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  • by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes, Tom Robinson
World News and Trends: This June, the 14th annual international AIDS conference, in Barcelona, Spain, led to the usual calls for the United States and other wealthy nations to spend more to fight AIDS.
  • by Melvin Rhodes
The recent International AIDS Conference in Barcelona called on rich nations to spend still more money on AIDS. Governments spending more money won't solve this or any other problem.
  • by Cecil Maranville, Jim Tuck, John Ross Schroeder
It wasn't spotted until 1989, but hepatitis C is already killing 10,000 people annually, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) predicts that by 2010, it will claim more victims than AIDS.
  • by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder
On the AIDS front, a terrifying report announced on June 1 shows that 32 percent of young black homosexual men in the United States are infected with the AIDS virus.
  • by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes
"... HIV infections are disturbingly common among gay men of all races in their 20s, especially considering that they grew up knowing how AIDS spreads," says an Associated Press report on the recent eighth annual Retrovirus Conference in Chicago.
  • by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder
WHO estimates that 3 million people worldwide will die from AIDS during the year 2000. The agency estimates that this will bring the total number of adults and children who have died because of the disease to 21.8 million.
  • by Melvin Rhodes
The AIDS epidemic, increasingly compared to the dreaded black death of the 1300s, has taken millions of lives and promises to take millions more. Yet, tragically, we ignore the only real solution to this deadly plague.
  • by Good News
More than 11 million children have been orphaned by the AIDS epidemic since it was first recognized in 1981, with another two million expected to be orphaned by the end of 2000, according to a recent United Nations report.
  • by Howard Davis
Our world's astounding technical and scientific progress, coupled with spreading global prosperity over recent decades, masks enormous suffering in the world. Today's mixture of burgeoning progress and explosive suffering is as deceptive to humanity as it was to the ancient Egyptians.
  • by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
New research and statistics indicate that Britain's young people are increasingly ignoring warnings about the dangers of AIDS and other sexually transmissible diseases and are reverting to promiscuous sexual behavior-with predictable results.
  • by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
In recent years scientists and physicians hailed new AIDS treatments that appeared to halt the virus's advance and bring considerable improvement to patients in advanced stages of the disease.