diverse range of people and organizations to mobilize an effective response, coordination of national and international efforts is complex but critical.
Page 5 - Increase the political and economic commitment by foreign leaders to stem the spread and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS...
Page 16 - The risk runs both ways; peacekeepers could both be a source of HIV infection to local populations and be infected by them, thus becoming a source of the infection when they return home.