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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – With large donor projects winding up and little bilateral support for HIV programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country is facing the possibility of ARV shortages and rising HIV mortality, say aid workers.
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LILONGWE: (PlusNews) – Male circumcision (MC), which can reduce HIV among men by up to 60 percent, is controversial in Malawi and government has yet to implement mass male circumcision. But a chain of private clinics has rolled out the measure with some surprising results.
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KIGALI: (PlusNews) – Rwanda’s recent national condom awareness campaign failed to include messages designed for people with disabilities, something experts say is a mistake, as they are often equally at risk of HIV as the rest of the population.
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Activists have cautioned that the Gates Foundation funded study, released today in The Lancet and showing welcome progress on reducing maternal mortality globally, also reveals one catastrophic exception.
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They say a picture tells a thousand words. It’s easy to understand why when you see ‘Through Positive Eyes’, a photographic and poster exhibition by people living with HIV and AIDS telling their life journeys with the infection.
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The AIDS Law Project is encouraged by the health minister’s commitment to strengthen the public health system, set clear targets for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and the urgency in tackling the country’s health crisis.
National Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced that more facilities would be accredited to provide ARVs. Delivering his budget speech he said 519 facilities had already started providing ARV by 1 April but all 4,333 public health facilities should over time provide the life saving drugs.
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The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) today welcomed the decision of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to terminate a multimillion dollar grant to a leading international health research agency because of the potential of tobacco industry influence on the agency’s policies.
Every Health-e journalist has made the finals of the annual Discovery Health Journalism Excellence Awards, which were announced today. Anso Thom of Health-e won the Discovery Health Journalist of the Year Award in 2009. This year, Health-e journalists are finalists in five categories.
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The official launch of the national HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign has been postponed, the Presidency has announced.
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President Jacob Zuma has announced the postponement of a massive HIV testing campaign that was set to start on 15 April as it collided with scheduled working visits to Brazil and the US. He said new dates for the campaign would be announced soon.
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In Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the worst cholera outbreaks in the country for many years.