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Africa: Adolescents Lead in HIV Infection Rate - Report
Citizen, 3 September 2017
Adolescents is the only age group where HIV rates are increasing faster in Africa, according to medical experts. Read more »
Adolescents Lead in HIV Infection Rate in Africa - Report
The World Health Organization estimates that by next year at least 1.8 million children will be on treatment from the sexually transmitted disease. The pandemic is the biggest killer of adolescents in the continent, the report says.
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Africa: Trump's HIV Aid Cuts Could Cost 9 Million Life Years Lost
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 28 August 2017
Trump's proposed budget envisions cuts to the AIDS relief programme which supports treatment, testing and counselling for millions worldwide. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: HIV Is Still Taboo in the DRC - Chronicles From Kinshasa
The Conversation Africa, 28 August 2017
In 2016 I conducted in-depth interviews with patients at a 42-bed AIDS unit run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Centre Hospitalier Kabinda in Kinshasa, as well as… Read more »
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Angola: Huila - Fight Against Aids Programme Expands Services
ANGOP, 29 August 2017
The Fight Against Aids Programme in the southern Huila Province since last May has been expanding its services of voluntary HIV tests and the holding of counselling campaigns in… Read more »
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Namibia: High Teenage Pregnancy Rate Concerns Geingos
New Era, 29 August 2017
First Lady Monica Geingos is worried about teenage girls who seem more concerned about falling pregnant and less so about contracting HIV-AIDS, a disease for which there is no… Read more »
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Africa: Activists Stunned By HIV Funding Decision
GFO, 22 August 2017
Eight grants worth nearly $60 million are affected by the decision Read more »
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Liberia: HIV Increases in Liberia
NEWS, 28 August 2017
The National AIDS Commission of Liberia (NAC) has reported an increased in the number of persons infected with HIV in Liberia. Read more »
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Malawi: Pastors Ask for Registration of Churches
Malawi News Agency, 28 August 2017
In the wake of the HIV and AIDS pandemic, Pastors Fraternal in Ntchisi Thursday asked the district council to consider registering churches to bring sanity in their operations,… Read more »
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Liberia: HIV Cases Increase
National Aids Commission, 25 August 2017
Monrovia/Friday, August 25, 2017/NAC: With the national HIV prevalence at 2.1%, the National AIDS Commission of Liberia has reported an increase in the number of persons living… Read more »
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The Uganda Population HIV Impact assessment survey - released by the ministry of health - indicates that the country's HIV prevalence has dropped from 7.3% to 6.0%. The study also ... Read more »
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Zambian President Edgar Lungu has announced the legalisation of HIV testing and treatment in all public health institutions without the informed consent of patients. Lungu says the ... Read more »
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The government plans to launch a programme where expectant mothers in northern regions of the country can get tested in other to prevent mother to child transmission. Read more »
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A nine-year-old South African girl not treated for Aids since she was a baby is still suppressing the infection. And there is a prospect ofRead more »
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Professor Peter Mugyenyi, executive director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre, says the clinical trials will see a person living with HIV receive a shot of antiretroviral ... Read more »
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The government has said Dolutegravir, the new drug for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, is already being used in Nigeria, although only by those who can afford it because of its high ... Read more »
