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MEXICO CITY, August 7, 2008 (AFP) - The UN goal of achieving 'universal access' to anti-HIV drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely to be reached worldwide, two leading figures in the campaign against AIDS said here on Wednesday.

MEXICO CITY, August 7, 2008 (AFP) - The UN goal of achieving 'universal access' to anti-HIV drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely to be reached worldwide, two leading figures in the campaign against AIDS said here on Wednesday.

MEXICO CITY, August 7, 2008 (AFP) - Dozens of US AIDS activists demostrated at a world AIDS conference here Wednesday calling on White House candidates to commit to HIV prevention, as experts warned of emerging US public indifference towards the disease.

JOHANNESBURG, August 7, 2008 (AFP) - The young HIV-positive mother takes a deep breath as her name is called, scurrying behind the doctor who will tell her, after a torturous wait, whether she has infected her six-week old baby.

'Oh God I don't want to see,' she says breathlessly, fidgeting as she clutches her daughter in the Johannesburg clinic. 'It's so nerve-wracking.'

HARARE, August 7, 2008 (AFP) - HIV-positive widow Lilian Butau sits on a rickety stool on the veranda of her home in Harare's Mbare township, chewing on a small piece of calcium-rich rock, the only thing she has had to eat all day.

DHAKA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Surgeons in Bangladesh have successfully separated four-month-old conjoined twins during an operation that lasted seven hours, a doctor said Wednesday.

Banya ('Flood') and Barsha ('Rain'), born in northern Bangladesh, were joined at the stomach and chest but have separate heads and limbs.

LONDON, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Buckingham Palace denied a report on Wednesday that Queen Elizabeth II's elderly husband Prince Philip has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

In a statement, the palace said: 'The Duke of Edinburgh has authorised us to confirm that the claim made by the Evening Standard that he has received a 'diagnosis of prostate cancer' is untrue.'

ATHENS, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - A Greek prosecutor on Wednesday upgraded the charges against four nightclub staff who allegedly beat an Australian tourist to death in Greece on the island of Mykonos, a justice source said.