Dribbling for awareness
CNN’s Asieh Namdar talks with Ethan Zohn who is using soccer to teach children about AIDS.

By Lucy Hornby

BEIJING (Reuters) - The new face of AIDS in China is a shy man with a heavy provincial accent, a weathered face and the rough hands of a manual worker.

Zhang Xiaohu, a character in an educational film for migrant workers, is part of a trend that worries Chinese officials: the potential for AIDS to spread among the estimated 200 million rural migrants driving the country’s rapid economic expansion.

AIDS in China has, to date, mostly been limited to drug users, gay men, prostitutes and the victims of reckless blood-buying schemes in the 1990s.

December the first is World Aids Day.

SINGAPOREANS are aware about HIV, but they are less accepting of people with the disease, according to a survey released by the Health Promotion Board (HPB).

 1,768 respondents were surveyed. They were divided into three age-groups: 18 to 29, 30 to 49, and 50 to 69.

 Out of the respondents, 314 were considered to be at-risk.

 This group consists of:

 Men who have sex with men

 People with multiple sex partners

 People who engage in commercial or non-commercial sex, like one-night stands

By RONI CARYN RABIN

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Gingko biloba in capsule form.

The study is the first trial large enough to accurately assess the plant extract’s effect on the incidence of dementia, experts said, and the results dashed hopes that it is an effective preventative. In fact, there were more cases of dementia among participants who were taking ginkgo biloba than among those who were taking a placebo, though the difference was not statistically significant.

“We were disappointed,” said Dr. Steven T. DeKosky, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia and the principal investigator. “We were hopeful this would work.”