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Close-up of Saidy Brown wearing a gray shirt

At 14, she tested positive for HIV — now she calls herself an HIVictor

Sexuality

“I’m just that person. I’m like, dude — I’m HIV-positive.”

Children run past a mural painting of an Aids ribbon at a school in Khutsong Township, 74 km (46 miles) west of Johannesburg, August 22, 2011.

Want to learn about sex? In South Africa, just turn on the radio.

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An ambulance transporting an Ebola patient drives to the entrance of a treatment centre outside Freetown, Sierra Leone.

An American aid worker with Ebola receives speedy care, while a Sierra Leonean colleague is ‘left behind’

Health
A baby looks out of a box at an outdoor market in Devils Hole, Sierra Leone. A new report suggests Ebola has created 12,000 orphans in the West African country.

Armies of student volunteers are key to Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola

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Nurse Donna Riccardi administers a shot of Influenze virus vaccine to patient Deanna Joa at the New York Downtown Hospital in New York on January 10, 2013.

The CDC says there’s a flu epidemic raging in America

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A Chinese doctor checks the temperature of a passenger on a flight from Hong Kong to Shanghai during the SARS outbreak in 2003. There are now fears that Ebola could spread via travel from West Africa to the rest of the world.

Put away the plastic sheets and duct tape — there’s no Ebola outbreak coming to the US

Medicine

The death of Liberian American traveler Patrick Sawyer stoked fears that the Ebola virus could cross the Atlantic. But despite the wide spread of the disease in West Africa, it has almost no chance of breaking out the United States thanks to the deep medical infrastructure here.The death of Liberian American traveler Patrick Sawyer stoked fears that the Ebola virus could cross the Atlantic. But despite the wide spread of the disease in West Africa, it has almost no chance of breaking out the United States thanks to the deep medical infrastructure here.

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