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Canada sells combined AIDS drugs to Rwanda

afrol News - Canada's largest generic pharmaceutical company, Apotex, has won a tender to supply life saving triple combination AIDS drug "Apo Triavir" to the government of Rwanda.

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'South Africa faces threat'

afrol News - The Democratic Alliance leader has told hundreds of people at the KwaZulu-Natal Freedom Day celebrations in Molweni, outside Durban that South Africa faced a new threat 14 years after the first democratic election.

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Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff?

afrol News - A growing number of researchers question the "official" inflated numbers of HIV/AIDS prevalence in African countries such as Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. Poor testing, a special diagnosis of AIDS in Africa and erroneous computer-generated estimates by the UN had led to "misleading" numbers, they hold. The history of AIDS in Uganda serves as proof.

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Abuse of women escalates HIV infections in Africa

afrol News - Violations of women's rights escalates the rate of HIV infections throughout the continent. Sexual oppression combined with a high biological receptiveness of viral transmission, put women at risk. As a consequence, the violence against women threatens to destroy whole communities.

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