51.   Combining treatments for AIDS reduces costs in combating the killer disease, according to two reports released at a conference of AIDS specialists here.

52.   Doctors and nurses who fail to respect basic hygiene rules in hospitals are helping to spread killer diseases, mostly through dirty hands, researchers have warned.

53.   Eighty percent of the donations by midnight Friday were promised to combat the killer disease abroad, with the rest destined for caring for sufferers in Switzerland.

54.   The tainted blood-clotting medicine passed on the killer disease to six hemophiliacs in Vancouver -- five of them children, according to the documents.

55.   Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, opening a conference on AIDS in Africa, called Sunday for politicians to take the lead in fighting the killer disease.

56.   It cited sexual intercourse and contaminated injections and blood as the main causes of transmission of the killer disease.

57.   President Nelson Mandela marked World AIDS Day on Friday with a plea to all South Africans to unite in the fight against the killer disease.

58.   Researchers called on Asian countries to establish large funds to combat the killer disease.

59.   Rumour has been rife since the outbreak began, with the population blaming witchcraft for the mysterious killer disease and coming forward to report on suspected cases.

60.   The HIV virus is a precursor to the killer disease.