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USA: LEGISLATION UNVEILED CALLING FOR END OF EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA
Spanish/Eng/Nat
A bipartisan group of congressmen on Wednesday unveiled legislation in Washington DC calling for an end to the U-S embargo on food and medicine to Cuba.
The move came as other congressmen debated legislative amendments...
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PERU: HEALTH AUTHORITIES LAUNCH CAMPAIGN AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS
Spanish/Nat
Health authorities in Peru have launched a campaign to fight one of the continent's highest national rates of tuberculosis (TB).
Perus is second only to Brazil in cases of the disease, according to the Pan American Health...
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Chechnya - Chemical Weapons Suspected
There is evidence that chemical weapons have been used in the war
in Chechnya. Some 200 people in the village of Autay have been
sent to hospital with symptoms that point to the use of chemical
weapons. Eyewitnesses say that one...
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About 100 workers in Oakland, California's medical marijuana industry voted to join the Retail, Statewide Agriculture, Food Processing and Community Patient Care Union. It's believed to be the first case of cannabis workers unionizing in the country.
HEADLINE: California marijuana workers vote to unionize
CAPTION: About 100 workers in Oakland, California's medical marijuana industry voted to join the Retail, Statewide Agriculture, Food Processing and Community Patient Care Union....
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Clinton announces agreement to cut prices of HIV and AIDS treatments for children
1. Wide of former US President Bill Clinton and Chief of the governing Congress party Sonia Gandhi lighting traditional lamp to inaugurate the event (AUDIO: Applause)
2. Wide side view of Clinton and Gandhi lighting lamp, audience in...
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PHILIPPINES: VIAGRA GOES ON SALE NATIONWIDE
Tagalog/Eng/Nat
Viagra, the headline grabbing anti-impotency pill, is now on sale in the Philippines.
Pfizer, who manufacture the drug, have started delivering to local drugstores in Manila, two weeks after the local Bureau of Food and...
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Mother treated after giving birth at height of floods, aerials, makeshift health facility
Army and private doctors have set up scores of roadside hospitals and camps to treat flood victims in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir.
The flooding has killed 200 people in India, where anger and resentment is mounting over what...
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Curvaceous figures celebrated with dance craze
Abidjan - March, 2008
1. Medium shot of DJ Kedjevara dancing with his dancers, a female dancer shaking her bottom
2. Close up of the boy watching
3. Close up of dancer shaking her bottom
4. Audience applauding
5. Various mid shots of...
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Former US president in Vietnam for talks with govt on HIV/AIDs treatment
1. Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet and former US President Bill Clinton, President of Clinton Foundation, walking into Presidential Palace
2. Triet and Clinton shaking hands
3. Cutaway reporters
3. Wide of Triet and Clinton...
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Making blood in a laboratory
Andrews Air Force Base, US, April 20, 2010
1. Pan of injured US soldiers being transferred from a military plane to an ambulance
Kandalay, Afghanistan, September 22, 2011
2. Mid shot of American soldier firing rifle
3. Mid of soldier...
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INDIA: TRADITIONAL HERBALIST CLAIMS AN AIDS ANTIDOTE
Hindi/English/Nat
As medical science struggles to find a cure for AIDS, some traditional therapists in India claim they have found it already.
The latest herbal specialist to claim an AIDS antidote says his medicine can reverse the...
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The world's first cannabis only pharmacy
Groningen - recent
1. Pan to the cannabis pharmacy
2. Wide of cannabis pharmacy
3. Shop window sign reading "Cannabis Pharmacy"
4. Various of client arriving to purchase 5 grams of cannabis
5. SOUNDBITE: (Dutch) Bern Klouke, patient...
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The number of people living with HIV beyond middle age offers new medical challenges
HEADLINE: HIV patients living longer, aging faster
CAPTION: With modern medicine helping people with HIV to live longer, growing evidence is suggesting that those who have spent decades battling the virus may be aging prematurely. This...
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New York has become the 23rd state to authorize medical marijuana, but patients won't be allowed to smoke the drug. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill in New York City Monday. (July 7)
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"She currently takes three anti-epileptic medicines."
"To have the opportunity to try medical marijuana for my daughter in the hope that it brings, that maybe she could go more than a day...
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Stigma and low literacy hamper HIV/AIDS campaign
Karachi, Pakistan, November 27, 2011
1. Close of Mazhar Anjum, 38-year old transgendered person, who has AIDS
2. Wide of Mazhar Anjum, sitting with his disciple, who is also transgendered
3. Mid of over-the-shoulder of Mazhar, as he is...
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Various - Jordanian Hea Shaan Seeks Transplant
A young Jordanian girl crossed the River Jordan on Wednesday
(2/11) and handed samples of her own blood to the Israelis who
will test it hoping to find a transplant donor to save her life.
Heba Shaban, a 12-year-old Jordanian who...
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Whoopi writes about using medical marijuana in debut newspaper column
Whoopi Goldberg says she's in love with her marijuana-vaporizing pen.
In her new column for The Denver Post's Cannabist website, the Oscar-winning entertainer writes that her "vape pen" relieves the devastating glaucoma headaches she...
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Whoopi writes about using medical marijuana in debut newspaper column
Whoopi Goldberg says she's in love with her marijuana-vaporizing pen.
In her new column for The Denver Post's Cannabist website, the Oscar-winning entertainer writes that her "vape pen" relieves the devastating glaucoma headaches she...
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AmeriCares, a medical aid group in Stamford, Connecticut is sending one million dollars in medical supplies to typhoon-damaged ares of the Philippines. Another shipment from Amsterdam arrived Thursday. (Nov. 14)
AmeriCares, a medical aid group in Stamford Connecticut is sending one million dollars in medical supplies to typhoon-damaged ares of the Philippines.
The shipment leaves the states on Thursday.
The group's Amsterdam, Netherlands...
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SOUTH AFRICA: DURBAN: INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE (2)
English/Nat
At the start of an international AIDS conference in Durban South African President Thabo Mbeki has defended his government's AIDS policy.
Mbeki told thousands of AIDS experts gathered from around the world that he is simply...
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The fight against Aids in Iran
Tehran - 08 , February, 2007
1. Wide exterior of HIV patients centre
2. Close of sign reading (English) "Iranian Research Centre for HIV / AIDS Tehran University of Medical Sciences"
3. Wide interior of HIV patients centre
4. PAN from...
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A marijuana plant is the central exhibit at an art show in California
1. Marijuana leaf
2. Gallery exterior
3. Frey Norris Gallery sign
4. Gallery workers discuss plant
5. Medical marijuana pamphlet
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michele Pred, Artist:
"So I decided the best way of presenting this event was...
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Former presidents discuss war on drugs
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLISTAP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYRio de Janeiro - 22 April 20151. Margarete Brito's daughters Sofia (left) and Mia (right) playing, Sofia suffers from epilepsy and takes Cannabidiol, a medicine...
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Haemophiliacs want compensation from Shanghai firm
Beijing, April 26, 2006
1. Various of people with AIDS talking to lawyer
2. Close-up of claimant Jia Pingan
3. Close-up red ribbon AIDS sign on document
4. Claimant Jia Pingan, with amputated leg, walking into room on crutches
5....