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GULU: (PlusNews) – People living with HIV in Uganda’s northern region are facing critical shortages of essential medicines. Dr Paul Onek, director of health services in Gulu District, said supplies of malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and antiretroviral (ARV) drugs had all run out. “We last received TB drugs in January for only 400 TB patients.”
MBABANE: (IRIN) – Anecdotal evidence that entrenched cultural beliefs among Swazis actively encourage the spread of HIV/AIDS has been confirmed by a joint government and UN report.
BRAZZAVILLE: (PlusNews) – Seated at his cluttered desk in the offices of Congo’s National AIDS Council (CNLS), Franck Fortuné Mboussou is a very happy man. In a country where barely 10 percent of the female population has ever been tested for HIV, the organisation finally has enough money to buy a mobile testing unit.
RIO DE JANEIRO: (PlusNews) – Men don’t cry. Men take risks. Men don’t ask for help. Men are strong. Men have many sexual partners. These stereotypes of masculinity are contributing to the spread of HIV throughout the world, experts warned at a recent symposium on men and boys.
While SADC countries have made progress in addressing some aspects of HIV/AIDS and human rights laws, most countries are selectively applying international guidelines on HIV/AIDS and human rights.
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Teen-retrovirale middels is wondermedisyne. Dis ses jaar terug by staatshospitale landswyd ingebruik geneem. Dit red lewens en verhoog lewenskwaliteit. Danksy die middels, is MIV en VIGS nie meer ‘n doodsvonnis nie.
The government has violated the Constitution by imposing a moratorium on the roll-out of antiretroviral drugs, for new HIV/AIDS patients in the Free State, the AIDS Law Project recently told a civil society gathering in Bloemfontein.
Studies conducted in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Soweto show that there is a higher HIV prevalence rate amongst men who have sex with men.
Drug resistant HIV resulting from the collapse of Zimbabwe’€™s health system will undermine success of South Africa’€™s HIV/AIDS programme, according to Health Minister Barbara Hogan.
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After a decade of strained relations, the Health Minister is to consider scientific advisory body to bring police-makers and scientists together.
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Former deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge this week launched the book The Virus, Vegetables and Vitamins at the 4th Aids Conference in Durban. Madlala-Routledge used the platform to call for a truth and reconciliation commission on HIV/AIDS.
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THE ANC is planning a post-election apology to the nation for former president Thabo Mbeki’€™s disastrous HIV-Aids policy, which has been blamed for the deaths of thousands of infected people, according to a report in The Times.