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UGANDA: HIV/AIDS triggers rise...

UGANDA: HIV/AIDS triggers rise in TB infections

africa » uganda » kampala
IRIN
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Tuberculosis infection rates in Uganda have increased due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country, but the scarcity of health centres and...
tuberculosis, hiv, aids, infection, camps, health, who, nutrition
(16 views)
Linda Mbiko:

Linda Mbiko: "Johannesburg is a place of gold, but it's not easy to get that gold, even if you dig"

africa » south africa » johannesburg
PlusNews
Monday, February 04, 2008
Linda Mbiko*, a 36-year-old widow, crossed the border from Zimbabwe into South Africa, hidden in the back of a truck. She was fleeing poverty and a...
hiv, aids, support, poverty, treatment, test, arvs, patients
(21 views)
SUDAN: HIV rate is mostly gues...

SUDAN: HIV rate is mostly guesswork

africa » sudan » port sudan
PlusNews
Monday, February 04, 2008
No sign advertises the availability of voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) at the Family Planning Centre in Port Sudan, a busy transportation...
vct, hiv, aids, health, test, rate, results
(17 views)
AFRICA: HIV shifting to less e...

AFRICA: HIV shifting to less educated

africa
PlusNews
Friday, February 01, 2008
AIDS has long been characterised as a disease of poverty that has spread most rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa, the world's poorest region. But a new...
hiv, aids, poverty, socio-economic, education, global, population
(16 views)
KENYA: Drug resistance risk as...

KENYA: Drug resistance risk as displaced HIV patients skip ARV doses

africa » kenya
PlusNews
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
After a fortnight of political violence during which an estimated 250,000 Kenyans were displaced, health workers are scrambling to ensure that...
drugs, arv's, hiv, aids, patients, risk, workers, medication
(19 views)
BENIN: Efforts to reach pregna...

BENIN: Efforts to reach pregnant mothers slowly paying off

africa » benin » cotonou
PlusNews
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Rosalie Salako, 38, a mother of three, meets every week with pregnant women from the district of Pobè, 120km east of Cotonou, the main coastal town...
pregnant women, hiv, aids, treatment, PMTCT, health
(22 views)
SUDAN: PMTCT programmes still ...

SUDAN: PMTCT programmes still in their infancy

africa » sudan » kassala
PlusNews
Monday, January 21, 2008
Since the introduction of a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme in August 2007 at Port Sudan Hospital in Sudan's...
hiv, aids, PMTCT, children, risk, ARV's, infection, pregnant women, tests
(19 views)
MALAWI: Government proposes ma...

MALAWI: Government proposes mandatory HIV test for pregnant women

africa » malawi
PlusNews
Friday, January 18, 2008
Malawi's government is planning to table a controversial bill in Parliament which would require pregnant women to undergo HIV testing. The move is...
hiv, aids, women, government, WHO, testing
(23 views)
SUDAN: Fadia Awad:

SUDAN: Fadia Awad: "Three years ago, this house was full of women...they don't come anymore"

africa » sudan
PlusNews
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Fadia Awad lives with her son, Hamid, 8, in a small settlement outside Kassala in eastern Sudan. She belongs to the Rashaida tribe, a traditionally...
hiv, aids, ARV's, treatment, women, stigma, test
(17 views)
SUDAN: Awareness-raising takes...

SUDAN: Awareness-raising takes a softly-softly approach

africa » sudan
PlusNews
Friday, January 11, 2008
In a market square just outside the town of Kassala, near the border with Eritrea in eastern Sudan, every plastic chair is filled and there is...
hiv, aids, awareness, condoms, government, assistance, market, sex, marriage
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