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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...
Black Hollywood Heads to Ohio in Fight Against AIDS
This week, the Buckeye state will become Black Hollywood East, as movie and TV stars flock to participate in the Test 1 Million Ohio...
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...
EAC to hold workshop on regional armed forces HIV/AIDS prevention and control
The East African Community has organised a three-day workshop on mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS prevention, control, treatment, care and support into Partner States' national Armed...
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...
Dow Jones joins forces with the Global Fund against HIV/AIDS
The Dow Jones Indexes and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, announced their partnership through the creation of a new index;...
Zimbabwe: Prisoners move around naked in squalid conditions
A recent report has revealed the growing state of hopelessness in Zimbabwean prisons as a large number of prisoners languish without clothes. The impoverished...
Kenya: Male prostitution and Mombasa’s beach boys
Beach boys is the name locals give to young men looking for rich white female tourists visiting Kenya for more than the usual sea,...
South Africa: Deceased Minister gets Zuma’s support over AIDS policy
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has come out strongly in
defence of his late friend, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang denying that
thousands of South Africans...
South Sudan launches Sudan Household Health Survey
The Federal and South Sudan Ministries of Health, have jointly launched Sudan Household Health Survey.
The survey which is to start...
South Africa 2010 World Cup: Safer sex for soccer fans
With only six months until South Africa hosts the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the nettlesome question of how to deal with sex workers looms.
"There...
Kenya seeks to test one million for HIV/Aids
The health ministry in Kenya has launched a three-week campaign to encourage up to one million people to take an Aids test.
Ministry officials will...
Congolese sex workers attacked for infecting Ugandans with HIV/AIDs
The government of Uganda is concerned about a great number of Congolese sex workers who have recently invaded Karamoja region in North eastern Uganda...
Zimbabwe: PWDs demand condom packs in Braille to promote safe sex
Visually impaired people in Zimbabwe have made a bold request to
government that condom packs be written in Braille to help them engage
in “safe sex”.
Through...
Zimbabwe records sharp drops in HIV cases but rate remains “high”
Zimbabwe's economy could be in bad shape but one notable improvement
is on its fight against HIV/AIDS. On Thursday, the health ministry announced that infection...
Homosexuals and AIDS: Confronting a dangerous African taboo
The internationally acclaimed medical journal The Lancet Monday published the first scientific study showing that male homosexuals are more often than not infected with...
HIV/AIDS: First South African vaccine being tested in Cape Town and Soweto
The scientific community won’t be bogged down after the initial failure of an experimental HIV vaccine developed by the U.S. laboratory Merck & Co....
Swazi Politican wants HIV+ people’s buttocks branded
A Swaziland politician has caused a major uproar in the tiny kingdom after proposing that saying HIV positive people to be branded on...
Poor countries tackling HIV better than Richer countries?
Richer countries may be better at providing treatment to people with HIV than their poorer counterparts, but they are often less effective at collecting...
Pregnant HIV positive women risking it all ?
According to an American study, nevirapene, used alone to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in developing countries, remains in the blood and in breast...
Sex Poverty and HIV/AIDS on a Caribbean Island
After her aunt turned her out onto the chaotic streets of Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, eight months ago, Marie Jessy*, 16, survived by befriending...
Botswana gov’t focuses on Male circumcision against HIV/AIDS
Botswana, one of the countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world, is focusing on the use of male circumcision as a means...
AIDS, an avatar of colonialism …
A study, recently published in the British science magazine, Nature, has developed a new hypothesis concerning the spread of the AIDS virus. Colonisation and...
Bareback sex against the not so ‘sweet’ rubber in Nigeria
Petrol tankers parked nose-to-tail line the five-kilometre stretch of road from the southern Nigerian town of Eleme to its refinery, waiting to fuel up...
Roadside sex in Africa
Roadside bars, truckers and sex workers have long been seen as one of the most dangerous combinations for the transmission of HIV, with truckers...
Sahel: Sahel climate change diary – Day 1
Jan Egeland, the UN Secretary General's Special Adviser on conflict is travelling in the Sahel to bring attention to climate change and conflict
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World Banks aims to continue its fight against AIDS in Africa
A new World Bank report launched Wednesday said African countries must continue to champion HIV prevention efforts to slow and reverse the rate of...
Food versus Green fuel to develop Africa
The demand for biofuels, such as bio-ethanol made from sugarcane has already impacted on the price of sugar. As more countries weigh the pros...
Somalia: Extension of peace mission’s mandate not enough, says government
Thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in the capital, Mogadishu. Somalia's transitional government has welcomed a resolution by the UN Security Council...