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• New hope on AIDS in corner of ravaged Africa
Dr Klaus Wiswedel from the Cape Fertility Clinic at the clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. The clinic is the first in Africa to open a dedicated laboratory for HIV positive patients, enabling them to conceive and give birth to an HIV-negative baby by ...
• Travel pinched by global financial crisis
Markets in the Middle East and Africa, where hotel supply is still catching up with rising demand, are bucking the trend. Occupancy in both Dubai and Cairo gained during October. President and Chief Executive Ted Teng of The Leading Hotels of the ...
• Bush, first lady mark World AIDS Day
WASHINGTON - President Bush says his presidential initiative has already met its goal of treating two million people with the deadly AIDS disease in sub-Saharan Africa. The White House said on World Aids Day that when the administration launched the ...
• Oprah asks court to dismiss defamation suit
PHILADELPHIA - Oprah Winfrey wants a court to dismiss or order arbitration in a defamation lawsuit filed by the ex-headmistress of her girls school in South Africa. Nomvuyo Mzamane sued over remarks the media mogul made following sex-abuse complaints ...
• Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some say so
They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread has largely been curbed in much of the world, Africa excepted. "AIDS is a terrible humanitarian tragedy, but it's just one of many terrible humanitarian tragedies ...