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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.

Nigeria: Jonathan Inaugurates Population Council
08 07 2008 Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday inaugurated the National Council on Population Management charging it to implement the National Population Policy.

Nigeria: State Govt Rejects Report on HIV/Aids Statistics
08 07 2008 The Kano State government has described as unscientific, the survey report released by the Federal Ministry of Health which shows that the state leads in HIV/AIDS infection by drug users and non brothel based sex workers in the six focal states of Cross Rivers, Lagos, Anambra, Edo and the FCT.

Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
07 07 2008 Global Challenges

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Kaisernetwork / HIV/AIDS


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

Study Finds Antiretroviral Treatment Approach in South Africa, Switzerland Equally Successful
08 07 2008 "Public-Health and Individual Approaches to Antiretroviral Therapy: Township South Africa and Switzerland Compared," PLoS Medicine: The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Bern and the University of Cape Town, analyzed data collected since 2001 from more than 2,000 people enrolled in HIV treatment programs in two townships in Cape Town, South Africa, and from more than 1,000 HIV-positive people enrolled in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study. The study found that South Africa's "programmatic" public health approach to HIV treatment was found to be as effective as the "individualized" approach used in Switzerland (PLoS Medicine release, 7/7).

Editorials, Letter to Editor Respond to Senate Republican Block of PEPFAR Reauthorization Legislation
08 07 2008 Several newspapers recently responded to the decision by some Senate Republicans to continue to block consideration of legislation that would reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, as well as other issues. Summaries appear below. Editorials

New York Times: The "tiny group" of Republicans that continues to block the PEPFAR reauthorization legislation "has deprived President Bush of a legislative achievement that could help him spur" other countries during this week's Group of Eight industrialized nations summit in Japan to "contribute substantially more money" to global HIV/AIDS efforts, a Times editorial says. It adds that it is "better late than never" to remove the block because it "remains important to blast through the legislative roadblock and bring this broadly supported bill to a vote on the Senate floor." The editorial concludes that if "necessary, Senate Democratic leaders should undertake the potentially time-consuming task of forcing the bill to a vote" (New York Times, 7/7).
Arizona Republic: The PEPFAR reauthorization legislation "is an important, well-crafted bill that needs to move forward," a Republic editorial says. There is a "sliver of time" for the Senate to pass the bill before the "final gavel" of the G8 summit, the editorial says, adding that its passage would make Bush's efforts to call on other countries to increase funding for global HIV/AIDS programs "a lot stronger." The cost of PEPFAR "is large, but so is the problem -- and it's one that impacts the United States both directly and indirectly," the editorial concludes (Arizona Republic, 7/3).

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Geeta Rao Gupta, Washington Post: Sam Ruteikara, co-chair of the Uganda National AIDS Prevention Committee, "correctly emphasized" the need for PEPFAR to focus on HIV prevention and behavior changes in Uganda in a recent Post opinion piece, Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women, writes in a Post letter to the editor. However, Ruteikara's reference to a "suspicious statistic attacking marriage" confuses HIV incidence and prevalence, "tainting his conclusions," Gupta adds. "Far worse, however, is Ruteikara's implication that marriage provides women a safe haven from HIV," Gupta writes, adding, "Power inequalities within marriage, as well as different social roles and expectations, place married women in Africa and elsewhere at risk of HIV infection" (Gupta, Washington Post, 7/5).

Los Angeles Times Examines National Efforts To Address HIV/AIDS in the Black Community
08 07 2008 The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined efforts within the black community to address HIV/AIDS. According to the Times, a "growing number of [black] celebrities and leaders" are joining up with local activists, who "have worked for decades to draw attention to the toll of HIV in the black community."

Blacks account for almost half of the estimated 1.2 million U.S. residents living with HIV and represent 13% of the overall U.S. population, according to CDC data. Women account for more than one-third of AIDS cases among blacks, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

According to the Times, reasons for higher HIV prevalence among blacks include poverty, which can affect access to health care and cause depression; a widespread distrust of the health system, which "feeds conspiracy theories, such as one that holds that black people are deliberately infected with HIV when they get blood transfusions or have blood drawn"; and the black community's silence early on about HIV/AIDS. High rates of incarceration in low-income communities also contribute to the spread of HIV among blacks, the Times reports.

Wilbert Jordan, medical director of the Los Angeles-based OASIS Clinic at the Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, said, "The black community is where the gay white community probably was in the late 1980s or early 1990s," adding, "But we're not where we need to be still."

In 2006, 16 mainstream black organizations, including 100 Black Men of America, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the National Council of Negro Women, made pledges to address HIV/AIDS in the black community. That same year, leaders from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People took public HIV tests and made the tests available at their national convention.

The national "I Stand With Magic" campaign, an effort by former National Basketball Association player Earvin "Magic" Johnson and his wife Cookie, urges blacks to be tested and seeks to reduce new HIV cases among blacks by half. The five-year, $60-million project is funded by Abbott Laboratories.

The Johnsons also appeared together in a public service announcement that aired on YouTube and cable television in June. Filmmaker Spike Lee directed the ads. According to the Times, the participation of Cookie Johnson, "usually camera-shy," "is a sign of a growing outspokenness among [blacks] about the community's disproportionately high HIV rates."

"There's still a small part of our community that thinks, 'It can't happen to me,'" Cookie Johnson said.

Phill Wilson, director of the Black AIDS Institute, said, "We need a mass, coordinated initiative that really engages black institutions all over America, from churches to civil rights organizations to media to fraternities and sororities." He added, "The good news is that we are starting down that path. The bad news is that we're just starting" (Engel, Los Angeles Times, 7/6).

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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.

UNAIDS and Kaiser Family Foundation release new report assessing funding for AIDS by G8 countries and other major donors
08 07 2008 As world leaders prepare to meet in Hokkaido, Japan for the annual meeting of the G8, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Kaiser Family Foundation have released a new report analysing the funding available for AIDS from G8, European Commission (EC) and other donor governments in 2007. The report shows that assistance for AIDS from donor governments to low- and middle...

G8 leaders retreat from Africa aid pledge
08 07 2008 WHEN the leaders of the world's richest nations gathered at Gleneagles in 2005, they solemnly pledged to double aid to Africa by 2010 and tackle climate change. Three years on, their mighty ambition and high rhetoric have been replaced by a series of broken promises. Only the UK and Japan have come close to maintaining the kind of aid budgets required to meet the Gleneagles targets. The G...

Development and Africa
08 07 2008 Editor: Points 45 and 46 (Health) of the press release are reproduced here. Click on the link below to view the full document. Health 45. As a result of its growing political and financial commitment to fight infectious diseases, the G8 has raised international awareness on global health issues and contributed to remarkable improvements on health in partner countries, notably access to HIV/AI...

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NYC to push HIV testing for every adult in the Bronx
26 06 2008 While infection rates are higher in Manhattan, the Bronx has the highest death rate from AIDS among the city's boroughs. Experts say the Bronx plan would be the nation's most aggressive testing effort.

UN chief calls for end to travel bans for those with HIV/AIDS
11 06 2008 Ban Ki-Moon said it was "shocking" that there is still discrimination or stigma against people with HIV.

Worldwide access to HIV drugs growing
03 06 2008 WHO reports that almost a million more people in developing countries are now on antiretroviral drugs than a year ago. But even with the games, almost 70 percent of those infected still don't have access.

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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

G8: 'Investment In Health Is Effective Aid'
04 07 2008 GENEVA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Japan wants next week's summit of seven major western industrial nations and Russia (G8) to urge the international community to push towards combating HIV/AIDS. It sees this as a critical objective of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are meant to be achieved by 2015.

G8: 'Investment In Health Is Effective Aid'
03 07 2008 GENEVA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Japan wants next week's summit of seven major western industrial nations and Russia (G8) to urge the international community to push towards combating HIV/AIDS. It sees this as a critical objective of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are meant to be achieved by 2015.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Refugees Denied Access to Health Care
01 07 2008 DURBAN, Jul 1 (IPS) - Refugees and migrants do not have adequate access to health care services in South Africa, aid organisations and NGOs say. This is particularly detrimental for those who are HIV-positive and in need of continuous antiretroviral (ARV) medication: interrupted treatment can mean illness, development of drug-resistance and ultimately death.

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Latest news on health and the developing world.

Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 19 June�'3 July
03 07 2008 Kenya and Nigeria prepare cassava crop trials, DRC to benefit first from US$5 billion hydro project, yaws disease still a threat, and more.

Powerful new tool to diagnose drug-resistant TB
02 07 2008 Following successful clinical trials of a new tool to diagnose drug-resistant TB, the WHO has endorsed its use in all affected countries.

Sanitation 'crucial' for tackling water-borne disease
01 07 2008 A new WHO report concludes that effective and affordable methods for tackling sanitation are essential to control water-borne diseases.

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