HIV programmes face funding crunch
KARACHI: (PlusNews) - Pakistan's efforts to combat AIDS face an uncertain future as funding for a major HIV/AIDS prevention and care project comes to an end this month.
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Real men don’€™t cry ‘€“ or do they?
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.
Taking testing to the people
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.
A culture that encourages HIV/AIDS
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.
Drug shortages raise resistance risk
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."
Lack of implementation hinders SADC HIV and human rights efforts
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.
Lewens Opgeskort
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.
How the Free State ARV moratorium breached the Constitution
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.
Growing epidemic among MSM Living with AIDS # 385
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.
Hogan explores ways to bring scientists and govt together
After a decade of strained relations, the Health Minister is to consider scientific advisory body to bring police-makers and scientists together.
‘€˜Hidden HIV epidemic’€™ among gay men
A small study finds very high HIV rate among gay men in Johannesburg and Durban.
ANC poised to apologise for disastrous Mbeki AIDS policy – The Times
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.
Former deputy health minister calls for Aids TRC at launch of The Virus, Vegetables and Vitamins
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.
HIV controllers may hold key to vaccine
DURBAN - Understanding how the immune systems of a group of people who are HIV infected are able to spontaneously control their infection for years could give scientists the crucial clues needed in the search for a therapeutic vaccine.
Transactional sex driving the AIDS epidemic in some groups
Transactional sex has become the status quo among young women at high risk of HIV, a study presented at the 4th South African AIDS Conference has confirmed.