May 13, 2004
Botswana: Merck Official Says Partnership in Botswana is Learning from Experience and Passing It On
The African Aids pandemic has thrust pharmaceutical firms into the news, as companies and their supporters and critics have debated the appropriate role of intellectual property… Read more »
May 07, 2004
Eswatini: Unpaid Caregivers Ease Swaziland's Grim Struggle Against HIV/Aids
The village of Gamula is about as far from the center of power as it is possible to be in this Kuwait-sized country of a million people. Hunger is everywhere, in the bloated… Read more »
April 18, 2004
Africa: Africa Needs 'Greater Sense Of Urgency' to Manage HIV/Aids Epidemic
K.Y. Amoako, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), which is based in Addis Ababa, is a prominent African voice for reform and… Read more »
April 09, 2004
Africa: U.S. Corporate Group Launches HIV Initiative
The Washington, DC-based Corporate Council on Africa, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has recently developed an HIV/AIDS Initiative to encourage private… Read more »
March 24, 2004
Africa: Activist Commissioner Wants to Engage Leaders at All Levels in Aids Strategy
Milly Katana is one of 20 members of Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA), which was established last year by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. She is… Read more »
March 22, 2004
Africa: AIDS in Africa: Planning for a Long War
The Commission for HIV/Aids and Governance in Africa holds its second commissioners' meeting Tuesday in the Mozambican capital, Maputo. Commission Chairman, K.Y. Amoako, argues… Read more »
January 16, 2004
Sudan: Sudan Settlement Possible in 'Days', Says State Department's Top Africa Diplomat
Although the goal of a December 31 peace agreement in Sudan has been missed, the government of Sudan and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) have… Read more »
December 15, 2003
South Africa: South Africa Health Train a New York Hit
It began as a project to provide primary eye care to rural South Africans, launched by the optometry department of Rand Afrikaans University and Transnet, a parastatal… Read more »
December 02, 2003
Africa: Disabled People 'at Significantly Increased Risk' of HIV Infection
Major gaps in national HIV/Aids prevention campaigns and treatment programs have made disabled people more vulnerable to HIV infection than their non-disabled counterparts,… Read more »
Namibia: 'The Disease Is Here, So We Must Fight it Here'
Dr. Libertine Amathila, Namibia's Minister of Health and Social Services, has been a leader in the fight against HIV/Aids in Africa. Trained as a medical doctor, she has… Read more »
December 01, 2003
Africa: US Religious Leaders Tell President Bush to Do More on Aids
In a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush Monday, 85 inter-faith religious leaders said more effort is needed from the United States if the HIV/Aids fight is to be effective.… Read more »
Africa: Deciding Who Should Be First to Get the Drugs
In Sub-Saharan Africa about 27 million adults are currently living with HIV/Aids. Yet according to the World Health Organisation, just 1% of HIV positive people in the region have… Read more »
Africa: Scale Up Treatment - But Don't Forget Prevention, Says Gayle
As the HIV pandemic has become increasingly prominent as an international public policy issue, Dr. Helene D. Gayle has emerged as a central figure in governmental and… Read more »
November 30, 2003
Ghana: Aids Treatment Plan Begins In January
Ghana's Aids Commission was set up three years ago, getting legal status in 2001. The Commission reports directly to President John Agyekum Kufuor and it has 46 members, including… Read more »
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 »
November 17, 2003
Nigeria: Shell Backs Health and Food Security Projects in Nigeria with Africare and USAID
The Shell group of companies has pledged $18.5 million for health and development projects in Nigeria. The money will be invested through two "social partnerships" - an… Read more »
November 12, 2003
Liberia: Help Us Rebuild Our Hospital, Liberian Bishop Asks
With peacekeepers deployed and an interim government in place in Liberia, how much is the humanitarian situation improving? United Methodist Bishop John Innis, who leads one of the… 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 »