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- Thai Village a Sex-Trade Hub as Families Sell Off Daughters
Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/25/02. - Project to Deepen Nation's TB Control
China Daily 3/25/02. - India Hails U.N. Approval of Generic AIDS Drugs as a Step Forward Yahoo, 3/21/02.
- Thailand Produces AIDS Cocktail to Sell Them Cheaply
Associated Press, 3/21/02.Untitled - China Faces Growing Labor Unrest Christian Science Monitor, 3/25/02.
- Cambodia Now a Major Heroin Smuggling Route to West
Reuters, 3/22/02. - Vietnam's Determined War on Poverty
International Herald Tribune, 3/21/02. - Afghanistan Drafts Health Plan
Associated Press, 3/20/02. - With Ignorance as the Fuel, AIDS Speeds Across China
by Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) December 30, 2001. Li Bai's body is on the front line of the battle to prevent an explosion of AIDS in China. For the last seven years, the baby-faced 23-year-old with p... (2010words) - A Poor Ethnic Enclave in China Is Shadowed by Drugs and H.I.V.
by Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) December 21, 2001. By day, Butuo is an ethnic backwater, where women in long embroidered blue skirts tote baskets filled with chunks of pig, and men in full-length capes... (1438words) - Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests
by Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) December 11, 2001. As China's central government takes steps to address its growing AIDS problem, officials in some of its most seriously affected areas here in central ... (1966words) - Shifting Stance, Beijing Shows Drama on AIDS
by Reuters (NYT) December 2, 2001. Ending some of its reticence on the topic of AIDS, China today aired a dramatic TV drama on the disease. The world's most populous country was jolted ... (373words) - China Seems Uncertain About Dealing Openly With AIDS
by Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) November 14, 2001. At the opening ceremony of China's much celebrated first conference about H.I.V. and AIDS, an anonymous H.I.V.-positive person delivered brief remarks...(1068words) - AIDS Patients in China Lack Effective Treatment
by Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) Series, November 12, 2001. Zhang Jianqi remembers the doctor's advice at the rural Sui Xian County hospital in central China when they told him this summer that his 8-year-old d... (2290words) - AIDS Patients Push Asian Lands to Meet Their Needs
by Elisabeth Rosenthal (NYT) October 14, 2001. Speaking here to scientists and researchers from all over the world, Celina D'Costa reminds her audience that she has received virtually no treatment ... (1062words) - South Korea Remains Largely Inactive in Prevention of AIDS Epidemic
Korea Herald, 10/23/01. - AIDS Patients Push Asian Lands to Meet Their Needs
NYT, 10/14/01. - After Meeting, Asia-Pacific Health Ministers Vow to Fight AIDS
NYT, 10/11/01. - How Some Live With AIDS With Little or No Therapy
NYT, 10/10/01. - AIDS discrimination spreading in Asia
Times of India, 10/9/01. - News Round Up From the Sixth International Conference on HIV/AIDS in the Asia/Pacific Region
Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 10/10/01. - New Resolve to Fight AIDS in Asia
Times of India, 10/11/01. - Cultural Taboos Increase Women's HIV Risk
BBC News, 10/8/01. - New Crisis as AIDS Sweeps into Asia: A UN Report Warns that Africa's Epidemic May Soon be Eclipsed
Guardian (UK), 10/5/01. - Asia Warned of AIDS Epidemic
BBC News, 10/5/01. - Poorly Prepared Asian Countries Warned of AIDS Epidemic
NYT, 10/5/01. - The Status and Trends of HIV/AIDS/STI epidemics in Asia and the Pacific
Provisional report from Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic Network, 10/4/01. - Business and Labour Responds to HIV/AIDS in Asia
United Nations Information Services press release, 9/17/01. - WHO Warns Asia against Complacency after Progress against AIDS
Reuters/Yahoo, 9/17/01. - WHO Wants Greater Use of Traditional Medicine
AFP/Straits Times (Singapore), 9/14/01. - Mekong Countries Launch Project against HIV/AIDS
UNDP Newsfront, 9/7/01. - Protests After India Arrests AIDS Workers
Reuters Health, 8/13/01. - Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
AP/abcNEWS.com, 8/13/01. - Drug Use Begetting AIDS in Central Asia
New York Times, 8/5/01. - Asia's burgeoning Aids epidemic
30 November, 2000. - Bangladesh
- Violence against Women: How Long Will Society Look the Other Way?
Independent (Bangladesh), 7/20/01.
- Violence against Women: How Long Will Society Look the Other Way?
- Burma
- Focus/AIDS in Burma: Out of Control
Bangkok Post, 10/6/01. - Burma Faces AIDS Explosion
BBC News, 9/25/01.
- Focus/AIDS in Burma: Out of Control
- Cambodia
- New Study Exposes Grim Life of Children of Cambodian Sex Workers
IPPF News, 9/25/01. - WHO Lauds Cambodia's "Remarkable Turnaround" against AIDS
IPPF News, 9/11/01. - ADB Supports HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Asian Development Bank press release, 8/14/01. - Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
AP/abcNEWS.com, 8/13/01.
- New Study Exposes Grim Life of Children of Cambodian Sex Workers
- China
- China Paper Reports on 118 With HIV
Associated Press, 10/11/01 - A New Vein Of Openness [AIDS in China]
Far Eastern Economic Review, 10/4/01. - A Chinese Family's Ordeal in a Nation in Denial of AIDS
New York Times, 9/16/01. - AIDS Patients Get US$1.2M
China Daily, 9/11/01.
- China Paper Reports on 118 With HIV
- India
- Minimise Socio-Economic Fallout of AIDS, Says PM
The Hindu (India), 9/19/01. - City Down with AIDS, TB
Times of India, 8/28/01. - Protests After India Arrests AIDS Workers
Reuters Health, 8/13/01. - India: Cipla Launches 3-In-1 AIDS Pill
Reuters/Yahoo, 8/6/01.
- Minimise Socio-Economic Fallout of AIDS, Says PM
- Indonesia
- Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
AP/abcNEWS.com, 8/13/01.
- Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
- Japan
- Baby born from semen of HIV patient
Japan Times, 10/3/01. - Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
AP/abcNEWS.com, 8/13/01.
- Baby born from semen of HIV patient
- Lao
- ADB Supports HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Asian Development Bank press release, 8/14/01.
- ADB Supports HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam
- Malaysia
- Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
AP/abcNEWS.com, 8/13/01.
- Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
- Pakistan
- Alarming Rise in Rape Cases in the Country during Eight Months
Pakistan Press International/Karachi Business Recorder, 9/14/01. - 'Voices,' a New Project to Educate Illiterate Women to Be Launched
Business Recorder (Karachi), 7/30/01.
- Alarming Rise in Rape Cases in the Country during Eight Months
- Philippines
- Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
AP/abcNEWS.com, 8/13/01.
- Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
- Taiwan
- Taiwan's Lonely Quest for Help on Health
Washington Post op-ed, 7/31/01.
- Taiwan's Lonely Quest for Help on Health
- Thailand
- AIDS Toll Rises in Thailand
BBC News, 8/31/01. - New Aids fears in Thailand
BBC. 25 June, 2001. "Thailand has the largest number of people with HIV, which causes Aids, in East Asia. The first case was recorded in 1984, and today about 700,000 people carry the virus." - Asia's Sex Industry Is Growing Rapidly, Threatening AIDS Efforts, WHO Says
AP/abcNEWS.com, 8/13/01.
- AIDS Toll Rises in Thailand
- Viet Nam
- ADB Supports HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Asian Development Bank press release, 8/14/01.
- ADB Supports HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam
- Asia Observer
Includes comprehensive links to other regional and country media. - Asia Times Online
- Asia Today: Social Issues
AIDS-related stories tend to fall under "Social Issues"; can also search by subregion and other topics. From AsiaSource, a resource of the Asia Society.
- Free email subscription
- Integrated Regional Information Networks(IRIN)
News service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, in partnership with ReliefWeb. Reports on political, economic, and social issues affecting humanitarian efforts in Africa and Central Asia. Daily news organized by subregion and country. Includes HIV/AIDS Weekly Report. In English and French. Free email subscription to IRIN-Asia or IRIN-Africa Other Major Media with Useful Coverage of HIV/AIDS and Related Issues - China
- Inside China Today Link to Xinhua news wire.
- South China Morning Post
- India
- The Hindu (India)
- The Times of India
- Pakistan
- DAWN
- Thailand
- Bangkok Post
(Thailand)
- Bangkok Post
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