Bars get condom dispensers
DAR ES SALAAM: (PlusNews) - Bars and nightclubs in several Tanzanian cities will soon have condom vending machines in the bathrooms as part of national efforts to combat HIV.
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22 May 2009
When information comes knocking
MAGAGADE: (PlusNews) - Not much information about HIV and AIDS has reached people in the remote village of Magagade, in the Caia district of central Mozambique's Sofala Province. There is no electricity or piped water and the roads are so bad that Manuel Colaço, 22, had to travel there by bicycle to teach residents about how the disease is transmitted and treated.
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Health officials silent on quacks
The national health department and the Medicines Control Council (MCC) have failed to respond to a warning from South Africa'€™s top pharmacology academics and experts that the South African market is being flooded with all kinds of quack remedies and dubious '€˜medicines'€™.
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GULU: (PlusNews) - On the night of 13 May, in the northern Ugandan district of Gulu, Christine Atuk was woken by piercing screams coming from the neighbouring hut where her daughter was sleeping. "I peeped through the window and saw a huge ball of fire burning her hut," she recalled.
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Doctors’€™ pay struggle continues
Public sector doctors are preparing to stage a national march to communicate their frustration at the revised pay package government is offering. A national strike is also possible if government does not accede to their salary demands.
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HIV makes a TV debut
SÃO TOMÉ: (PlusNews) - Twenty years after the first case of HIV infection was recorded in the archipelago of São Tomé and PrÃÂncipe, off the coast of Gabon, six people living with HIV/AIDS have decided to take a stand against stigma and discrimination by telling their stories on national television.
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