Warnings, Worship Mark World AIDS Day

December 1st, 2006 in Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Warnings, Worship Mark World AIDS Day (AP)

Two nuns hold huge red ribbons made by a charity organization affiliated to a local catholic church as they walk during an AIDS awareness event in Shenyang, in northeast China's Liaoning province on World AIDS Day Friday Dec. 1, 2006. China's Health Ministry said the number of reported HIV and AIDS cases rose almost 30 percent to 183,733 in the first 10 months of this year, but health experts say actual cases are likely to be four to five times the reported figure. (AP Photo)

(AP) -- World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of additional deaths.

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