November 30, 2003
Uganda: How One Country Began Winning Against HIV
Uganda is globally famous for having achieved a massive reduction in HIV prevalence. According to the World Health Organisation, in the capital city, Kampala, the level of HIV… Read more »
November 26, 2003
Africa: HIV/Aids Money, Millennium Challenge Account Funds On Hold As Senate Adjourns
After wrangling over everything from funding energy development to Medicare, the U.S. Senate has fled Washington for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays without managing to… Read more »
October 29, 2003
Africa: HIV in Africa - The "Myth" of Absorptive Capacity
An official of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria says that African nations can effectively absorb and spend more money than has been allocated to the battle… Read more »
September 22, 2003
Africa: Warnings, Anger, Passion and Determination at Major African Aids Conference
Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, opened the 13th International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (known as Icasa) Sunday in the capital, Nairobi,… Read more »
September 21, 2003
Africa: Ex-President Rawlings Challenges "Behavior" of African Men
Speaking at a Washington, D.C., dinner Friday night, former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings said a significant part of the fight against HIV/Aids in Africa required targeting… Read more »
August 08, 2003
Africa: UN HIV/Aids Envoy Presses Case for Treatment as a Human Right
On Friday the South African government instructed the ministry of health to develop a plan for the distribution of HIV/Aids drugs by the end of September. Although Aids activists… Read more »
July 10, 2003
Africa: Mbeki Urges AU to Ratify Peacemaking Organ, New Chair Elected
The outgoing chairman of the African Union (AU), South Africas President Thabo Mbeki, Thursday urged AU member states urgently to ratify the African Peace and Security Council,… Read more »
July 04, 2003
Africa: When We See Suffering, We Will Not Turn Away - George Bush
The message U.S. President George W. Bush says he is bringing to Africa is that America cares about Africa's future and that it is in the U.S. national interest for Africa to… Read more »
July 03, 2003
Africa: US Africa Policies Look Good but Lack Substance, Say Critics
Apparently compassionate U.S. initiatives for Africa such as the promise of $15bn to help fight HIV/Aids are "at this moment, fictitious, because they remain unfunded" and… Read more »
May 29, 2003
South Africa: Mbeki Still in Denial Says HIV Treatment Activist
South Africa's most famous Aids activist is called Zackie Achmat. He has been HIV positive for more than ten years and leads the Treatment Action Campaign, which is fighting for… Read more »
April 30, 2003
Africa: Act Quickly On Aids, President Urges Congress
President George W. Bush Tuesday asked the Congress to hurry up and pass a five-year US$15bn initiative to combat HIV/Aids. "Time is not on our side, so I ask Congress to move… Read more »
April 29, 2003
Africa: Conservatives Battle to Derail Bush Aids Plan's Passage in Congress
Although President George W. Bush is scheduled to announce support on Tuesday for legislation approved by a Congressional committee authorizing funding for a five-year US$15bn plan… Read more »
April 03, 2003
Africa: $15 Billion HIV/Aids Legislation Approved By Congressional Committee
By a 37-8 vote, Wednesday, the House International Relations Committee approved a five-year US$15 billion legislative proposal to prevent and treat HIV/Aids in Africa and the… Read more »
March 28, 2003
Africa: New Aids Coalition To Lobby For Bush's $15-Billion Plan
The fight to overcome HIV/Aids in Africa must be "front and center," says former Congressman J.C. Watts, an Oklahoma Republican who is co-chairing a new organization established to… Read more »
February 27, 2003
Southern Africa: UN's Envoy in Washington to Convey Enormity of Food/Aids Crisis
At the end of January, the UN Secretary General's special envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa, James Morris, completed a tour of four countries in the region and said… Read more »
February 10, 2003
Africa: Applause For Bush HIV/Aids Speech; Concern For Global Fund
President George W. Bush's surprise call urging an "Emergency Plan for Aids Relief" targeted at the "most afflicted" nations of Africa and the Caribbean has been applauded for the… Read more »
January 30, 2003
Africa: Bush Aids Pledge Stirs Hope and Questions
The announcement by President George Bush of an additional $10 billion in funding "to turn the tide against Aids in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean" came as… Read more »
January 23, 2003
Africa: Washington is Neglecting African Needs, Say Campaign Groups
If there is to be global security, Africa must be moved from the margins to the center of U.S. foreign policy; that's the view of three campaign organisations who Thursday called… Read more »
December 03, 2002
Burkina Faso: HIV/Aids' Campaigner Brings New Hope To Sufferers
Mamadou Sawadogo, a nurse from Burkina Faso, is a determined and cheerful optimist. He is also HIV-positive. Sawadogo, 34, became infected with the virus after a needle-stick… Read more »
December 01, 2002
Africa: HIV/Aids Specialist Says Reducing the Spread of Infection is Achievable
As World Aids Day again called attention to the continuing spread of HIV/Aids in Africa and elsewhere, AllAfrica talked to Dr. Helene Gayle, director of the U.S. Centers for… Read more »
November 20, 2002
Africa: 'New-Variant' Famine: How Aids Has Changed the Hunger Equation
Just as HIV destroys the body's immune system, the epidemic of HIV and Aids has disabled the body politic. As a result of HIV, the worst-hit African countries have undergone a… Read more »
October 08, 2002
Africa: Bono Recognized for Work Against Poverty, Aids
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States, which presents the annual Grammy Awards for music, will present its 2003 MusiCares Person of the Year… Read more »
September 17, 2002
Lesotho: Recycling Tin Cans into Houses
Pick up one bit of trash - in this case, an empty soda can - and ask yourself what it might be good for? Read more »
September 04, 2002
Botswana: Mogae in the Spotlight at AAI Dinner and Congressional Black Caucus
"Perhaps overshadowed" by South Africa, Botswana has been "quietly plugging" away at development and meeting some success, despite being battered by HIV/Aids, says Africa-America… Read more »
July 12, 2002
Africa: Washington's 'Africa Community' Salutes Veteran Campaigner Lucas
"Unless we do something now there will not be any Africa!" With forceful words on the need for organization and to campaign against HIV/Aids, former Africare head C. Payne Lucas… Read more »
