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AllAfrica / HIV & STD


AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.

Benin: Voodoo Community Remains Impenetrable to HIV Outreach
09 01 2009 Voodoo rituals have long been inaccessible to anyone except disciples and priests. Even though certain practices like scarification carry a high risk of HIV infection, outsiders to the voodoo community have largely been unable to penetrate the secrecy that health officials say can be deadly to its followers.

Uganda: New HIV Cases Alarm Doctors
09 01 2009 DOCTORS have raised a fresh alarm over the rate at which Ugandans are becoming infected with HIV, especially married people.

Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
08 01 2009 Across The Nation

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Kaisernetwork / HIV/AIDS


Online resource for timely and in-depth coverage of health policy news, debates and discussions.

Surgeon-to-Patient HIV Transmission Risk Very Low, CDC Report Says
10 01 2009 The risk of an HIV-positive surgeon transmitting the virus to a patient is very low, according to a report published Friday in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Reuters Health reports. The report, conducted by M.J. Schwaber of the Israeli Ministry of Health and colleagues, examines the case of an Israeli heart surgeon who had practiced for about 20 years and performed about 150 operations each year. The surgeon in January 2007 tested positive for HIV, after which the health ministry instructed hospitals to offer HIV tests to all patients on whom the surgeon had operated since 1997. Of the 1,669 former patients identified, 545 agreed to take an HIV test. According to the report, all 545 former patients tested negative for HIV.

The report's findings are consistent with earlier studies indicating that surgeon-to-patient HIV transmission is very rare, the authors report. They add that this report and others should encourage public health groups and medical centers to revise guidelines targeted at HIV-positive health workers who perform invasive procedures (Reuters Health, 1/8). Israel's health ministry has recommended that the surgeon can return to work without restrictions on the types of procedures he or she could perform and that prospective patients do not need to be informed of his or her HIV status -- all provided that sufficient infection control measures are followed (MMWR, 1/9).

The report is available online.

Iran Postpones Verdict in Case Against Physicians Who Worked To Address HIV/AIDS
10 01 2009 Iran on Wednesday postponed a verdict in the trial against brothers Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, two Iranian physicians who implemented the country's first HIV prevention and treatment program, the Albany Times Union reports. The brothers have been held in a prison in the capital of Tehran since June 2008 on charges of conspiring to overthrow the government, as well as other charges that the prosecution did not release. The prosecution rested its case against the physicians following a one-day trial in Tehran's Revolutionary Court on Dec. 31, 2008. According to the Alaeis' attorney, Masoud Shafie, the proceeding deprived them of their due process. Jonathan Hutson, a spokesperson for Physicians for Human Rights, said that the next likely date for a verdict is Saturday, when courts are in session (Grondahl, Albany Times Union, 1/8).

Hasan Hadad, deputy general prosecutor of Tehran, in an August 2008 statement said the brothers attempted to recruit and train people to topple the Iranian government. Hadad said that the brothers were "involved in organizing gatherings on topics such as AIDS that have received attention from domestic and international" non-governmental organizations, adding that they "acted to recruit individuals to travel abroad with the aim of training them on overthrowing the system. They were well aware of their activities and topics of training, such as velvet revolutions" (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 9/24/08).

According to the Times Union, PHR is leading a global campaign calling for immediate release of the brothers. The organization has said that the charges are false, politically motivated and based on their attendance at international HIV/AIDS conferences. Health care professionals also launched a phone-in campaign this week to the Iranian mission at the United Nations, and more than 4,000 people from 85 countries have signed an online petition calling for the Alaeis' release at iranfreethedocs.org. Kamiar Alaei had completed one year of a two-year doctoral program at the University of Albany, and students and faculty have joined efforts to free the brothers, according to the Times Union (Albany Times Union, 1/8).

Advocate Urges Tanzania To Provide More HIV/AIDS Support to Elderly People, Caregivers
10 01 2009 Anna Mshigwa, CEO of the Tanga Elderly Women Resource Center, on Wednesday urged the Tanzanian government to provide more funding and support for HIV/AIDS services targeted at older people, particularly those who provide care to children orphaned by the disease, the Guardian/IPP Media reports. According to Mshigwa, elderly people in Tanzania do not receive sufficient recognition for the role they play as caregivers to children affected by HIV/AIDS. In addition, campaigns promoting awareness about the disease typically target young people, and reports on HIV in Tanzania often lack sufficient data on the impact of the disease among older populations, Mshigwa said.

According to Mshigwa, UNICEF estimates that grandparents -- grandmothers in particular -- care for about 40% of all orphans in Tanzania. She said that 60% of "orphaned children live in grandparent-headed households," adding that women particularly are likely to serve as caregivers. According to Mshigwa, many elderly people have low incomes and therefore encounter difficulty supporting their families and grandchildren. "Elderly caregivers have the right to receive support from the government for the vital service they offer to orphans whose parents have died of HIV/AIDS," she said. She added that caregivers often are "very challenged to maintain their health and that of those under their care," and therefore are "vulnerable" to HIV/AIDS themselves.

Although most HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaigns in the country target young people, elderly people still can be sexually active and spread the virus, Mshigwa said. According to Mshigwa, many older people have low literacy levels and therefore might encounter difficulty accessing written information about the disease. In addition, HIV risk and transmission among elderly people often go undetected or unreported, Mshigwa said. She noted that the UNGASS 2008 Country Progress Report did not discuss the impact of HIV/AIDS on elderly people or home-based care and support. Mshigwa added that her organization plans to advocate for elderly people affected by HIV/AIDS in Tanzania and organize a meeting to discuss the issue (Kigwangallah, Guardian/IPP Media, 1/8). Make Msuya -- a district health officer in Korogwe, Tanzania -- also recently called on elderly people to be tested for HIV/AIDS in order to help curb the spread of HIV in the country (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 1/7).

The UNGASS report is available online (.pdf).

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AIDSPortal is a joint initiative of the DFID Global AIDS Policy Team and the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development.

Nepal Launches Global Alliance on HIV and AIDS
09 01 2009 Kathmandu - The Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) organized a Global Alliance on HIV and AIDS dissemination ceremony with the participation of senior Government officials. The Global Alliance is an enabling framework to mobilize capacities and resources to provide harmonized and effective support to the National S...

NGO roots for more support for elderly HIV/Aids caregivers
09 01 2009 The Tanzanian government has been urged to allocate more funds to support elderly caregivers for the vital service they offer to orphans whose parents have died of HIV/Aids. The call was made yesterday by Anna Mshigwa, Chief Executive, Tanga Elderly Women Resource Centre (TEWOREC). She said there was also a need to formulate policies and programmes on HIV/Aids that recognised elderly people...

Senegalese AIDS activist among nine men jailed for sodomy
08 01 2009 A court in Senegal has sentenced a group of men arrested at the home of a leading figure in the country's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to lengthy prison terms. On December 19 police raided the apartment of Mr Diadji Diouf, who heads AIDES Senegal, an organisation providing HIV prevention services to men who have sex with men, and arrested him and his guests. They were con..., SANAA - Maha (not her real name), 22, has been a commercial sex worker since she was 17. She told IRIN she and her sister were forced into prostitution to provide food and medical treatment for their ailing mother. More HIV/AIDS reports "My father died when we were young and so my mother had to work as a house maid. We lived as destitutes and we could not continue our education. My mother go..., KARACHI - On Napier Road, the notorious red light district in Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial centre and largest city, thousands of women regularly risk contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) by having unprotected sex for as little as 50 Rupees (US$0.60). "I was beaten black and blue by my pimp on my refusal to have unprotected sex," said Nazli, a brothel-based female se...

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California Health Agency Ignored Law Helping Impoverished HIV Patients, Judge Rules
06 12 2008 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration flouted a six-year-oldstate law by failing to enact a program intended to provide medicalcare to impoverished Californians with HIV, a Los Angeles CountySuperior Court judge ruled in a decision made public Thursday.

Texts Used to Tackle South Africa HIV Crisis
03 12 2008 One million free text messages will be sent every day for 12 monthsfrom Monday in South Africa in a bid to raise HIV awareness andencourage testing for the disease.

Study Cites Toll of AIDS Policy in South Africa
28 11 2008 A new study by Harvard researchersestimates that the South African government would have prevented thepremature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it hadprovided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients and widely administered drugs to help prevent pregnant women from infecting their babies.

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IPS / HIV/AIDS / News


Inter Press Service is a global news agenc producing independent news and analysis of events affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations especially in the south

SWAZILAND: Patients Fail to Adhere to TB Treatment
10 01 2009 MBABANE, Jan 9 (IPS) - Every five minutes she gives a hacking cough. Ndlaleni Ndzinisa (70) says she has continuously suffered from tuberculosis for the past five years. Because she cannot afford to pay for transport to the nearest hospital, she has repeatedly failed to adhere to her tuberculosis (TB) treatment.

HEALTH-MALAYSIA: Divided Over HIV Testing
05 01 2009 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 (IPS) - A raging debate over mandatory HIV screening has exposed fear and ignorance within government, despite years of awareness campaigns to eradicate prejudice against people living with the virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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SciDev / Health / News


Latest news on health and the developing world.

Texting for TB: Mobile phones and drug adherence
09 01 2009 Text messaging to ensure that TB patients in developing countries take their medication every day is showing promise in trials.

Vitamin B12 deficiency linked to diabetes
09 01 2009 Researchers in India have found a link between vitamin B12 intake in women and diabetes in their offspring.

Shortening mosquito lifespan could tackle dengue
09 01 2009 Scientists have found a way to potentially curb the transmission of dengue fever, by halving the lifespan of its carrier mosquito.

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