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Argentina delegation talk over warship being detained outside Ghana
A delegation from Argentina on Tuesday met with Ghanaian officials in an attempt to negotiate the release of a warship being detained outside Accra...
Somalia’s Shabaab rebel banned Islamic agency relief
Somalia's Shabaab rebel banned aid of the Islamic agency on Monday which was one of the very few groups who were able to work...
Central Africa Republic celebrate 50th Anniversary of Intellectual Property right
The national structure of the intellectual property right celebrates its 50th anniversary in collaboration with the week of the intellectual property right in Bangui....
Ivory Coast’s battle for antiretroviral drugs
The political situation in Ivory Coast remains complex and now the country is facing problems with the supply of medicines. Indeed, a serious problem...
Drug addicts turn to HIV drugs for lethal mix
Drug peddlers in South Africa have introduced a new deadly drug whose ingredients contain life-prolonging antiretrovirals for people infected with HIV, a move that...
Texting helps monitor HIV/AIDS in Kenya
Between May 2007 and October 2008, an experiment was conducted in Kenya that involved sending a weekly text message to patients on antiretroviral drugs...
Ethiopia, Nigeria, DRC to get increased aid from UK
Ethiopia, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo will receive more direct development aid from the United Kingdom as the aid to other countries...
Beyond sex: South African school girls seek ‘Fashionable Pregnancies”
Teenage school girls in South Africa say it’s more fashionable to fall pregnant while still a student because “you are like a fool ...
US moves toward universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment
The United States has just taken an important decision in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The American National Institute of Health has officially agreed to...
Medical management improves for HIV/AIDS babies
Efforts to provide children with better access to HIV/AIDS treatment are beginning to bear fruit. In 2009, more than 355,000 children benefited from such...
Botswana moves to tackle complex HIV situation
Botswana government has approved to reduce the age through which
individuals would be deemed capable of giving informed consent for HIV
testing as part of a...
HIV/AIDS: UN report show decline in Africa, increase in Europe and Asia
United Nation's programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS has announced that HIV-AIDS infections have reduced in Africa, but are increasing in Eastern Europe and central Asia....
Mobile clinics in Southern African region to fight HIV-AIDS
Southern African region which carries the highest burden of the deadly HIV-AIDS in the world is planning to launch a string of mobile HIV/AIDS...
International Donors Must Fund Female-Controlled HIV Prevention Gel
After over twenty years of searching in the scientific wilderness, researchers have developed an effective vaginal microbicide gel that can block HIV transmission. ...
Corruption: Zimbabwe health workers creating artificial HIV drug shortages
A private grouping of lawyers in Zimbabwe has claimed that there is rampant corruption at government hospitals and municipal clinics as HIV and Aids...
Nationwide male circumcision begins in Zimbabwbe
The United States Government has made available 5,000 medical kits
worth US$1,5 million for use in Zimbabwe’s growing program to provide
male circumcision services.
Supplies were made...
Uganda links pornography to HIV-AIDs infection
Uganda government is concerned about the increase of pornography in the country. It says pornography is contributing to the rise in HIV-AIDS infections. Last...
Strong scientific discoveries mark Vienna AIDS conference
Universal access to treatment, progress in scientific understanding of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the importance of human rights in responding to the...
International AIDS Conference focuses on right to health
With the HIV/AIDS epidemic still raging and the global economic crisis threatening desperately needed funding, an estimated 20,000 participants from 185 countries are assembling...
Global leaders call for end to homophobia and human rights abuses
In response to skyrocketing HIV prevalence rates among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) around the world, global health...
Taming the African killer
New UNAids reports show positive sign of HIV/AIDS reduction in Africa. In countries such as Ethiopia, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe the reduction in...
Access to HIV/AIDS drugs: A crisis in waiting
Years after agreement was reached at the World Trade Organization to allow poor countries to continue to import cheaper generic versions of patented medicines...
Economic melt down excuse raises HIV/AIDS fears
Donors have been cutting funding for HIV/AIDS in eight African countries as a result of the global economic meltdown. This increasing phenomenon has forced...
Southern Sudan HIV/AIDS infections on the rise
The chairman of an anti-HIV/AIDS campaigning group, The Southern Sudan Network of People Living with HIV-AIDs, Lole Laila has said that about 7,000 people...
South Africa’s Life, Above All at Cannes Film Festival
Life, Above All, a feature film by Oliver Schmitz from South Africa competing in the "Un Certain Regard" category at the Cannes Film Festival...
Kenya: Bisexual male prostitutes and dangers of denial
In a nightclub in the coastal city of Mombasa in Kenyan, Tito Bakari*, a native, and Leonard Smithberger, a tourist, are seen kissing in...
Jacob Zuma preaches HIV awareness to South Africans
President Jacob Zuma has told the world that he’s clean from the deadly HIV saying he regularly takes HIV tests.
He said the disclosure of...
Africa and AIDS: Towards success
Africa’s battle against HIV/AIDS is not won yet. But there has been some good news recently, including a significant decline in new HIV infections...
Africa: Steps in the right direction against HIV/AIDS
Africa’s battle against HIV/AIDS is not won yet. But there has been some good news recently, including a significant decline in new HIV infections...
UK eases SA World Cup sex concerns with condom shipment
South African President Jacob Zuma’s recent state visit to Britain seems to be yielding fruit. Zuma, who took along a dozen cabinet ministers and...