noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cancer/AIDS etc patient
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One in three cancer patients suffers no pain at all.
a cancer/AIDS etc victim
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He helped raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.
AIDS/cancer/asthma/arthritis etc sufferers
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a support group for cancer sufferers
lose sb to cancer/AIDS etc
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He lost his father to cancer his father died of cancer last year.
the AIDS/flu/polio etc virus
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They are trying to stop the spread of the flu virus.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activist
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It was the latter path that a group of New York AIDS activists took in 1987.
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His first, Kristine Gebbie, resigned after being criticized by AIDS activists for being ineffectual.
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As demonstrators blew whistles and chanted on the streets, other AIDS activists got stuck into the science.
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Degaying had the opposite effect that many AIDS activists hoped.
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His opinion has been almost universal among gay and AIDS activists even to this day.
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Many AIDS activists have opposed home test kits, because they feared people would receive inadequate counseling.
case
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However total AIDS cases are estimated to be between 100,000 and 150,000.
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Retrospective Diagnosis Using the first technique, researchers found dozens of possible AIDS cases from medical records dating back to the 1930s.
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An increase in AIDS cases will strain both preventive and curative services.
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Two AIDS cases have been identified from death certificates where Kaposi's sarcoma has been mentioned as cause of death.
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Tens of thousands of AIDS cases over many years uniformly fit into predictable patterns.
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Chin said on June 17 that by the year 2000 around 90 percent of global AIDS cases would be among heterosexuals.
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The Bay Area ranked fourth in the nation, with 83 AIDS cases per 100, 000 residents.
drug
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Several big drug firms said this month that they would provide AIDS drugs at steep discounts to poor countries that want them.
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Agouron Pharmaceuticals launched an AIDS drug earlier this year.
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That was before Holman, 30, began taking a new cocktail of AIDS drugs .
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Patients eventually develop a resistance to AIDS drugs , so doctors are obliged to rotate the type of medication.
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If pot concentrates the AIDS drugs , they could be toxic; if reduced, they could be ineffective.
education
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Kate has been overseeing an AIDS education course in Constanta together with a local representative, Ana Ureche.
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During the second semester of his first year, Craig became involved in AIDS education on campus.
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Chris Bennetts, senior health promotion officer for AIDS education , was actively involved in this area.
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The best AIDS education program requires the personal involvement of management and employees.
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In the schools the needs for AIDS education has never been greater.
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We recommend that in-person group informational sessions form the core of the AIDS education program.
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The same approach should be taken with AIDS education .
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There are now AIDS-related organizations in many communities that will assist employers in developing AIDS education programs.
epidemic
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Recent topics include career guidance, parenthood and the AIDS epidemic .
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Self-education is hardly new to gay men in the AIDS epidemic .
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The country is battling an AIDS epidemic .
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For a long time, doctors thought anti-viral drugs would be enough to stop the AIDS epidemic in its tracks.
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So far, the global AIDS epidemic is thought to have killed 19m people.
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And he has boosted federal spending to combat the AIDS epidemic .
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All the ingredients for an AIDS epidemic that has yet to begin.
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No other methods have ever been found anywhere in any country during the entire course of the AIDS epidemic .
patient
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We tried to find out whether reactivation of T gondii in AIDS patients induces similar antibody secretion.
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Today, like many other public hospitals that once took polio patients , it houses many AIDS patients.
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Every AIDS patient is a monument to the theory of evolution.
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Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
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Jab hope in aids war AIDS patients are being given a new vaccine which could slow down the effects of the disease.
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The typical AIDS patient comes into his office at least once a month, needing tests, treatments, even hospitalization.
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During 1992 twice as many new carriers or AIDS patients were diagnosed as in 1991.
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Like many AIDS patients , Pieters swallows the drug combo to help his body suppress the virus day after day.
prevention
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Our first and subsequent courses have been a success and are part of a long-term commitment to AIDS prevention .
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The connections between environmentalism and AIDS prevention are more than merely rhetorical.
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Gay groups and AIDS prevention groups are beginning to experiment with different kinds of messages.
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Yet it is rarely posed as a major issue of AIDS prevention .
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Educators feared these young men were missing the AIDS prevention message.
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If the world of AIDS prevention worked that way, the process might look like this.
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But there are virtually no powerful forces within the gay AIDS prevention movement arguing for prevention first.
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The enterprise of AIDS prevention in the gay world has strenuously avoided any detailed examination of these mechanisms.
research
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But AIDS research is moving so quickly that the current cocktail soon will be obsolete, Teixeira said.
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But AIDS research is overwhelmingly carried out in the industrialized world.
vaccine
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Scientists were optimistic about the prospect of developing an AIDS vaccine .
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He noted that hopes were high for an AIDS vaccine in the mid-1980s.
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Getting governments to recognise the importance of an AIDS vaccine is as critical as getting the science right in the laboratory.
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So the federal government must make a special effort to keep AIDS vaccine research afloat, Gallo said.
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In 2000, Bill Clinton promised millions more dollars to fund AIDS vaccine research.
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More distant prospects include improved vaccines for tuberculosis and childhood diseases, and possibly an AIDS vaccine, Young said.
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Developing a new AIDS vaccine ranks among the most difficult of all medical challenges going.
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Genetic engineering techniques will speed up the development process for the AIDS vaccine , but these experimental new techniques still require time.
victim
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One of these AIDS victims was a haemophiliac who probably contracted the disease through infected blood products.
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About 70 percent of AIDS victims throughout the country are male homosexuals and bisexuals.
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Since the virus can spread through blood, transfusions could account for the 25 percent of AIDS victims who are not gay.
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In addition. AIDS victims often develop a rare type of cancer, known as Kaposi's sarcoma.
virus
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The man then told them he had the AIDS virus , though prison authorities have not confirmed whether this was true.
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Unlike the virus that causes the flu, the AIDS virus can not be transmitted through the air.
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All cases of transmission of the AIDS virus ever studied fit into one of these three categories.
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The risk assessment of oral transmission of the AIDS virus has a theoretical basis only.
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Blood that has been collected for use is tested for the presence of antibody to the AIDS virus .
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Maternal transmission is becoming a major problem as increasing numbers of newborn babies enter the world already infected with the AIDS virus .
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In about ten years, the genes of the AIDS virus change as much as human genes change in 10 million years.
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There is no danger of infection with AIDS virus by casual social contact.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 70 percent of AIDS victims throughout the country are male homosexuals and bisexuals.
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Beyond that, AIDS patients must pay or go on Medi-Cal.
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Evidence shows that the AIDS virus may also attack the nervous system, causing damage to the brain.
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It had heard that the paper was planning to include an item on AIDS and demanded to be consulted.
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It was a hint that AIDS is more than one disease.
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Our educators present a personal message, each one having had experience of caring for those dying with AIDS at home.
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Unlike the virus that causes the flu, the AIDS virus can not be transmitted through the air.