South Africa: President Fires Deputy Health Minister

South African President Thabo Mbeki has fired his deputy health minister amidst controversy over a foreign trip and reported disagreements with the health minister over HIV/Aids… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Representative Lantos Calls for More Support for Aids Program

Representative Tom Lantos (Democrat – California) has called on the United States Congress to support President George W. Bush's efforts to renew the President's… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Celebrity Campaign Raises $25 Million

The RED Campaign, a celebrity-backed effort to raise money for for the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has recently reported that its partners have raised U.S.… Read more »

Mali: Film Review - 'Everything's Fine'

Everything's Fine (Toro Si Te) is a wonderful, humorous and serious documentary that tells the story of Dr. Seydou Konaté, a Malian doctor working in Nongon, a small… Read more »

Africa: Aids Battle Makes Progress But More Work Needed, Says World Bank

Africa is making progress in the fight against HIV, according to a report just released by the World Bank. Read more »

Africa: Bush Launches New Funding Plan for HIV/Aids

U.S President George W. Bush is asking Congress to follow up his Administration's current program to fight HIV/Aids around the world with a new plan doubling spending to $30… Read more »

Eswatini: Report Links Discrimination to HIV

Gender-based discrimination in Botswana and Swaziland is integrally linked to the high rates of HIV infection among women in those countries, a study by Physicians for Human Rights… Read more »

Africa: 1,500 to Gather for International Women and Aids Summit

Urgent action to cut rising HIV infection rates among women and girls will be planned at what is billed as the world's first international summit on women and Aids. Read more »

Kenya: HIV Center Running Out of Space

The Coptic Mission in Africa has operated the Coptic Hope Center, a comprehensive HIV health facility, in Nairobi since 2004. The facility, which has been very successful in… Read more »

Africa: Bush Includes Continent's Needs in Annual Address

In his 2007 State of the Union address, United States President George W. Bush urged Congress to increase funding for Aids relief, malaria, and development in Africa. Read more »

Africa: First Ladies Call for New HIV/Aids Initiatives

Three African first ladies, Azeb Mesfin of Ethiopia, Jeanette Kagame of Rwanda, and Maureen Mwanawasa of Zambia, have called for new and further-reaching approaches to combating… Read more »

Africa: Businesses Urged to Help Employees With HIV/Aids

Panelists at an Africa-wide conference on the critical role of women and girls on the continent have urged businesses to support them in addressing the HIV/Aids crisis. Read more »

South Africa: Strategic Concerns Deepen S.Africa-U.S. Shared Interests

Nigerian oil may be crucial to U.S. energy needs but South African President Thabo Mbeki seems to be the crucial figure in U.S. political needs in Africa, and also increasingly… Read more »

South Africa: Government Takes Lead in Tackling HIV-AIDS Crisis

The South African government has moved to end the years-long controversy over its policies on HIV and AIDS by unveiling the outline of a four-year national strategic plan to cut… Read more »

Rwanda: Second Annual National Conference on Pediatric Aids Opens

National attention is focused on Kigali as the Second National Paediatric Conference on Treatment, Care and Support to Children Infected and Affected by HIV and Aids opens Monday.… Read more »

Africa: Violence Against Women Inherently Linked to HIV, Advocate Says

In August, the Global Aids Alliance released a report, Zero Tolerance, that outlines the impact of violence against women and girls on the fight against HIV/Aids. AllAfrica's… Read more »

South Africa: Women's Empowerment May Take Two

This week, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan released two long-awaited reports on human rights issues affecting billions of people worldwide: the Study on Violence Against Women and… Read more »

Ghana: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania

Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania Read more »

Africa: Former U.S. President and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tie African Development to Investment, Capacity Building

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's foreign minister and former finance minister, used the occasion of a summit of African and African American… Read more »

Eswatini: Women Care for Families Struck by HIV Through Handcraft Trade

Women in Swaziland's rural areas, hard-hit by HIV/Aids, are responding to the family crisis through a private business that supplies 500 different outlets throughout the world with… Read more »

Africa: Diplomats Stage 'Africa Week' in Washington to Showcase What Africa Has to Offer

The African Union, whose members include 53 African nations, is this week marking the anniversary of the founding on May 25, 1963 of its predecessor, the Organization of African… Read more »

Zambia: Food Program Helps More Get Benefits of HIV Treatment

Scattered wheelbarrows litter the ground outside Kanyama Health Center's anti-retroviral clinic in Lusaka, Zambia. Just beyond them, a long line of patients has formed, each… Read more »

Botswana: Men Should Be Targeted in Aids Fight, Botswana Health Minister Says

The fight against the HIV/Aids epidemic in Africa goes well beyond lab rooms and hospital wards and involves social and political issues at all levels of society, particularly… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa

A controversy about preventing HIV/Aids - the most profound strategic threat to Africa's future - has been raging over the past year in Uganda, a country that registered one of the… Read more »

Africa: A Vital Weapon Against HIV/Aids

The worldwide destruction brought on by HIV/Aids cannot be overcome by an after-the-fact crisis management approach. We need a war mindset. The pandemic calls for a multi-pronged… Read more »