January 27, 2009

Food shortages threaten ARV adherence

KENYA: (PlusNews) - Makueni District Hospital in eastern Kenya has recorded a significant drop in the weight of several of its HIV-positive patients in the past three months, which nutritionists ascribe to severe food shortages across much of the country.

“It doesn’t matter if you are rich or educated ‘ anyone can get HIV”

ZIMBABWE: (PlusNews) - Former model Tendayi Westerhof is better known these days as a tough-talking HIV/AIDS activist. After testing HIV positive seven years ago, she left the modelling world to found the Public Personalities Against AIDS Trust (PPAAT) to encourage other public figures and celebrities to be open about their HIV status.

Government repatriates Zimbabwe sex workers

MOZAMBIQUE:(PlusNews) - A narrow hallway leads to a makeshift wooden counter where a shelf displays a few empty beer cans and soft drink bottles; a side door opens to a corridor with a series of bedrooms, almost all of them occupied. This is the 25 de Setembro Social Centre, one of the largest brothels in Chimoio, capital of Mozambique's central province of Manica.

“I made it a resolution to go down with as many men as possible “

KENYA:(PlusNews) - Jane Nyasuguta*, 40, a former teacher living in Nyanza Province, western Kenya, thought she and her husband had a good marriage until she discovered he had a mistress in a neighbouring town. She told IRIN/PlusNews that after his death from an AIDS-related illness, and her discovery that she too was HIV-positive, she was filled with resentment.

Food shortages threaten ARV adherence

“It doesn’t matter if you are rich or educated ‘ anyone can get HIV”

Government repatriates Zimbabwe sex workers

“I made it a resolution to go down with as many men as possible “

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“It doesn’t matter if you are rich or educated ‘ anyone can get HIV”