A new study by researchers in the US says African healthcare workers are contracting HIV faster than they are being lured abroad by better-paying jobs
Weak healthcare systems and a shortage of healthcare workers are undermining efforts to deliver antiretroviral drugs to Africa.
A new centre for children infected with HIV, which opened in Maputo this week, plans to use advanced technology to treat the disease.
Last Friday UN Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa Stephen Lewis called for a rapid increase in the provision of antiretroviral drugs for Mozambique.
A new centre in Botswana is piloting some innovative strategies to address the emotional and medical needs of HIV/Aids healthcare providers.
Major funding has been earmarked to find faster-acting tuberculosis (TB) drugs that do not clash with anti-retroviral medications.
HIV/Aids organisations in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, have warned people to be on the lookout for individuals selling fake antiretrovirals (ARVs).
Former United States president Bill Clinton this week said he supports mandatory HIV testing in countries with high prevalence.
HIV/Aids and human rights activists have called for commercial sex work to be decriminalised as a means of tackling the spread of HIV/Aids.
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/ 25 January 2006
The worsening humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is making children more vulnerable to abuse, according to child rights NGOs.
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/ 13 December 2005
Adding zinc to the diets of HIV-positive children helps protect them, researchers report.
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/ 7 December 2005
India’s Health Minister, Ambumani Ramadoss, has described his own country’s main Aids body as “visionless”.
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/ 30 November 2005
Treating bilharzia can benefit people with HIV/Aids, according to researchers.
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/ 23 November 2005
Malaria could encourage mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to research on the Science and Development Network website.
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/ 10 November 2005
Nine million young people in Nigeria are to be sent text messages on Wednesday to raise awareness about HIV/Aids.
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/ 2 November 2005
A new counter that reflects the estimated real-time number of Aids-related deaths in South Africa has been posted on www.redribbon.co.za.
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/ 19 October 2005
Researchers are exploring the implications of allowing HIV-positive patients to take a break from their medications every weekend.
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/ 13 October 2005
Brazil has reached an agreement with US pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories to lower Aids drug Kaletra’s price.
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/ 28 September 2005
Women aged 15 to 24 in South Africa are substantially more likely to be HIV-positive than their male counterparts, according to a study.
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/ 7 September 2005
A new iron curtain has emerged between East and West, triggered by Aids.
As a generation of young Swazi women ended a five-year vow of chastity in a traditional ceremony this week, health officials are debating the impact.
A recent survey has uncovered mixed feelings about HIV vaccines. One of the discoveries was that several people believe an HIV vaccine already exists.
India’s National Aids Control Organisation is asking soft-drink manufacturers to include HIV/Aids awareness messages in their advertisements.
New Zealand recorded 33 new Aids cases in the first six months of this year, more than double the number reported in the first half of 2004.
Asia faces a 150% increase in HIV/Aids infections over the next five years unless more is done, a report warns.
The HIV/Aids pandemic could explode across Asia – where one in four new infections worldwide occurs – unless authorities do more to fight the disease.
Malawi has launched a comprehensive welfare plan to mitigate the impact of poverty and HIV/Aids on its estimated one million orphans.
Former United States president Bill Clinton this week announced that the Clinton Foundation is pledging $10-million to provide Aids treatment.
During the first open forum since the government announced the antiretroviral roll-out, health workers and officials shared their experiences.
Namibia is feeling the pinch of providing treatment to civil servants living with HIV/Aids.
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/ 16 February 2005
A new strain of HIV — resistant to three of the four classes of antiretroviral drugs available — has been identified in New York, say officials.
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/ 9 February 2005
From next year students in Bangladesh will be given lessons about HIV/Aids issues for the first time.