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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – A disappointing allocation for global AIDS programmes in the United States budgetmeans African governments will have to step up their own funding, say activists.
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GARISSA: (PlusNews) – In 2002, one bus per day connected Garissa, in Kenya’s North-Eastern Province, with the capital, Nairobi, and not a single case of HIV had been reported in the region.
Introducing himself to the media last week, new Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, acknowledged that public sector health professionals, including doctors, are under-paid.
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.
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.
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’€™.
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.
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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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.
Outlining his departmental plans at a media briefing in Pretoria, new Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, said he has been ‘€˜ordered to hit the ground running’€™. He announced five key priorities, one of which is to strengthen the quality of care in the health service.
When HIV enters the body, it predisposes the person to several mental illnesses, one of which is Depression. This report explores the link between HIV and depression.
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Acyclovir, medication used to treat herpes, has no effect on preventing HIV transmission, according to a new study.