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 »
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 »
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