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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
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
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

GTTI Students’ Union President extol Jammeh

africa » gambia » kanifing
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Morr B Ceesay, President of The Gambia Technical Training Institute Students’ Union (GTTISU) has expressed profound gratitude and appreciation to...
gttisu, hiv, breakthrough, president, donation, gtti, education, support, schools, celebration, students
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
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
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
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
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
MOZAMBIQUE: Property grabbing ...

MOZAMBIQUE: Property grabbing leaves orphans destitute

africa » mozambique
PlusNews
Friday, January 11, 2008
On a farm in the district of Bárue, in the central province of Manica, 16-year-old Helena Ivan hurries home with a small bundle on her head. After...
orphans, hiv, aids, diseases, law, inheritance, family members
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