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GLOBAL: Conference throws spot...

GLOBAL: Conference throws spotlight on growing TB threat

africa » south africa » cape town
PlusNews
Monday, November 12, 2007
The 38th World Conference on Lung Health started in Cape Town on 9 November, bringing together more than 3,000 scientists in the ongoing battle...
regional, conference, TB, heald, world, hiv, scientists, diseases, drugs, patients
GUINEA-BISSAU: Paying the pric...

GUINEA-BISSAU: Paying the price for disclosing their HIV status

africa » guinea bissau » bissau
PlusNews
Friday, November 09, 2007
If they could go back in time, perhaps they would do things differently. Three women who revealed their HIV-positive status on local television have...
editors, choice, programme, NGO, Action Aid, prices, hiv, status, support, project
470 Farmers Sensitized on HIV/...

470 Farmers Sensitized on HIV/AIDS

africa » gambia » tujereng
The Point
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
At least 470 farmers drawn from four villages in Kombo South, namely, Jambanjelly, Sanyang, Tujereng and Jamburr were lately sensitised on HIV/AIDS...
events, farmers, hiv, aids, training, NAS, disease, health, workshop
SWAZILAND: Declare HIV/AIDS a ...

SWAZILAND: Declare HIV/AIDS a "humanitarian emergency"

africa » swaziland
IRIN
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
The impact of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, which has nine of the world's most affected countries, needs to be reassessed as a "humanitarian...
regional, hiv, aids, humanitarian, emergency, health, economic, growth, researchers
ZIMBABWE: HIV rate falls again

ZIMBABWE: HIV rate falls again

africa » zimbabwe » harare
IRIN
Sunday, November 04, 2007
When Zimbabwe registered a decline in HIV prevalence rates in 2004, and again in 2006, the news was met with scepticism, but new official figures...
regional, hiv, decline, rate, prevention
SOUTHERN AFRICA: HIV-induced f...

SOUTHERN AFRICA: HIV-induced famine's impact on agriculture

africa » south africa » johannesburg
IRIN
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Hunger and HIV/AIDS are reinforcing each other in Southern Africa, "leading to a potentially tragic new level of famine", says a book published by a...
editors, choice, hunger, famine, hiv, agriculture
BENIN: AIDS stripping farmers ...

BENIN: AIDS stripping farmers of their land

africa » benin » cotonou
IRIN
Friday, November 02, 2007
Comlan Houessou certainly knows what he is talking about when it comes to the impact of AIDS on rural communities. He is a farmer in Benin who has...
editors, choice, hiv, aids, farmers, land, treatment, traditional healer, agriculture
BENIN: Agricultural techniques...

BENIN: Agricultural techniques adapted to the constraints of HIV/AIDS

africa » benin » cotonou
IRIN
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Experiments in new agricultural techniques by a Benin research centre could give a considerable boost to farmers living with HIV/AIDS. Comlan...
regional, agriculture, techniques, farmers, people, hiv, aids, training, agrobiology
Sound City to Organise Goudi N...

Sound City to Organise Goudi Ndanaan

africa » gambia » kololi
The Point
Friday, October 26, 2007
For the first in the history of Senegambia’s showbiz, Sound City, a music promotion company in The Gambia, has concluded arrangements to stage a...
art, news, Sound City, showbiz, hiv, aids, treatment, music, promotion, Goudi Ndanaan, gala dinner
SOUTH AFRICA: Sugar Daddies fi...

SOUTH AFRICA: Sugar Daddies find plenty of sweet teeth

africa » south africa » johannesburg
PlusNews
Friday, October 26, 2007
It is 10 o'clock on a Friday night in Soweto, Johannesburg's most famous township, but it's still early for The Rock, a nightclub popular with the...
editors, choice, suger daddies, girls, women, wealth, gifts, victims, hiv, aids, risks
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