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Treat HIV patients sooner, health officials say
People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Full story
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Image: A boy gzaes through a window during a nap session at the Mai Hoa orphanage in An Nhon Tay, Vietnam.
  World AIDS Day
See images of the disease’s global impact, including an orphaned girl in West Papua, some famous faces fighting the disease and advocates marching for change in Taiwan.

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AIDS around the globe
Interactive map: Where do the 33 million HIV-infected live?
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Fighting the AIDS epidemic
Access to antiretroviral drugs has saved millions. The Global Fund and a group of photojournalists documented the lives of some patients, like one Swazi woman who is now making a difference.
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Image: Border crossing in Zambia
  HIV's dangerous path
Sex workers, truckers at an African border town key to HIV’s spread.
Gideon Mendel / Corbis for UNICEF
Stopping HIV at birth
Three HIV-positive mothers in the African nation of Lesotho share their concerns about passing the deadly HIV virus to their children.
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  The face of AIDS
Click to view images of the disease’s global impact, from South Africa’s orphans to Cambodia’s stigmatized survivors.
AIDS: Lost generation
Orphans are left to care for themselves, and grandparents become parents again, as a generation of mothers and fathers are lost to AIDS.
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