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Southern Africa: HIV pregnancy, stigma and ignorance
JOHANNESBURG, 26 January 2009 (PlusNews) – For many women, pregnancy is a time of anticipation and celebration, but for those living positively it can be frustrating when their status – and not their pregnancy – takes centre stage. Being pregnant and positive often comes with…
Author: Plus News
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Activists Lament Lack of HIV/TB Co-Treatment
by Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN, Mar 26 (IPS) – Despite repeated calls for integrated HIV and tuberculosis (TB) health services from medical experts and AIDS activists, most of South Africa’s public health facilities continue to treat the diseases independently. Co-infection presents a major risk to…
Author: Inter Press Service
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Campaign targets passage of HIV from mother to child
Original Source HA NOI — The Ministry of Health yesterday launched a campaign on prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in an effort to ease the increasing impact of the disease in Viet Nam. Speaking at the launch ceremony held in Ha Noi, Deputy Prime Minister…
Author: Vietnam News Service
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HIV Treatment Now For 2.5 Million
By Zinhle Mapumulo About 1 million more people are expected to be added on to the government’s HIV-treatment programme, bringing the number of those receiving such medication to at least 2.5 million. Aids lobby groups that had been campaigning for more people to be put…
Author: The New Age
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Army's HIV policy unconstitutional, court hears
Original Source Pretoria, South Africa It is impossible to have an HIV-free South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and a defence-force policy discriminating against people with HIV is unconstitutional, the Pretoria High Court heard on Thursday. The Aids Law Project, acting on behalf of the…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Number of HIV/AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa expected to greatly outpace resources
WASHINGTON — The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of the decade, forcing African nations to make difficult choices about how to allocate inadequate supplies of lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART),…
Author: National Academy of Sciences
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Barbara Hogan paves a new path in SA
Original Source On World Aids Day, the British Government announced a donation of £15m (R231m) for the South African government’s anti-HIV programme, in a vote of confidence for South Africa’s Minister of Health Barbara Hogan. In an interview with the BBC, Ivan Lewis, the UK’s…
Author: SAPA
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HIV a real threat to Vietnam's under-15s
Approximately 5,700 children under the age of 15 in Vietnam will be infected with HIV in the next three years, according to a recent report by the Department for HIV/AIDS Prevention. The department has worked alongside the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS and a number…
Author: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
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HIV infected prisoners' suffering
by Khopotso Bodibe It was September 2005. South African Aids activists were busy focusing on countering rampant Aids denialism and trying to get government to speed up access to antiretroviral medication for millions of HIV-positive citizens. At Durban’s Westville Prison, another sad chapter in South…
Author: Cape Argus
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South Africa must lead in HIV-Aids fight
SOUTH Africa should set a bold example to the rest of the world by resolving to triple the number of people on anti-retroviral medication by 2015. This is according to a coalition of organisations, including the Treatment Action Campaign and Doctors Without Borders (DWB), that…
Author: Sowetan Live
