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ZIMBABWE: Fake ARVs threaten l...

ZIMBABWE: Fake ARVs threaten lives

africa » zimbabwe » harare
PlusNews
Sunday, August 26, 2007
The high cost antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and inadequate control mechanisms in Zimbabwe are driving a flourishing trade in fake ARVs by unlicensed...
regional, hiv, aids, arv, drugs, medication, fake, health, care, cost, control, price, market, patient
GLOBAL: AIDS community moving ...

GLOBAL: AIDS community moving too slowly on male circumcision

africa
PlusNews
Thursday, July 26, 2007
SYDNEY Six years, over US$20 million, and probably one million new preventable infections; that's how much it took for AIDS researchers to be...
regional, hiv, aids, circumcision, infection, treatment, scientists, university
Libya frees foreign HIV medics

Libya frees foreign HIV medics

africa » libya
Wikinews
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Libya has freed six foreign medical personnel who were convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV and sentenced to death. In jail...
regional, hiv, aids, medics, jail, trial, death, freed, doctor, children, hospital
AFRICA: Mass male circumcision...

AFRICA: Mass male circumcision - what will it mean for women?

africa » south africa » johannesburg
IRIN
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Women's voices have gone largely unheard in the debate on male circumcision as an HIV prevention method, but informal discussions with women reveal a...
editors, choice, circumcision, male, women, who, hiv, aids, prevention, culture, tradition
Libya lifts death sentences fo...

Libya lifts death sentences for nurses but makes demands

africa » libya » tripoli
Wikinews
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Last week, Libya lifted the death sentence for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinean doctor in the case about the HIV infection of hundreds of...
regional, case, nurses, death, penalty, hiv, infection, prison, eu, trial
AFRICA: Overview - At the Cutt...

AFRICA: Overview - At the Cutting edge - male circumcision and HIV

africa » south africa » johannesburg
IRIN
Monday, July 23, 2007
Is mass male circumcision the new big thing in HIV prevention, or is it a risky social experiment that threatens to divert funding from tried and...
regional, hiv, aids, transmission, circumcision, health, culture, tradition
BURUNDI: Sex and drugs leave B...

BURUNDI: Sex and drugs leave Bujumbura's homeless at risk of HIV

africa » burundi » bujumbura
PlusNews
Friday, July 20, 2007
Thousands of children and adults living rough on the streets of Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, face a daily struggle to eat and find a warm corner to...
editors, choice, children, hiv, aids, health, poverty, protection
NIGERIA: Children dying needle...

NIGERIA: Children dying needlessly from measles and other preventable diseases

africa » nigeria » lagos
IRIN
Monday, July 16, 2007
Measles is a preventable disease yet when it strikes in Nigeria it finds a ready pool of victims most of whom are children. In June more than 50...
editors, choice, children, disease, measles, aids, hiv, health, vaccines
LIBERIA: New programme to prev...

LIBERIA: New programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission gains momentum

africa » liberia » monrovia
PlusNews
Friday, July 13, 2007
Thousands of pregnant women have been tested for HIV since Liberia introduced a programme to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmissions (PMTCT) eight...
editors, choice, hiv, aids, transmission, mother, children, infection, test, health, nurses
Libyan court upholds death sen...

Libyan court upholds death sentence for foreign medics in HIV case

africa » libya » tripoli
Wikinews
Friday, July 13, 2007
The Supreme Court in Libya has upheld the death sentence for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medical intern condemned for infecting 426...
regional, hiv, aids, death, sentence, penalty, court, nurses, bulgaria, hospital, case, infecting
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