JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - When it comes to incorporating gender-related policies and interventions into their HIV/AIDS programmes, three of the largest global AIDS donors talk the talk, but have largely failed to walk the walk.
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - Risky sexual behaviour has a language of its own on the University of Zimbabwe's (UZ) campus in the capital, Harare.
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - AIDS activists have reported that public health facilities in South Africa's Free State Province are experiencing serious shortages of condoms, with some clinics reporting complete stockouts.
South Africa'€™s youth have given the animated Scrutinize HIV prevention campaign the thumbs up.
South Africa'€™s flagship prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme is not being monitored properly, indicative of management neglect of the plan from national to facility level.
The Treatment Action Campaign has reported massive condom stockouts and shortages in the beleaguered Free State.
While South Africans are aware that using condoms can prevent HIV infection, the majority do not understand that having more than one sexual partner increases the risk of infection.
YAMBIO: (PlusNews) - Healthcare workers in Yambio, capital of Sudan's Western Equatoria State, have warned that the number of HIV-positive people receiving treatment has risen, and they cannot keep up with the demand for medication.
MBABANE: (PlusNews) - A new campaign in the tiny kingdom of Swaziland is looking to get couples to get tested for HIV together. They are calling it the "Love Test" - an act by two intimate partners showing their devotion to each other.
KISUMU:(PlusNews) - Lillian Awiti*, 19, from Kisumu, on Lake Victoria in western Kenya, began her pregnancy optimistically, but soon stopped going for antenatal check-ups after a nurse at her local clinic insulted her.
Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg has suspended its HIV/AIDS treatment programme as it simply doesn'€™t have the staff or space to cope with more patients.
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - The routine offer of an HIV test to children admitted to a hospital in Lusaka, Zambia's capital, resulted in more than 3,000 being diagnosed with the virus over an 18-month period.
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - Findings from a clinical trial in Haiti bring the first conclusive evidence that HIV-positive people in developing countries have a significantly better chance of survival if they start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment earlier.
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