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It is UNAIDS's second comprehensive report on the global epidemic of AIDS. The first report was published two years ago in conjunction with the last international AIDS conference, in Geneva. That report painted a bleak picture of AIDS, showing one in four people were infected in parts of Africa. In the new report, UNAIDS calculated for the first time the impact of AIDS on young people, the very individuals who are most often infected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. HIV, which has been spread primarily through heterosexual sex in Africa, is wiping out many households, devastating national economies and killing off so many teachers that it is undermining the delivery of basic education, Dr. Peter Piot, the head of UNAIDS, said from Geneva

Mr. [John McCain]'s doctors have said that he was cured of the melanoma that they removed from his left shoulder in 1993. But until more information is disclosed about the two new melanomas that Mr. McCain's office said were detected in biopsies on Aug. 3, it is not known whether they are similar to the curable one he had in 1993, or are more ominous. Last December, when Mr. McCain was running for the Republican presidential nomination, Dr. Thomas M. Hudak, a plastic surgeon who removed Mr. McCain's melanoma in 1993, and Dr. John Eckstein, Mr. McCain's physician at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., said in interviews that the senator's melanoma was cured

Ann Buve of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, studied two African cities with high HIV rates and two with low rates. In Yaounde, Cameroon, and Cotonou, Benin, where the HIV prevalence among sexually active men was 3.8% and 4.4% respectively, 99% of the men were circumcised. The practice was less common in Kisumu, Kenya, and Ndola, Zambia, where infection rates were 26.8% and 25.9%. Durban, South Africa -- Scientists at the 13th international conference on AIDS here debated last week what to do about one of the most puzzling but potentially important findings in AIDS, namely that circumcised men are much less likely to become infected with the AIDS virus than uncircumcised men. The finding was first made in Africa more than a decade ago and has been noted in more than 40 studies since then. Now many scientists have come to suspect that circumcision is an important factor in the vast differences among African countries in rates of infection from HIV, the AIDS virus

[Jonathan Reiner] said Monday night that [Dick Cheney] could withstand a strenuous campaign. He declined to provide details about Cheney's medical condition until he received permission. He said he expected such permission would be forthcoming if [George W. Bush] named Cheney as his running mate. [Denton Cooley] said he had agreed to review Cheney's heart records after a call from former President Bush 'and presumed approval of Gov. George W. Bush.' Cooley did not say whether Cheney had given his permission

Dr. [Jonathan Reiner] said that Dr. [Denton A. Cooley] had called ''about a week ago'' to discuss Mr. [Richard B. Cheney]'s medical history. Mr. Cheney has had three heart attacks but none since he underwent a quadruple coronary bypass operation in 1988. In the conversation, Dr. Reiner said he told Dr. Cooley that ''Mr. Cheney is in good health, leads a vigorous professional and recreational life.'' Dr. Reiner said last night that Mr. Cheney could withstand a strenuous campaign, but he declined to provide details about Mr. Cheney's medical condition until he received permission. He said he expected such permission would be forthcoming if Mr. [George W. Bush] named Mr. Cheney as his running mate

Mr. [Dick Cheney] has suffered three heart attacks, but none since he underwent quadruple coronary bypass surgery in 1988. Since the operation, Mr. Cheney has had no symptoms of heart disease. He leads a ''vigorous lifestyle,'' traveling extensively for work, exercising on a treadmill for 30 minutes several days a week, hunting and engaging in other strenuous recreational activities, Dr. [Jonathan S. Reiner] said in a separate letter dated July 24. In providing new medical details concerning Mr. Cheney's heart condition, the doctors said the three heart attacks had left Mr. Cheney with an unspecified amount of dysfunction of the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle. The dysfunction was detected by an ultrasound test known as an echocardiogram and the affected regions of heart muscle correlated with the areas on the bottom of the heart that were damaged by the heart attacks, Dr. Reiner said. Mr. Cheney's ''heart disease is optimally treated with medication,'' Dr. [Gary Malakoff] said. He said Mr. Cheney had long had an elevated level of blood cholesterol that ''has been vigorously and successfully treated with medication.'' The doctors did not provide Mr. Cheney's cholesterol count or tests of other fatty substances

[John McCain]'s new melanomas were on his left arm and left temple. The temple is a common site for new melanomas. If the new melanoma on his arm is close to the site of the melanoma removed from his left shoulder, the likelihood is increased that it was a recurrence or spread. Last December, when McCain was running for the Republican presidential nomination, Dr. Thomas Hudak, a plastic surgeon who removed McCain's melanoma in 1993, and Dr. John Eckstein, McCain's physician at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., said in interviews that his melanoma was cured

The Pensacola doctors spotted a dark, irregularly shaped area of skin on Mr. [John McCain]'s left shoulder during a checkup on May 7, 1993. But the records show they did not suspect a melanoma. A letter from a Navy doctor dated June 8, 1993, recommended that Mr. McCain consult a dermatologist for what the Pensacola doctors said they thought was a noncancerous condition, actinic keratosis, which results from chronic sun exposure. It was not until Nov. 24, 1993, that Mr. McCain sought care for the skin condition. He went to Dr. Thomas M. Hudak, a plastic surgeon in Phoenix, who had treated Mr. McCain's wife, Cindy. Dr. Hudak said in an earlier interview that though the dark area on the skin was not an obvious melanoma, he suspected it was a cancer. Because individuals with one melanoma can develop more, they are advised to have periodic checkups. Dr. Hudak said he had removed several noncancerous moles from Mr. McCain's skin, including one from his left temple on Oct. 4, 1998. It was a type known as a pigmented junctional nevus. Mr. McCain recalled on Friday that the new melanoma appeared near the spot where the benign mole had been

Sen. John McCain received good news when pathologists found no evidence that a malignant melanoma from his left temple had spread to lymph nodes in his face or neck

A week later, on Aug. 10, [John McCain] learned in a call from Bethesda that the moles were new, malignant melanomas. McCain, who later said he was surprised by the diagnosis, then arranged to have a second opinion and additional tests performed through Dr. John Eckstein, his personal physician at the Mayo Clinic here