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Confronting one of the world’s number one killers
The floods in Pakistan and droughts in sub-Saharan Africa are the bookends around the lethal hardships that millions around the globe live with daily:...
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...
Julian Lob-Levyt to leave GAVI Alliance for major role in private sector
Julian Lob-Levyt will step down as CEO of the GAVI Alliance in October to take up a major role in the private sector after...
Ethiopia: U.S. foreign policy and unsafe abortion in Africa
United States foreign policy abortion restrictions have often hampered African NGOs’ efforts to reduce deaths and disabilities associated with unsafe abortion procedures. In a...
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...
Africa: Pregnant with possibility
The news of a pregnancy should ideally be met with joy – but all too often there is justifiable fear. The African Union Summit...
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...
Statement From USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah in Response to Historic Progress in Preventing HIV Infection in Women
USAID is proud to be the major funder of the first-ever proof of concept that a microbicide can effectively and safely reduce the transmission...
Results From Ground-breaking New PSI Study on Male Circumcision to be Released
Following the remarks on male circumcision made today by former President Bill Clinton and philanthropist Bill Gates, PSI will release the results of a...
Global Health Leaders to Sound Alarm on Dual Crises of HIV, Discrimination among Gay Men During Vienna Press Briefing
WHAT: Press Briefing - Be Heard: Elevating Issues Concerning MSM, HIV and Human Rights Key global health leaders to discuss the current state of...
Uganda: AU wants to make a real difference at 15th Summit
The 15th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) has
today opened in Kampala under the theme: "Maternal, Infant and Child
Health and...
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...
Kenya: A Preventable Childbirth Injury That Ruins Lives
Tens of thousands of Kenyan women and girls suffer from obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury causing leakage of urine and feces, a direct result...
One month without sex…
No sexual intercourse for a month is the message that two scientists leading the fight against HIV transmission have sent to African leaders. In...
Uganda: British American Tobacco company sent out of town
Parliament in Uganda has directed the British American Tobacco (BAT) to relocate its tobacco treatment plant from Kampala to another place.
This follows complaints...
Africa: Child-witchcraft or Autism symptoms?
Across Sub-Sahara Africa, children from underprivileged backgrounds who sometimes exhibit symptoms of Autism, are often labeled as witches or wizards, and victimized - poisoned,...
Male circumcision killing South Africans
Illegal circumcision’s schools in South Africa have left 35 boys dead in just two weeks in botched operations.
All the deaths are in the...
Koalas face AIDS threat
The discovery of an AIDS-like virus in koalas is raising newfound fears the animal may soon face extinction. KIDS, or Koala Immune Deficiency Syndrome,...
Cameroon establishes its own generic drug production unit
At a time when over seventy per cent of Africans still lack access to treatments against HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, among other diseases, Cameroon...
Swine/H1N1 Flu boosts African influenza surveillance
As the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that more than 214 countries have confirmed cases of H1N1 pandemic influenza and at least 18,156 people...
National Leaders Address Black Press of America at Annual Conference
Citing access to healthcare, jobs and affordable housing, leaders say crisis in Black America threatens social and economic prosperity for all; Black Press has...
Ugandans flee village as several people die
Hundreds of residents in the Kawogo village of central Uganda have fled their homes after the death of 22 of their neighbours in the...
W.H.O. Lauded for Supporting Amalgam ‘Phase Down,’ Ban on Mercury in Skin Cosmetics as Treaty Negotiations Start in Stockholm
World governments, under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme, today completed the first step towards a legally binding treaty to control mercury...
Nigeria: A matter of gold and death
Immunization officers went from hut to hut to immunize children in the northern Nigerian State of Zamfara. In one of the Zamfara villages where...
Nigeria President lauds Bill and Melinda Gates’ anti-polio campaign
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has praised the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for their plans to develop an effective malaria vaccine by 2015, after...
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...
Living and Learning With Arthritis
May is Arthritis Awareness Month, and as I have for the past several years, I will participate in events to educate people about arthritis...