October 04, 2005
South Africa: Innovative HIV/Aids Program Targets South African Teachers
Four South African teachers' unions have joined with U.S. and South African partners to save teachers' lives through an innovative program combining peer education, HIV testing and… Read more »
September 29, 2005
South Africa: De Beers Workers Rush for HIV Testing, Treatment
Global diamond giant De Beers, which is 45 percent owned by Anglo American Plc, was honored Wednesday night for its workplace programs on HIV/Aids. Jonathan Oppenheimer, De Beers's… Read more »
Africa: CEOs, Members of U.S. Congress Meet on Aids Fight
Concerned that competing priorities will blunt efforts to fight HIV/Aids around the world, the Global Business Coalition on HIV/Aids (GBC) held a series of high-level events in… Read more »
September 18, 2005
Africa: U.S. Hedge Funds Tackle Malaria 'Emergency' in Africa
After a global eradication programme eliminated or greatly reduced malaria in most of the world by 1969, the disease was largely overlooked in international development planning.… Read more »
September 15, 2005
Uganda: Foreign Minister Hopeful on End to LRA Conflict
Uganda has amended its constitution and moved from a no-party political setup to a multi-party political arrangement, abolished presidential term limits, with a presidential… Read more »
July 11, 2005
Nigeria: HIV/Aids in Nigeria: Can We Beat It?
C. Payne Lucas, president-emeritus of Africare, currently serves as senior advisor to AllAfrica Global Media and the AllAfrica Foundation. The article is the prepared text of an… Read more »
July 07, 2005
Africa: Aid Should be Tied to Needs, Goals, Says U.S. Official
However distracted by Thursday's bombings in London, the G8 meetings in Gleneagles, Scotland continued with consideration of global climate change and a working lunch that South… Read more »
July 01, 2005
Africa: G8 Should Focus on HIV, Women's Empowerment
When the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations meet next month in Scotland, they will debate how to address the HIV/Aids crisis and whether to significantly increase… Read more »
Africa: Bush Promises US$1.2 Billion to Africa Malaria Fight, Says Results Count
President defends Africa record in interview and says Laura Bush to visit South Africa, Tanzania and Rwanda Read more »
June 27, 2005
Zambia: Zambia Is a Peaceful Destination for Tourism and Investment - Mwanawasa
Levy Mwanawasa, who took part in last week's U.S.-Africa Business Summit, became president of Zambia in January 2002 after a hotly contested election the previous month in which he… Read more »
June 24, 2005
Nigeria: JAAIDS Leads Fight Against Aids Through the Media
Nigeria is one of five "next wave'" countries identified by global health experts as likely to experience a crisis from rising rates of HIV infection. A U.S. national intelligence… Read more »
June 21, 2005
Tanzania: Innovative Hospital Rehabilitation Project Aims to Improve Care
An innovative rehabilitation project for Tanzania's leading public hospital has improved the quality of the nation's health care, paved the way for a national anti-retroviral drug… Read more »
June 17, 2005
Namibia: Namibia Deserves Aid, Debt Relief, Despite 'Mid-Income' Status, Says President Pohamba
Hifikepunye Pohamba, who three months ago became Namibia's second president since independence in 1990, was one of five African leaders who met with President George Bush at the… Read more »
June 02, 2005
Uganda: Peace Is in Sight, But Term Limits a Hindrance, Says Uganda Minister
In 1907, captivated by its natural beauty, Winston Churchill called Uganda the Pearl of Africa. For many years, the country's Makerere University, whose history as an educational… Read more »
May 26, 2005
Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha
Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »
April 20, 2005
Africa: UN Aids Envoy Tapped by Time
Canada's former United Nations ambassador, Stephen Lewis, who serves as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, has been named by Time magazine in… Read more »
April 11, 2005
Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator
After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »
March 24, 2005
Zimbabwe: Death by Denial: a Case for Zimbabwe
It is difficult to overstate the trauma and hardships that the increase in Aids-related morbidity and mortality has brought upon children in Zimbabwe. According to UNICEF, one in… Read more »
February 20, 2005
South Africa: Aids Underlies Sharp Rise in South Africa's Death Rate
New South African government statistics show that the number of reported deaths rose by a dramatic 57 percent between 1997 and 2002, mostly as a consequence of tuberculosis,… Read more »
February 11, 2005
South Africa: Domestic Progress and Promise Highlighted in Mbeki's Address to the Nation
In his State of the Nation address to the South African Parliament, President Thabo Mbeki has painted a picture of a country which has never in its entire history enjoyed such a… Read more »
January 31, 2005
Africa: Skilled Africans Filling Key Posts Abroad, Draining Home Countries of Vital Expertise
"There are more Ethiopian doctors in the United States than there are in Ethiopia," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a forum on Africa's brain drain meeting in Addis Ababa last… Read more »
December 02, 2004
Nigeria: PAHF Opens New Syringe Factory in Port Harcourt
Every year, Aids, tuberculosis and malaria cause more than five million deaths and cost the African continent hundreds of millions of dollars. With levels of public health spending… Read more »
December 01, 2004
Africa: World Aids Day 2004 Addresses Plight of Women and Girls
If HIV/Aids is to be defeated, the world needs to work together to make a difference in the lives of those who have been infected and affected, especially women, Lapologang Lekoa,… Read more »
November 30, 2004
Eswatini: The Feminization of HIV/Aids in African Countries
Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women's and Children's Health Symposium: The… Read more »
Botswana: Reaching Out With Anti-Aids Strategies for Women and Girls
Presentation by H.H. Mr. L.C. Lekoa, Botswana's Ambassador to the United States, for World Aids Day at "Reaching Women and Girls," a conference co-hosted by CSIS Task Force and the… Read more »
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