FIFTY HIV/Aids activists last week marched from Mhondoro to Harare to raise awareness about the disease and to pressure the government to ensure universal access to life prolonging drugs. The members of the Simbarashe National Network of People Living (SNNPL) with HIV left Mhondoro on Wednesday morning and arrived in the capital on Saturday morning.
SOUTH African HIV/AIDS advocacy group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has bemoaned what it says is a culture of fear among Zimbabweans that has stifled the fight for universal access to treatment and care for people living with the virus. TAC made the observation at the end of a fact finding mission to Zimbabwe last week where it also called for political commitment in the fight against the ...
The Program Manager of the National Aids Control program 9nacp0, Fr. Benjamin Vonhm says the provision of quality treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS is significant to improving their living condition. Dr. Vonhm said the NACP which is government arm responsible to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Liberia is collaborating with its international partners to ensure that much needed attention ...
Olympic Athlete Zersenay Tadesse has donated 300,000 Nakfa to the Martyrs Trust Fund. He told ERINA that gives him deep satisfaction to extend assistance to the families of fallen heroes.
The number of orphans and vulnerable children under the Red Cross Rwanda project, Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC), has reached 6000 since the progamme was launched in 2002.
People Living With AIDS (PLWA), under their umbrella organisation, Rwanda Women Living with HIV/AIDS (RWLH) has commenced a campaign to distribute condoms in rural areas.
KwaZulu-Natal has managed to slash HIV transmission from mothers to their newborn babies by almost two thirds - to seven percent - since it introduced "dual therapy".
December 1, World Aids Day came with all the facts, figures and pictures about the current status of the HIV/Aids pandemic. Most were frightening. The scariest of them all is that ironically a person in a stable monogamous relationship like marriage stands a higher chance of being infected with the virus that causes Aids than a sex worker exposed to hundreds of partners!
LINDA (not real name) a 35-year-old mother, was frequently beaten by her husband. "He would beat me to the point that he was too ashamed to take me to the doctor. He forced me to have sex with him and beat me if I refused. Even when he was HIV-positive, he still wanted unprotected sex.
Who will come to the rescue of the many women who suffer Nanteza's daughter's fate?
It is the World Aids Day, children, some with their mothers gather at the small office in Kaabong Town Council not sure about what will happen in the next hour.
The East African Community is currently developing a law to guide the region's response to HIV/AIDS. The move comes ahead of the commencement of the East Africa common market protocol.
Employers in private companies have stepped up programmes to fight Aids in work places, boosting the national effort to create awareness on the pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new recommendations on treatment, prevention and infant feeding in the context of HIV, based on the latest scientific evidence.
If universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care is to be achieved, experts recommend an inclusive approach to healthcare, rather than narrow HIV programmes.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has welcomed King Goodwill Zwelithini's announcement this weekend that he supports medical male circumcision and will encourage his followers to undergo the procedure which could prevent up to 60% of men acquiring HIV.
Managing Director, PathCare Medical Laboratory, Dr Pamela Ajayi, has highlighted the importance of accurate testing in the national and global HIV & AIDS response.
For Nigeria to achieve the goal of universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment Federal government must first involve the youths in policy making and invest more in the health sector while focusing on the grassroots.
Risk groups hard-to-reach areas in Nigeria need to have access to HIV& AIDS messages, so that the gains of the 2007 National HIV Reproductive Health Survey, which show appreciable reduction in prevalence may be consolidated.
Today, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) launched three annexes to its recently-released PEPFAR Five-Year Strategy. The annexes include “PEPFAR and Prevention, Care and Treatment”; “PEPFAR and the Global Context of HIV”; “PEPFAR’s Contributions to the Global Health Initiative.” These documents provide additional detail on ...
As has been the tradition in the last couple of decades, December 1 marks World AIDS Day. But after so many decades of this pandemic living with us and after so many scientific trials, the question is: Are we winning the fight? Depending on where you stand and how affected you have been the answer may differ. Needless to say, this year's World AIDS Day came with much fanfare and renewed commitment ...
"If we are to sustain the gains we've had and have made against this epidemic, PEPFAR must work in closer collaboration with country governments to support and mount a truly global response to the shared global burden of disease. ... But unmet needs are still the dominant feature of this program. ... we're going to begin transitioning from an emergency response to a sustainable one through greater ...
"Through its partnerships with more than 30 countries through September 2009, PEPFAR has provided direct support for life-saving antiretroviral treatment for over 2.4 million men, women and children. The Global Fund has supported treatment for 2.5 million people worldwide. Approximately 1.3 million people receive treatment supported by both PEPFAR bilateral programs and the Global Fund, and thus ...
"It was ordinary people, people living with AIDS and those who loved them, who spoke up, demanded action. Activists in Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Uganda and elsewhere shamed their countries, the world into action. [international AIDS programs ... were swept into place by the force of the voices crying out for justice only a few years ago. It is almost 10 years later and we're in danger of ...
This year youth participation in the December 1 World AIDS Day activities was significant as young people from Arusha organizations and schools came out to do their part in raising awareness and decreasing stigma associated with HIV.
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