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October 04, 2011
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South Africa: A Timeline of Activism
In a new book, Fighting for our Lives the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an lobby group, looks back on more than a decade of activism. Read more »
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South Africa: Twelve Years of the TAC Fight
A new book looks back on more than a decade of the life of South African lobby group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), whose brand of activism came to define the world's fight... Read more »
September 29, 2011
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Uganda: HIV Prevention For Women Dealt Blow
Hopes for a female-controlled HIV prevention tool have been dealt a blow by the termination of one part of a large African trial after it failed to show effectiveness. Read more »
September 26, 2011
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Africa: New Data Backs Early HIV Treatment Cost-Effectiveness
Modelling has demonstrated the benefits and now data has provided the proof as researchers in Haiti have found that earlier HIV treatment is cost-effective, reducing the risk of... Read more »
September 23, 2011
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Kenya: Weird Science Helping Bid to Defeat Virus
Computer gamers, glow-in-the-dark cats and neutralizing viruses sound like the stuff of science fiction but they may be the key to eliminating HIV. Read more »
September 16, 2011
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Kenya: Hidden Sex Work, HIV Risk in Dadaab
At Ifo trading centre, a short distance from northeastern Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex, Hawa*, a teenage girl, sits in a dark room on an old jerry can holding a small bunch of... Read more »
September 14, 2011
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Africa: HIV Vaccine Trial - What Happens Next?
Scientists could not explain how two infection-fighting proteins in humans affected the rate of HIV infection in participants of the vaccine trial in Thailand known as RV144 -... Read more »
September 12, 2011
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Rwanda: Plan to Treat HIV Discordant Couples
HIV-positive Rwandans in discordant relationships will start taking antiretroviral treatment (ART) as soon as they test positive as part of a plan to boost national HIV prevention... Read more »
September 09, 2011
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Malawi: ARV Supply and Funding Woes
By 9am, the Limbe Health Centre in Malawi's second city, Blantyre, is already full. HIV-positive patients are lining up to collect their antiretrovirals, despite reports of... Read more »
September 08, 2011
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Somalia: Refugees At Risk of Sexual Violence
Amina*, 27, left her home town of Kismayo in south-central Somalia at the end of May for northern Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. Read more »
September 05, 2011
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Burundi: Deaths Reported As ARV Shortage Continues
Burundian NGOs say at least 20 people have died as a national shortage of antiretroviral continues. Read more »
September 01, 2011
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Zambia: Low STI Testing Puts HIV-Positive Pregnant Women At Risk
While most pregnant women in Zambia are now tested for HIV, other sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis are not being diagnosed, placing the lives of thousands of women... Read more »
August 31, 2011
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Egypt: HIV-Positive People Battle Health Service Discrimination
The last time Mustafa Abdel Rahman, an Egyptian living with HIV, visited a hospital in Cairo, he was treated so shoddily by the medical personnel that eight years on he refuses to... Read more »
August 26, 2011
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South Africa: Policy Turnaround on Breastfeeding
South Africa's high child mortality rates have forced the government to rethink its policy on infant feeding and move to discontinue the free provision of formula milk at hospitals... Read more »
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Uganda: Calls For Inclusion of Gay Men in New HIV Strategy
A new national strategic plan for Uganda is due to be finalized before the year's end, and gay rights activists are urging its authors to break with tradition and, for the first... Read more »
August 23, 2011
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Kenya: Weak HIV-Positive People Struggle to Access Food Aid
Every morning, Julia Aukot walks 17km to eastern Kenya's Isiolo town in search of work so she can feed her six children and ailing husband; the journey is punishing, but as her... Read more »
August 19, 2011
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Swaziland: Swazis Put Lives on Hold Because of Stigma
The widespread fear of stigma and discrimination still leaves many HIV-positive people in Swaziland feeling so despondent they put their lives on hold. Many HIV-positive women have... Read more »
August 17, 2011
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Africa: 'Worrying' Drop in Global Spending on HIV
International funding for HIV fell by 10 percent in 2010 from the previous year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS; activists worry that a continued reduction... Read more »
August 16, 2011
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South Africa: 'People Who Have TB Still Face the Same Challenges I Faced in 2002'
Lihle Dlamini is the deputy general-secretary of South Africa's AIDS lobby group, the Treatment Action Campaign. As the country moves to include a strong emphasis on tuberculosis... Read more »
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South Africa: Shortage of Drug-Resistant TB Treatment Looms
While countries are rolling out new tests that will enable them to diagnose more patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), a worldwide shortage of the drugs to treat these... Read more »
August 15, 2011
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South Africa: Govt Moves to Earlier HIV Treatment
HIV-positive people in South Africa will be able to access antiretrovirals (ARVs) sooner after the government raised the CD4 count necessary to access treatment. But some warn the... Read more »
August 11, 2011
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Africa: Female Condoms Slowly Gaining Popularity - Report
Long seen as the ugly step-child of HIV prevention, the female condom seems to be gaining popularity through grassroots campaigns, according to a new report by the UN Population... Read more »
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Swaziland: HIV Prevalence Among Factory Workers '50 Percent'
A new government study has found that more than half of workers in Swaziland's garment industry are living with HIV, and officials are realizing that the once-hailed promise of... Read more »
August 08, 2011
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Malawi: Govt Converts Cash to Food for Civil Servants With HIV
HIV-positive civil servants in Malawi are unhappy with the government's announcement that it would stop providing a cash grant to help improve their diet. Read more »
August 03, 2011
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Africa: The Crazy Things They Say - Politicians and HIV
Political commitment is key to the success of HIV programmes and African leaders have been at the forefront of the fight against HIV on the continent, but politicians also have the... Read more »
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