An artist group, named Oloirien Sanaa Group in Arusha, has launched their film, called 'Manyanyaso', to educate people on the dangers of HIV/AIDS.
December 1 saw the people of Arusha celebrate World Aids Day by marching through the town centre. Music by the Pallotti Brass Band kept individuals walking from the Municipal Council to Sokoine Road through to the Shekh Amri Abeid Stadium. Most individuals were clad in the colour red, the international colour of World Aids Day. Children from the School of St. Jude's held a banner that epitomized ...
The role of blood-borne HIV infections from unsanitary healthcare procedures has been underestimated in sub-Saharan Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, according to several researchers and epidemiologists.
The HIV/AIDS prevalence among expectant mothers in Namibia is decreasing since 2002, Prime Minister Nahas Angula said this week.
IN April this year, Johnson Aziga, a Ugandan living in Canada was found guilty of murdering his two sexual partners by infecting them with HIV, a virus that causes AIDS.
What would you do if your husband tested HIV-positive but hides the results from you? And if you accidentally come across the results, would you crucify him for hiding the truth from you or also keep silent?
Vice Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council(AMAC), Hon. Mrs. Anthonia Okoli, has stated that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is no longer a deadly disease to humanity if people come out to ascertain their status on time for urgent medical attention.
The main objectives of the launch of 'Chasing Dreams' comic booklet are to raise awareness among the general population and key stakeholders on the individual, structural and environmental causes of HIV vulnerability of migrants and mobile populations, and to introduce it as an available resource for training and general awareness raising, as well as to understand IOM's (International Organization ...
As World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009 is commemorated, there is a need to reflect on the Namibian HIV/AIDS situation with the intention of renewing commitment to the fight against this pandemic in the country.
HIV-positive patients using a drug that the World Health Organisation says causes long term irreversible side-effects will have to make do with it until the government shifts to a lesser toxic drug.
The launch and signing of the new partnership between The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) and the Millennium Villages Project to keep babies from Africa and Uganda free of HIV provides a ray of hope despite Uganda's increase in HIV incidence.
About 80,000 women living with HIV/Aids get pregnant annually in Uganda and 20,000 to 25,000 of these pass the virus to their babies. This process of an HIV positive woman passing the virus to her baby is what has technically been referred to as Mother to child transmission.
HIV-positive patients using a drug that the World Health Organisation says causes long term irreversible side-effects will have to make do with it until the Kenyan government shifts to a lesser toxic drug.
Thirty years after the AIDS virus was discovered, experts bemoan unsteady rate of infections in Africa. This was the major highlight during World AIDS Day which was marked six days ago. According to a report release the number of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS seems to be mostly stable in other parts of the world apart from Africa.
IN order to prevent new HIV infections in Namibia, conversations have to form a part of the country's HIV prevention strategy.
Right To Play (RTP), an athlete driven international humanitarian NGO said it is working to address the specific problems of stigma and discrimination against People living with HIV/AIDS in different schools here.
MEDIA practitioners and musicians have been challenged on support campaign against HIV/AIDS in the country.
About 13,000 people are currently infected with the Human Immune Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) virus in Bauchi State with Katagum, Ningi, Tafawa Balewa and Jama' Are Local Government Areas having the highest rate among the 20 local government councils in the state.
THE 85 000 people that make up the public sector now have a policy that details the Government's approach to dealing with HIVAIDS in the workplace.
WIFE of Abia State governor, Mrs. Odochi Orji, has advocated total abstinence and mutual fidelity to partners as the best option to control the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic.
THIS week we celebrated World AIDS day. Though celebration is hardly the right word for such an occasion, it was an opportunity to highlight the fact that AIDS is still with us and take stock of the progress which has been made in combating this epidemic. In Uganda, the picture regarding AIDS is mixed - we have taken some steps forward and also gone backwards. The overall rate of HIV is now lower ...
AT LEAST 15,496 people in Rukungiri are HIV-positive, the district director of health services, Dr. Zepher Karyabakabo, has revealed.
When the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV) developed into fully blown Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and was discovered at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Teaching Hospital, Zaria, in 1986, little did people know that it would spread to other parts of the country.
I’ve served my country around the world as a career diplomat for 33 years now. I’ve seen firsthand what successful cooperation among governments and peoples can accomplish in the pursuit of shared goals. Yet, one of the strongest examples of results-focused partnerships underway is what I am now witnessing unfold in the Kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa to improve life-saving ...
OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, more than 15,000 delegates representing governments, UN agencies, non-governmental organisations and civil society will be gathering in Copenhagen to deliver a political deal on reducing carbon emissions and halting the prospect of climate change globally.
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