The following articles can be found in today's New York Times
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1 ) AIDS Cutting Africa Life Expectancy
By The Associated Press
Life expectancy in countries worst hit by Africa's staggering AIDS epidemic
is expected to fall to around 30 within a decade -- the lowest in a
century -- as the disease kills tens of millions more in its sweep across
the continent.



2 ) Mystery Factor Is Pondered at AIDS Talk: Circumcision
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
DURBAN, South Africa, July 10 -- Scientists meeting here debated today what
to do about a puzzling but potentially important finding about AIDS: that
circumcised men are much less likely to become infected than uncircumcised
men.



3 ) South Africa Faults Critics of Its President on AIDS Stance
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
DURBAN, South Africa, July 10 -- Striking a defiant and combative tone, the
South African government today lashed out at its increasingly vocal critics
at the 13th International AIDS Conference, saying there was no need for
President Thabo Mbeki to affirm that the human immunodeficiency virus,
H.I.V., causes AIDS.



4 ) Drug Firms Pledge Millions for AIDS
By The Associated Press
With the international AIDS conference under way, pharmaceutical companies
have begun announcing donations of medicine and money to help Africa fight
the disease that is ravaging the continent.



5 ) S.Africa's Mbeki: Major Killer Is Poverty Not AIDS
By REUTERS
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki Sunday
opened Africa's biggest AIDS conference, saying poverty and not AIDS was the
most dangerous threat to the continent's peoples

8 ) Study: Tests, Counsel Curtail HIV
By The Associated Press
Offering free sex counseling and HIV tests to people in the developing world
would curtail unsafe sex and could slash infection rates by more than 10
percent a year at a reasonable cost, new research suggests.


9 ) U.S. Teens Having Sex Less
By The Associated Press
U.S. teen-agers are clearly getting the message about AIDS, new data show.
Compared to a decade ago, they wait longer to have sex, use condoms and have
fewer partners.



10 ) Gates, Merck to Give Botswana $100 Million AIDS Help
By REUTERS
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The family trust of software billionaire Bill Gates and
U.S. drug company Merck and Co said on Monday they would make a $100 million
donation to Botswana in cash and drugs to help it fight AIDS.