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The Associated Press - Sunday, 1 December 1996, 08:37 P.M.
In Washington, the AIDS awareness group ACT UP is staging a vigil across the street from the White House, to urge more government funding for AIDS research. Across the country, in Portland, Archbishop Francis George will celebrate a special Mass for the victims of the disease.
Meanwhile, in China, a government proclamation warns there's no time to lose in raising AIDS awareness. Doing its part, the Health Ministry is putting on an AIDS exhibition in central Beijing. Photos of emaciated AIDS victims are displayed near a poster that reads, "The risks of careless sex and lifestyle hygiene."
And in Bahrain, the government has dedicated an hour of the school day to educate students about the disease.
In Rome, taxi drivers distributed AIDS leaflets. In Thailand, where the sex industry thrives, gas stations offered free condoms. And in South Africa, Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu went on T.V. to urge people to practice safe sex.
The U.N. agency on AIDS says nearly a quarter of the more than six million AIDS deaths to date occurred in the past year.
Retired Archbishop Tutu appeared today in a T.V. advertisement in which he urged people to use a condom. Tutu says South Africa faces a major crisis from HIV and AIDS.
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