A former journalist and human rights activist is giving some of Kenya’s abandoned girls a second chance at childhood, writes Judy Bryant.
The Zambian government has begun treating people living with HIV earlier, a move intended to reduce deaths.
Nearly three-million people in the developing world are now on drugs to prevent their HIV infection becoming Aids.
Organisations are working to ensure that Burma cyclone survivors living with HIV are included in relief efforts.
In Swaziland the mystery of why people refuse to use condoms is slowly being unravelled.
Muslim leaders in Kenya’s North-Eastern Province have resolved to campaign against the promotion of condoms as a means of preventing HIV.
Harsh living conditions in Kenya are making it difficult for HIV-positive people displaced in the recent election violence to stay healthy.
Twenty years into the pandemic, people are looking for new ways to live with HIV and, for some, alternative medicine has become part of the answer.
Becky Mugisha* had been ill with a hacking cough for three months before she was admitted into one of Kampala’s tuberculosis (TB) wards.
Efforts to combat the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the DRC have been slowed by the problem of TB patients also infected with HIV.
Aids-related deaths in South Africa: 2 424 770 at noon on March 18 Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers. Far from being on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing child mortality by two-thirds, the country is among only a dozen worldwide where child deaths are rising. […]
The apparent détente between the national Health Department and the Treatment Action Campaign is to be applauded, but will it stick?
A study has found that home-based ARV therapy provided by trained counsellors could be the best option for HIV-infected people living in remote areas.
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/ 20 February 2008
The first microbicide to reach the final phase of testing has failed to prevent HIV transmission, researchers announced this week.
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/ 15 February 2008
Author Jonny Steinberg’s <i>Three-Letter Plague</i> has attracted serious critical and retail attention in the US, writes Charlotte Bauer.
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/ 5 December 2007
Suhail Abu al-Sameed looked calm, yet he was shaking inside. He was seated before a row of ulama, distinguished Islamic scholars.
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/ 17 October 2007
More than a third of patients on HIV medication in sub-Saharan Africa die or discontinue their treatment within two years of starting, a survey shows.
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/ 19 September 2007
The female condom has failed to take off in Kenya, depriving women of one of the few means over which they have control of protecting themselves.
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/ 12 September 2007
The complex biology of the HI virus has posed constant challenges and even a partially effective vaccine is still some years away.
President Thabo Mbeki has unleashed a storm of controversy with his sacking of deputy minister of health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
Thousands of pregnant women have been tested for HIV since Liberia introduced a programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission eight months ago.
Contamination of the Aids drug Viracept created panic among HIV-positive Zambians on antiretroviral therapy.
Small Aids organisations in Malawi are being monitored after a recent move by the National Aids Commission to suspend financial aid.
Young Ugandans living with HIV prefer to date partners who are not HIV-positive. This was revealed in a study among adolescents.
Tuberculosis cases are rising rapidly in the Mozambican coastal town of Beira, according to local doctors.
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/ 14 February 2007
HIV prevalence on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian island of Zanzibar is on the rise.
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/ 7 February 2007
As Zimbabwe’s disgruntled doctors continue their strike, concern is growing about how the prolonged stayaway is affecting HIV-positive patients.
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/ 31 January 2007
The UNHCR has launched a new policy to ensure that HIV-positive refugees around the world have access to life-prolonging ARV medication.
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/ 13 December 2006
Research in Kenya indicates that the rapid spread of HIV/Aids across Africa is linked to malaria.
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/ 29 November 2006
The Catholic Church has told the Kenyan government to ban the advertisement and distribution of condoms ahead of World Aids Day.
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/ 8 November 2006
The government of Sierra Leone is faced with the challenge of stigma attached to HIV/Aids, which is derailing its efforts to supply ARVs.
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/ 27 September 2006
Smoking might increase the risk of contracting HIV, according to a study published in the journal <i>Sexually Transmitted Infections</i>.