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  • NEPAL: HIV widows on the edge NEPAL: HIV widows on the edge
    RAKAM, 15 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Widows living with HIV in Nepal's remote hill districts in some of the country's poorest and vulnerable communities face a particularly bleak future.

  • HIV/AIDS: Global Fund will have US$1.6 billion more HIV/AIDS: Global Fund will have US$1.6 billion more
    JOHANNESBURG, 10 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that it will have US$1.6 billion more to invest in life-saving programmes between 2012 and 2014.

  • RWANDA: Substantial HIV funding has not hurt other patient care RWANDA: Substantial HIV funding has not hurt other patient care
    NAIROBI, 9 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - The large amount of donor funding that has gone into Rwanda's fight against HIV has not affected efforts to prevent and treat unrelated diseases, such as malaria and measles, and may in fact have improved overall healthcare, a six-year study has found.

  • DRC: Reducing the HIV risk of girls living on the street DRC: Reducing the HIV risk of girls living on the street
    KINSHASA, 8 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Sarah, 16, started sleeping on the streets of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic republic of Congo (DRC), when she was only eight years old. She doesn't remember how she came to live on the streets, but thinks it was soon after her mother died.

  • DRC: HIV effort needs government, donor commitment to succeed DRC: HIV effort needs government, donor commitment to succeed
    KINSHASA, 4 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Many national hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not accepting new HIV-positive patients for antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. The only way to get onto a treatment list is to wait until a space opens up due to a death or drop-out, or seek the limited treatment options available outside the government's programmes, but few people can afford the drugs.

  • UGANDA: Combining safe riding on a motorcycle taxi with safe sex UGANDA: Combining safe riding on a motorcycle taxi with safe sex
    KAMPALA, 3 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - It's Saturday night and Jaffari Musoke*, who rides a 'boda boda' - motorcycle taxi - arrives at his regular stage, or departure point, near several hotels in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. He has an easy camaraderie with the sex workers who hang around the hotels, taking many of them home after a night's work. Sometimes he mixes business with pleasure.

  • HIV/AIDS: New book tracks the epidemic to its origins HIV/AIDS: New book tracks the epidemic to its origins
    MBABANE, 2 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - We've all heard the myths and hypotheses about the origins of the epidemic caused by the HI virus, but a new book, “Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It”, sheds more light on where it all began. It is a fascinating account of the medical detective work that traced the disease to Cameroon a century ago.

  • UGANDA: Inadequate healthcare and rising HIV prevalence in Karamoja UGANDA: Inadequate healthcare and rising HIV prevalence in Karamoja
    MOROTO, 30 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - The nomadic Karimojong ethnic group, once regarded as a low-risk HIV population because regional instability in northeastern Uganda and strong adherence to their culture kept them relatively isolated, have not been a priority on the country's HIV agenda, but recent statistics show prevalence among this community is now 5.8 percent, up from 3.5 percent five years ago.

  • EAST AFRICA: Regional HIV Bill passed without criminalization clause EAST AFRICA: Regional HIV Bill passed without criminalization clause
    NAIROBI, 27 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - East Africa's Legislative Assembly has passed a regional HIV/AIDS Bill that seeks to protect the rights of people living with HIV and harmonize regional legislation and policy on the prevention and treatment of HIV.

  • SWAZILAND: Nurses demand protection from TB infection SWAZILAND: Nurses demand protection from TB infection
    MBABANE, 26 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Hospitals are not protecting their workers from tuberculosis (TB) infection, say nurses in Swaziland, who recently staged a rare public demonstration to draw attention to how vulnerable they are to this highly infectious disease.

  • KENYA: Protest over $500 million in unspent PEPFAR funds KENYA: Protest over $500 million in unspent PEPFAR funds
    NAIROBI/KISUMU, 25 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - More than 400 Kenyan AIDS activists have demonstrated in the capital, Nairobi, demanding that the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief release some US$500 million for HIV programmes in Kenya that is stuck in the pipeline.

  • KENYA: High court ruling on anti-counterfeit law "upholds right to health" KENYA: High court ruling on anti-counterfeit law "upholds right to health"
    NAIROBI, 25 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Kenyan HIV activists say a ruling by the High Court that the definition of "anti-counterfeit" in the 2008 Anti-Counterfeit Act is too broad will save millions of lives and protect the right to life of citizens.