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THE number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide continued to grow in 2008, reaching an estimated 33 million, according to the just released report of UNAIDS.
ZIMBABWE is entering its rainy season, a time that most welcome but also the time when cholera bacteria that have managed to survive the dry seasons are washed into rivers, puddles and wells and are able to start breeding again.
UNITED Nations (UN) Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa, Elizabeth Mataka has called for long-term, sustainable programmes aimed at addressing factors which make women and girls more vulnerable to HIV infections.
Dignitaries, political leaders, and even sports and films stars,, united on Tuesday for the global commemoration of World Aids Day.
The following statement was delivered by the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Eisenhower Executive Office in Washington, DC.
She bubbles with enthusiasm and wears a broad smile everyday, thanks to her daughter, who was 12 at a time she contemplated suicide.
Twenty two people have been admitted to two health centres in Hola suffering from cholera-related diseases. Most of the patients were from five villages in a remote part of Tana River District. Ten are in an isolation ward at Bura sub-district hospital.
A research released on Monday revealed that HIV positive workers in Kenya still face stigma and discrimination despite enactment of work place policies to shield them in their places of work.
Thousands of Kenyans on Tuesday volunteered for HIV tests to mark the World Aids Day.
By the time US president Clinton declared HIV/Aids a national security emergency, it was obvious that no one was safe from it. But the world had already lost a quarter century in the war against the pandemic. Over 33 million people worldwide have been infected with HIV.
A wave of change swept over South Africa when President Jacob Zuma announced bold and life changing policies for people living with HIV and AIDS on Tuesday.
Attitudes to HIV and AIDS still need to change, says KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize.
In time for World AIDS Day, which this year highlights universal access to HIV services and human rights, the WHO has issued new, welcome recommendations on the use of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that promise to bring countries closer to reaching the Millennium Development Goals and the global community closer to eliminating pediatric HIV and AIDS around the world.
Do the drugs you buy from your local chemist bear a Kenya Bureau of Standard mark? Beware. They could well be counterfeits.
More than 60 pupils were on Tuesday circumcised to mark the World's Aids Day and raise further awareness in Mombasa about the state of HIV epidemic in the country and the world at large.
It is funny. The more I listen to pharmaceutical industry players on increasing access to quality medicines, the more relevant Nkrumah's African unity becomes.
A research conducted by the World Health Organisation (W.H.O) has indicated that by the year 2010 mental illness will become the second leading non-communicable disease in the world.
Ghanaians are generally satisfied with the performance of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), a survey report released by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) said on Thursday in Accra.
The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that the two programs are jointly supporting antiretroviral treatment for nearly 3.7 million of the estimated 4 million individuals in low and middle-income countries who currently receive treatment globally.
AS the world marks World AIDS Day today, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag behind as the region most affected by HIV.
Doctors have been urged to uphold ethics so as to protect patients under their care from professional negligence.
A citizen's assessment of the National Health Insurance Scheme show an increasing level of registration under the scheme, with a total subscription increasing from a low of 1,797,140 in 2005 to 12,518,560 in 2008, though significant variations in registration exist across geographical and socio-economic groups.
Procter and Gamble has launched the 'Always Care Programme' at St Mary's Senior High School, Accra. The programme, which seeks to ensure a better and healthier life for girls between the ages of 13-21years, comprises a scholarship scheme for 50 girls, hygiene and puberty education programme, as well as a free bus ride for girls in some selected schools in the country.
During the 5th pediatric conference held in Kigali last week, stakeholders in the fight against HIV/AIDS have called for more efforts in early testing of children to detect the infection in time.
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.
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