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People living with HIV in fear as impact of donor funding cuts begin to show in eSwatini
HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach…
Mozambican children die after US funding cuts: Who bears responsibility?
The least the Trump administration could have done was provide ample warning that it was going to cut aid
Trump’s HIV funding cuts will also hit diabetes, cervical cancer and depression hard
As government clinics take on HIV patients who were previously treated by Pepfar-funded projects, the treatment of conditions like diabetes and heart disease will come under…
The case of the minister and the HIV activists: Are we entering denialism 2.0?
Activists say the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and accusing them and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation
South Africa struggles to limit human trafficking – USAID report
South Africa under-reports human trafficking cases and is poor at apprehending perpetrators
US cuts funding for condoms in African clinics
The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa.
Burma: ‘If we don’t act now, more lives will be lost’
The United States sent its first aid flight to Burma on Monday, but experts warned the relief effort was floundering and 1,5-million cyclone survivors were at grave risk from…
US flies cyclone aid to Burma
The first United States military aid flight landed in Burma on Monday, but relief supplies continued to just dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a cyclone. A C-130…
‘DC Madam’ hangs herself in mother’s shed
The ”DC Madam,” whose arrest for running a high-end prostitution ring sent sex-scandal tremors through the United States capital, hanged herself on Thursday in a shed at her…
Food aid slashed as price of grain soars
International aid agencies on Saturday called for emergency food programmes to be overhauled as the soaring price of grain and other staple crops threatens to bring further…
Bush plays healer-in-chief in rural Tanzania
United States President George Bush handed out hugs and bed nets to battle malaria in Tanzania’s rural north on Monday, saying the US is part of an international effort to…
Microbicide trial failure deals blow to Aids war
An anti-Aids gel that had reached the final phase of testing was unable to prevent the transmission of HIV, research NGO and non-profit organisation the Population Council said…
Obama takes first blood as Super Tuesday goes abroad
From the Indonesian city where Barack Obama spent part of his childhood to Hong Kong’s bars and a Dublin pub, United States Democrats abroad grabbed their first chance to vote in…
Gunmen kill US official in Sudan
Gunmen killed a United States government aid agency official and his driver in Khartoum on Tuesday, US and Sudanese officials said. The unknown assailants opened fire as the…
Fight against Aids: ‘We must do more’
Activists and global leaders used World Aids Day on Saturday to warn against complacency in fighting the disease and called on governments to fill a multibillion-dollar funding…