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Scourge of HIV/Aids hits adoptions
13 10 2008 HYDERABAD - In what is certainly bad news, adoptions have reduced drastically in the city with 60 per cent of the abandoned children turning out to b e human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive. According to the records of the women and child welfare department, of the 125 children who were abandoned in the city and the surrounding districts of Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda, and who were potent...
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Malawi: AIDS organisations face funding interruptions
10 10 2008 JOHANNESBURG - Grassroots AIDS organisations in Malawi are facing uncertainty as the National AIDS Commission (NAC) ends its dependence on international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for dispersing grants. The responsibility for channelling funds to more than 3,000 AIDS organisations working to alleviate the impacts of HIV and AIDS in Malawi has now shifted to local government authorit...
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'Therapeutic vaccine' for AIDS within four years, Nobel Prize winner predicts
10 10 2008 Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, shared half the [Nobel] award with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur for their work in pinpointing the cause of the disease. On receiving the honour, Montagnier said a treatment could be possible in the future with a "therapeutic" rather than preventive vaccine for which results might be published ...
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Nigeria: 'Empowering HIV/Aids Positive People Will Alleviate Poverty'
10 10 2008 Government and relevant stakeholders have been called upon to help empower people living with HIV and AIDS; as a way to alleviate poverty among the masses in Nigeria. The call was made by the Executive Director of Ajegunle Community Project (ACP), Alhaja Roli Daniju, during a programme on stigmatisation organised by the group in Lagos. ACP is committed to reducing social inequalities among g...
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Uganda: 46 years on, women still not independent
10 10 2008 Women, not only in Uganda but world over, are the most affected by the HIV epidemic. Estimates show that out of about one million Ugandans living with HIV, more than half are women. It is not that they are the most sexually active, but the one factor that puts them at great risk is their inherent dependence on men and the subsequent vulnerability. Women in Uganda have no inheritance rights; th...
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Secretary-General's statement following meeting with pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies working on HIV and AIDS
10 10 2008 Secretary-General's statement following meeting with pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies working on HIV and AIDS I met today with senior executives of seventeen of the world's research-based and generic pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies. Together with senior officials from the United Nations system, we met to review progress on strengthening individual and collective efforts to expand..., HARARE - The new board of Zimbabwe's National AIDS Council (NAC) has a glaring omission: not one member is living openly with the HI-virus. AIDS activists have slammed the move, describing it as "discriminatory" and a step backwards in the fight against the epidemic. The NAC was established in 1999 to coordinate and facilitate Zimbabwe's multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS, and the board makes...
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Secretary-General, drug companies agree to boost efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS
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Nepal: ‘Ensure free treatment to HIV people’
06 10 2008 KATHMANDU - HIV positive women have complained that te present policies and programmes of the government has failed to address their problems. At a press conference organised by Shakti Milan Samaj, a social organization working for HIV positive women here today, they said though they had heard that a great amount was received in aid for HIV/ AIDS sector from donors, their problems could not be ...
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HIV up sharply among women, gay men in China
06 10 2008 HONG KONG - HIV infections jumped 8-fold over the past few years in parts of China among gay and bisexual men, according to new data from southern China. Published in Nature, the study found that the proportion of HIV-positive women of child-bearing age doubled in the past 10 years and researchers warned the disease was moving from high-risk communities into the wider population. There were ...
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Uganda: Disabled in the north missing out on HIV services
06 10 2008 GULU - Disabled people in northern Uganda - many of whom were injured in the long conflict between the government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) - are calling on the government to provide a more targeted HIV response. Although there have been no rebel attacks in the region for over two years, the LRA planted landmines across the region and local people continue to find unexploded or..., They should be familiar with NACO protocols and policies Denial of services should be viewed seriously and action initiated NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday approved the Central government’s direction to all States that doctors in government and private hospitals should not refuse treatment to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). All States should implement the Central government’..., Pretoria Programme Director Senior Officials of the Department of Health Members of the Media. The last few days have been a hectic period for me, starting with my appointment by the President of the Republic Mr. Motlanthe on Thursday; to being sworn in on Friday; to meeting with the Deputy Minister on Monday, then with the Director-General of the Department on Monday afternoon; to attendi...
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Cambodia: More money needed to treat young HIV/Aids patients: govt
06 10 2008 Despite generous funding from various global funds, tackling the growing problem of children with HIV/Aids will require $7 million a year Cambodia needs at least US$7 million per year to strengthen HIV and Aids services and treatment, particularly for children, said Mean Chhivoan, the director of National Centre for HIV/Aids, Dermatology and STDs (NCHADS). "So far, we have received funding f...
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Zimbabwe: Boost for agric HIV/Aids strategy
06 10 2008 THE Food and Agriculture Organisation has made available a US$450 000 facility to the Technical Co-operation Programme on HIV and Aids to achieve lasting improvements in the agricultural production and food security of HIV and Aids-affected households and communities in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean Agriculture Minister Cde Rugare Gumbo said his ministry realised gaps in the implementation of some prio...
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Malawi: Solving health worker shortages
05 10 2008 KATHMANDU, Oct. 1: HIV-infected women have complained that the present policies and programmes of the government has failed to address their problems. At a press conference organised by Shakti Milan Samaj, a social organization working for HIV infected women here today, they said though they had heard that a great amount was received in aid for HIV/ AIDS sector from donors, their problems could...
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Nepal: ‘Ensure free treatment to HIV people’
05 10 2008 HONG KONG - HIV infections jumped 8-fold over the past few years in parts of China among gay and bisexual men, according to new data from southern China. Published in Nature, the study found that the proportion of HIV-positive women of child-bearing age doubled in the past 10 years and researchers warned the disease was moving from high-risk communities into the wider population. There were ...
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HIV up sharply among women, gay men in China
05 10 2008 Pretoria Programme Director Senior Officials of the Department of Health Members of the Media. The last few days have been a hectic period for me, starting with my appointment by the President of the Republic Mr. Motlanthe on Thursday; to being sworn in on Friday; to meeting with the Deputy Minister on Monday, then with the Director-General of the Department on Monday afternoon; to attendi...
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04 10 2008 A study in Peru has demonstrated the importance of early drug susceptibility tests to diagnose multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and the necessity of environmental control measures to prevent airborne TB transmission. The investigation, carried out in a hospital in Lima, was published in PLoS Medicine last week (16 September). Researchers found that just ten HIV/TB patients out of 97 we...
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'Early testing best' for drug-resistant TB
04 10 2008 JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's newly appointed health minister, Barbara Hogan, has inherited an unenviable to-do list from outgoing minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, but AIDS activists are optimistic that she is up to the job. Hogan has no background in health, but has been a member of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) since 1977 and a member of parliament since 1994. She is known for ...
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South Africa: New health minister has work cut out for her
04 10 2008 CAPE TOWN ' AIDS activists on Friday celebrated the removal of South Africa's health minister, accused of causing countless unnecessary deaths by promoting nutritional supplements instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV. New President Kgalema Motlanthe, within hours of taking office Thursday, won instant praise by announcing that Manto Tshabalala-Msimang would be removed as health ...
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South Africa's removal of health minister praised
04 10 2008 HARARE - AIDS activists are hoping that the country's new administration will make good on promises to urgently improve access to affordable HIV/AIDS treatment and services at state hospitals. The country's three political parties - ZANU-PF and the two factions of the majority Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - signed a power-sharing deal on 15 September, ending one of the worst periods of ...
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Zimbabwe: New government gives HIV-positive people hope
04 10 2008 TETE - Inês Muterua, 29, lies on a frayed straw mat between two mud huts and places an old tin can full of sand by her side. "I usually spit my phlegm into this can to keep from spitting just anywhere and contaminating others, like what happened with me." Muterua contracted tuberculosis (TB) in October 2007 while taking care of her mother. After she died, the young woman was advised to take a T...
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Mozambique: Winning small victories against HIV and TB
04 10 2008 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the publication of a final rule that will streamline the issuance of certain short-term non-immigrant visas to people infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) who are otherwise qualified to enter the United States. Under this new regulation, Department of State consular officers overseas will now have the authority to g...
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Streamlined Process Announced for Otherwise Eligible HIV-Positive Individuals to Enter the United States
04 10 2008 New York, NY - Two months after Congress voted to repeal the ban on HIV-positive travelers to the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced yesterday that it will issue regulations which purport to “streamline” the waiver application process for HIV-positive short-term visitors. The move comes nearly two years after President Bush directed the agency to streamline the process and f...
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USA: Regulatory Change to HIV Travel Ban Continues to Stigmatize HIV-positive People, Fails to End Ban
04 10 2008 The arrival of colonial cities in sub-Saharan Africa at the dawn of the 20th Century may have sparked the spread of HIV. US experts analysed one of the earliest samples of the virus ever found, in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1959. The study, published in the journal Nature, suggests the virus may have crossed from apes to humans between 1884 and 1924. They believe newly-built citi...
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04 10 2008 LILONGWE - A chronic lack of healthcare workers in Malawi has crippled the health system, but a different way of doing things has alleviated the shortages, bringing new players to the field. Many Malawian doctors and nurses head to wealthier countries in search of greener pastures, so the government has been forced to come up with a plan driven by an idea known as "task shifting", in which some...
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Malawi: Solving health worker shortages
04 10 2008 Pretoria Programme Director Senior Officials of the Department of Health Members of the Media. The last few days have been a hectic period for me, starting with my appointment by the President of the Republic Mr. Motlanthe on Thursday; to being sworn in on Friday; to meeting with the Deputy Minister on Monday, then with the Director-General of the Department on Monday afternoon; to attendi...
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