As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to celebrate this year's World AIDS Day, Nigerian government has been given a pass mark on the reduction of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the last few years just as the issue of stigmatisation has been identified as a major challenge in the war against HIV and AIDS in the country.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton highlighted the continued threat HIV/AIDS poses to the world in a special event at the White House, calling HIV/AIDS "the defining health challenge of our time."
The minister without portfolio, António Bento Bembe, said last Tuesday in Luanda that he is against the discrimination of people who are HIV/Aids positive, as this attitude promotes disrespect to human rights.
A medical team has been flown to East Pokot and Turkana East districts after a cholera outbreak killed 27 people.
AIDS researchers, scientists and activists have welcomed the changes to South Africa's HIV/AIDS treatment policy, announced by President Jacob Zuma on World AIDS Day.
An array of interventions aimed at slowing the rate of new HIV infections in Africa has been tried over the last two decades. Some were tested to see if they actually worked, but many were not.
Water minister Charity Ngilu has said her Ministry is not to blame for the Cholera outbreak that has so far caused 194 deaths in the country since January.
The following is a special briefing with Global AIDS Coordinator Amb. Eric Goosby on the U.S. approach to fighting HIV/Aids and the new U.S. administration's administration PEPFAR strategy.
Disclosure of a HIV positive status to a partner remains one of the greatest challenges in the fight against the Aids scourge.
Executives of Vodafone Ghana and the National Blood Transfusion Centre (NBTC) have called on Ghanaians to willingly donate blood to the blood bank, without expecting rewards in return.
The HIV prevalence rate in Mozambique has dropped from 16 to 15 per cent of people aged between 15 and 49, according to the Health Ministry.
Chairman of National Population Commission (NPC), Chief Samu'ila Makama, has stressed the importance of immunizing children against childhood diseases to save their lives.
South Africa's top scientists and researchers have come out in support of health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi after the furore over Home Affairs supplied AIDS death statistics he quoted recently - which may have been incorrect.
Poor adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment came to the fore on World Aids Day commemorations last Saturday at the Monarch Kgotla.
Civil society organisations have mostly lauded President Jacob Zuma as "committed and serious" in the fight against the HIV and AIDS pandemic.
A doctor from the South Rand Hospital has been dismissed with immediate effect for professional misconduct.
UGANDA yesterday marked World AIDS Day with messages urging men to go for voluntary counselling and testing services.
YESTERDAY, the world celebrated World AIDS Day under the theme 'Universal Access and Human Rights'. World AIDS Day reminds us that HIV/AIDS has not gone away, and that there is still a lot to be done. Accessibility to anti-retroviral treatment remains a big challenge, especially in the developing world.
AS Uganda marked World AIDS Day on December 1, we recognised that an increased number of children are living with HIV/AIDS. Some of these children have had access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs since 2004, while others do not.
The grim news coming out of the Lake Zone on the swine flu epidemic is that what the local health officials are confronted with is an enormous challenge that calls for a serious national response.
Hundreds of people living with HIV/AIDS yesterday stormed the Yar'adua center, venue of this year's event marking the World AIDS Day in Abuja, calling for the resignation of the Director General of NACA Professor John Idoko.
Couples intending to get married in Bauchi State are to undergo compulsory HIV/AIDS test. This is part of the government's efforts to control the spread of the disease in the state, Commissioner for Health, Samaila Tella, has said.
ABOUT 600 HIV-positive people in Kaabong district have registered with local non-governmental organisation to access antiretroviral drugs (ARVs).
FISHERMEN have been warned against risky behaviour that exposes them to the HIV/AIDS virus. Yesterday, Nsambya Home Care of Nsambya Hospital hosted over 400 residents at Gaba landing site on the shores of Lake Victoria as part of the activities to mark the World AIDS Day.
In a troubled world economy and in a world threatened by the spread of epidemics, the Tunisian pharmaceutical sector which provides 50% of market needs in drugs and 60% in volume is posting a stronger growth.
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