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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was the result of a June 2001 United Nations General Assembly special session on AIDS and a subsequent endorsement from the G8 group of nations in July, 2001. Along with the World Bank and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, it is the largest of the three major international funding agencies at work on AIDS.
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What to read: an AIDS bibliography |
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A few book recommended on the world AIDS crisis.
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There’s no place on earth that has suffered in the age of AIDS more than Africa below the Sahara Desert. The numbers are only a glimpse of what Africans have endured over the last 25 years, and what they continue to suffer.
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- While the scientific evidence indicates the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, scientists don’t know what precisely triggers the transition from HIV to AIDS.
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Canada was a prime mover in the G8 group of countries’ commitment to increase aid to Africa at the organization’s last summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has praised Canada’s financial commitment while pleading for more money from donor nations.
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Toronto archdiocese and AIDS |
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Barrett House For 20 years the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd have run Barrett House, 35 Sydenham St., the first residential care facility in Toronto for people with HIV/AIDS. The house accommodates five residents who receive optional meal plans and pastoral care. The purpose is to provide residents with a supportive, safe family environment. For information contact Brother John Chenier at (416) 864-1627.
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- Children account for one in every six AIDS deaths worldwide.
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AIDS has been a challenge to science, social policy and political leadership for more than a quarter of a century, but the history of the disease stretches out longer than you might think:
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AIDS Facts 
