Doctors Slam Closure of HIV Testing Centres

Published May 10, 2013

Doctors slam closure of HIV testing centres

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Cuts to HIV prevention budgets have coincided with rates of the Aids-causing virus rising by more than 200 percent since 2011, fuelled by increasing drug abuse amid spiralling youth unemployment. Research last October by the Hellenic Center for Disease …
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Colombia's capital banks on marijuana cure for hard drug addicts

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And abandoning the vice usually requires interning the addict in a treatment facility and providing intensive therapy. “I give this program zero probabilities of working,” he said. But advocates say the traditional medical community is stuck in its …
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Man who was voice of Charlie Brown sent to drug facility for stalking

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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The former child actor who was the voice of Charlie Brown in the 1960s "Peanuts" animated television specials was sentenced to a year in jail on Wednesday and immediately ordered to a residential drug treatment center by a …
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