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Current Feed ContentSWAZILAND: Vincent Mdluli, "HIV has ended more romances than anything else"MANZINI Monday, December 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Vincent Mdluli, 24, lives in Manzini, Swaziland, and works as a carpenter's assistant. He told IRIN/PlusNews what happened when he found out his girlfriend was HIV positive, and how the discovery changed his life. "My friend, do you know that HIV has ended more romances than anything else? A wife tells a husband she's HIV and he leaves her. Most times it is the man who infects the woman; he has affairs outside their relationship, he gets infected,...NAMIBIA: Strategies to keep patients on ARVsJOHANNESBURG Tuesday, September 16, 2008 (IRIN) - Just over 50 percent of HIV-positive Namibians thought to be in need of life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) treatment are accessing the drugs, but the country is struggling to keep track of patients. Namibia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. With a population of just two million scattered across an area more than four times the size of the United Kingdom, delivering life-long ARV treatment to some of its more...CAMBODIA: Rising drug use jeopardises AIDS successPHNOM PENH Thursday, October 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Evidence of the large-scale use and manufacturing of methamphetamine in Cambodia could pose a new challenge to the fight against HIV/AIDS, warned non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In the capital, Phnom Penh, 14 percent of injecting drug users were found to be HIV positive in 2006, rocketing to 35.1 percent in 2007, according to statistics from the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), a government body. Studies have found that...SOUTH AFRICA: Thousands of lives lost in treatment delaysJOHANNESBURG Friday, November 07, 2008 (IRIN) - A new study estimates that more than 330,000 HIV-positive South Africans lost their lives between 2000 and 2005 as a direct result of government delays in rolling out a treatment programme. The report by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health was published in November in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). The researchers attributed the deaths to government policies that blocked the distribution of...LESOTHO: Motlomelo Thakali, "There were days on which I lived on water, but still had my ARVs"MASERU Monday, September 15, 2008 (IRIN) - Motlomelo Thakali lives with his family of five in Motloang, a village 70km east of Maseru, capital of Lesotho. He is HIV positive and unemployed, and depends on casual work to help feed his family, comprising his daughter, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. Lesotho's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 23.2 percent is one of the world's highest. The country is still recovering from the impact of the 2006/07 drought, the worst in 30 years. "There was...KENYA: Frederick Wanzere: "I am a mechanic now but one day I will go back to university"NAIROBI Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Frederick Wanzere, 25, was lucky enough to go to university, but when his guardian (an uncle) found out he was HIV-positive, he stopped paying the fees. Wanzere has had to become a mechanic to help his younger siblings. He told IRIN/PlusNews his story. "At times life turns out to be what you don't even expect. When I lost my parents while still in secondary school I thought that would be the last misery I would ever have to go through in life. But I... |
