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That women and girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS is well established, but a new report reveals how little we know about what countries are doing, or not doing, to address their vulnerability.
FIRST Lady Thandiwe Banda has said that Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS is the surest way of saving humanity from extinction.
A group of Tanzanian Members of Parliament has commended the ongoing efforts in the fight against HIV/Aids, saying that Rwanda is a country that offers unique solutions aimed at controlling the scourge.
The rate of new HIV infections has slowly declined in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region remains the area of the world most heavily hit by the epidemic and it accounts for nine of every 10 new infections among children.
The rate of new HIV infections worldwide has declined by 17 percent in the past eight years and prevention efforts can take some of the credit, according to the annual UNAIDS update on the epidemic released on 24 November.
ZIMBABWE will receive about US$180 million from the Global Fund to Fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with the first phase of the grant expected in January next year.
HIV prevention efforts - and the promise of antiretroviral therapy as prevention - are being undermined by punitive laws targeting those infected with and at risk of HIV, Human Rights Watch said today on the eve of World AIDS Day.
Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, we asked people on Facebook one question: What do you want to ask the U.S. global AIDS coordinator? What follows are your questions and Ambassador Eric Goosby's responses.
The Kenyan government has launched an ambitious HIV campaign to test at least one million people across the country over a three-week period.
A new data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said new HIV infections had been reduced by 17 per cent in the last eight years.
This is a moment of truth for the Commonwealth. The anti-homosexuality Private Member's Bill introduced into the parliament of Uganda, and now proceeding through the normal legislative process, puts the Commonwealth's legitimacy and integrity to the test.
Years of working as a professional nurse have convinced Seobi Matube that having more than one sexual partner is a sure way of getting HIV.
AT least 30,000 children are born with HIV in Uganda every year, the AIDS control programme manager in the health ministry, Dr. Zainab Akol, has said.
Fifteen years ago, Dan On'gayi was the first person in the western Kenyan village of Emuhaya to go public with his HIV status; at the time, the reaction from his community was so vitriolic he considered taking his own life.
Congolese women in Karamoja region should not be blamed and victimised for the increase in HIV prevalence in the sub region, the army has said.
So much has been woven around figures. Statistics on infections with HIV/AIDS are reeled out daily, as if they are what should matter. It is time to dwell on issues of how to make those living with HIV/AIDS live meaningful lives and make it less of a burden for the affected. It is also time to focus energies on preventing further infections.
Barclays Bank partnered with Virika Hospital to sponsor nutrition education among pregnant women who are HIV-positive.
This year, to commemorate the World AIDS Day, December 1, The New Vision, in conjunction with the parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDS, will award individuals who have played a remarkable role in the fight against HIV in their communities. Profiles of the people nominated by the public will be published everyday until the end of November.
This year, to commemorate the World AIDS Day, December 1, The New Vision, in conjunction with the parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDS, will award individuals who have played a remarkable role in the fight against HIV in their communities. Profiles of the people nominated by the public will be published everyday, until the end of November
Borno State Action Committee on human immuned virus/Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) (BOSACA has commence distribution of food, relief materials and instructional aids to schools.
More than one million Kenyans are expected to get tested for HIV during a national campaign launched on Monday.
South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
THE Global Fund to fight Tuberculosis, Aids and Malaria (GFTAM) has extended the country's Round 5 grant with additional funding of about US$37.9 million after the country failed to meet its targets.
COMMUNITY support groups affiliated to the Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV (ZNNP+) have formed an organisation that seeks to use sport to fight stigma.
Isolated mountain communities hard hit by HIV and AIDS in Lesotho have begun to reap benefits from the overhaul of nine healthcare clinics over the past four years.
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