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Contributor [1]
Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 02:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
195 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Near hysterical media reports last week reported on a strain of HIV resistant to drugs from three main classes of antiretrovirals. But this article from HIV information site www.aidsmap.com [4] says that perhaps the reason for the reaction to the case- reported in New York - and its reporting lies not in its medical significance, but in its importance to current US debates on comprehensive or abstinence-only HIV prevention. Visit the site to read the full article.

Category: 
Food & Health [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/26991 [6]

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