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Science Won't Stop Until it Beats AIDS, Says HIV Pioneer
More than 30 years after she identified one of the most pernicious viruses to infect humankind, Francoise Barre Sinoussi, who shared a Nobel prize for discovering HIV, is hanging up her lab coat and retiring.
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Colleagues Hail AIDS Pioneer Killed in Downed Malaysian Plane
AIDS researcher Joep Lange, killed in the Malaysian jet crash in Ukraine, was a pioneer of cheap anti-retrovirals for the poor, colleagues said on Friday, remembering him as a man of compassion and vision.
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When diseases have a bad name, change is hard
Some diseases just have a bad name. But even when their commonly known labels glorify Nazi doctors or slander certain ethnic groups, old habits are hard to change, experts say. Medical conditions, viruses and even personality quirks have long been named after places, famous athletes, pioneering doctors and literary giants.
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Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank top post
Obama said Kim, a Korean-born physician and pioneer in the treatment of HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis, has the breadth of experience on development issues needed to carry out the financial institution's anti-poverty mission.
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Gates announces $23 million grant to India
n the day he leaves Microsoft to work for his pet social sector projects, software pioneer Bill Gates on Friday announced a $23 million grant to India to control the scourge of HIV/AIDS in the country.
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Science Won't Stop Until it Beats AIDS, Says HIV Pioneer
More than 30 years after she identified one of the most pernicious viruses to infect humankind, Francoise Barre Sinoussi, who shared a Nobel prize for discovering HIV, is hanging up her lab coat and retiring.
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Colleagues Hail AIDS Pioneer Killed in Downed Malaysian Plane
AIDS researcher Joep Lange, killed in the Malaysian jet crash in Ukraine, was a pioneer of cheap anti-retrovirals for the poor, colleagues said on Friday, remembering him as a man of compassion and vision.
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When diseases have a bad name, change is hard
Some diseases just have a bad name. But even when their commonly known labels glorify Nazi doctors or slander certain ethnic groups, old habits are hard to change, experts say. Medical conditions, viruses and even personality quirks have long been named after places, famous athletes, pioneering doctors and literary giants.
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Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank top post
Obama said Kim, a Korean-born physician and pioneer in the treatment of HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis, has the breadth of experience on development issues needed to carry out the financial institution's anti-poverty mission.
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Gates announces $23 million grant to India
n the day he leaves Microsoft to work for his pet social sector projects, software pioneer Bill Gates on Friday announced a $23 million grant to India to control the scourge of HIV/AIDS in the country.
