Advocates claim that the United Nations "has failed women", and that a new women’s agency was already lacking transparency.
Activists fear not enough will be raised to meet the minimum requirements.
The International Aids Conference theme, "Rights here, right now", highlights a global push towards a human rights approach to HIV/Aids.
Flat-lined rather than scaled-up funding promises to be a central issue at the International Aids Conference in Vienna.
Hard-fought gains against HIV/Aids are being threatened by international donors “flatlining” funding for treatment programmes.
Hopes are high that a study of a broad-based preventative approach will dramatically reduce prevalence among particularly vulnerable miners.
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/ 18 December 2009
Researchers and advocates have singled out South Africa’s under-staffed and overcrowded prisons as hotbeds for the transmission of HIV and TB.
Thousands of miners with chronic diseases associated with their work may never get paid the compensation owed to them.
A swine flu vaccine is on the way, but it may travel slower than H1N1. Mara Kardas-Nelson reports.
Acts of intimidation and the violent disruption of towns and cities were reported throughout the country during this week’s municipal strike.