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However, it will be extremely difficult to make headway with prevention measures unless treatment is available. Would you allow yourself to be tested in a country with no available AIDS drugs, where stigmas against the infected could lead to the loss of your job and your family? In areas where drugs to prevent mother-to-child AIDS transmission are made available, people are willing to be tested and take part in prevention. Where these drugs are scarce, there is little incentive to be tested...
World poverty is another issue in which the Clinton administration made headway through globalization, by relieving the debts and lowering import barriers for developing nations, as well as making more abstract commitments towards universal education and removing the digital divide, he said...
...Murdoch's News Corp. is making serious headway in its talks to acquire what Murdoch considers the missing piece in his global media empire: DirecTV and its 10 million U.S. subscribers, currently owned by Hughes Electronics (which is in turn owned by General Motors, which makes more sense if you think of Hughes as what it used to be - a defense contractor...
...from a gross deformity of the thighs, my mobile phone an unsightly lump in one trouser pocket and my personal digital assistant a suspicious bulge in the other. But another, svelter option may be coming, as efforts by electronics companies to cross-pollinate phones and digital organizers finally make headway. Coming to Asia are multifunction mobiles that are small, stylish and, best of all, they run the Palm operating system familiar to most people using handheld computers...
...launches a sustained attack against the body. Ailments as diverse as psoriasis, multiple sclerosis and Type I diabetes are all caused by an immune system run amuck. No one knows what initiates any of these chronic diseases or how they might be cured, but researchers have lately made significant headway in developing drugs to treat them--drugs that arguably represent the first substantial advancement in the field in 50 years...