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Uganda: Health Ministry Promises Enough ARVs
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 06 09 2008 THE Ministry of Health has assured People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLHA) that the shortage of Anti-Retroviral drugs (ARVs) will soon be history.
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Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 06 09 2008 Global Challenges
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Uganda: Activists Fight Criminalisation of HIV/Aids
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 06 09 2008 In the boardroom of UWONET in Ntinda Minister's Village, a small group of AIDS activists sits waiting to vent their frustration over the increasing stigmatisation of HIV-positive persons in Uganda.
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Namibia: General Shali - a Man of Action
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 06 09 2008 General Martin Shali is spearheading an important transformation process in the Namibian Defence Force (NDF).
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Nigeria: 70 HIV Positive Couples Wed
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 06 09 2008 HIV positive couples are being paired up for marriage in Bauchi State in an attempt to reduce the spread of the disease, according to agency reports.
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Brazil rejects tenofovir patent
AIDSPortal | News 05 09 2008 Brazil’s National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has rejected a patent on Gilead’s version of tenofovir, one of the most commonly used antiretroviral drugs, following a lengthy investigation. The decision looks set to intensify debate over the effects of intellectual property laws on access to medicines. Previous disputes over access to medicines have focused on the use of compulsory l...
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Kenya: Prostitutes Hold Aids Cure Key
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 Sex workers in Nairobi and Mombasa may still hold the key to an HIV vaccine, according to recent studies.
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Liberia: New Aids Law Calls for Confidentiality
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 The House of Representatives Tuesday passed the Anti-HIV/AIDS law in which it stressed confidentiality of people living with the deadly disease.
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Liberia: LCC Launches Anti-HIV/Aids Coalition Soon
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 The Liberia Chamber of Commerce with support from the United Nations Agency for AIDS Control (UNAIDS) will next Tuesday launch an anti-HIV/AIDS initiative known and styled the "Liberia Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDS (LIBCAA)."
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Cameroon: Females More HIV-Infected Than Males in SW
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 Statistics drawn from the just-ended Free HIV/AIDS Holiday Campaign in the Southwest Province indicates that more women are infected by the HIV virus than men.
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Botswana: Male Circumcision Could Help Arrest HIV
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 Male circumcision is essential in preventing the spread of HIV infection.
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Uganda: Health Ministry Receives ARVs
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 THE Ministry of Health has received the first batch of the anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) from Quality Chemicals Industries.
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Uganda: Kalangala Given Motorcycles to Fight HIV
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 KALANGALA local district government on Saturday got 12 Yamaha motorcycles worth sh35m to conduct door-to-door HIV counselling and voluntary testing.
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Uganda: President Museveni to Probe Local Governments
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 THE Government is to investigate the use of the funds it gives local governments, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
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Africa: Country Leads Anti-Child Labour Campaign in Africa
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 UGANDA has been undertaking a four-year pilot project aimed at preventing child labour among AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 05 09 2008 Science & Medicine
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Africa makes modest but steady progress in HIV prevention
AIDSPortal | News 04 09 2008 YAOUNDE, Cameroon â€' African countries have made modest but steady progress in curbing HIV infection since the WHO Regional Office for Africa spearheaded the launch, in 2006, of an initiative to accelerate HIV prevention in the Region. This assessment is contained in a progress report presented by the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, to the fifty-eighth session of the Regional Co...
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Stubborn HIV rates frustrate New York City
AIDSPortal | News 04 09 2008 It has been difficult over the years to get a good statistical handle on the size of the AIDS problem in this country. But by the latest and most sophisticated measurements, the disease continues to frustrate federal and local efforts to rein it in. A recent report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the number of people newly infected each year with HIV, th...
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Rwanda: Vulnerable Children Living On the Margins
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 04 09 2008 Jean-Lambert Rukeratabaro has turned 16, but is still only in the fourth year of primary school in Byumba, north of the capital, Kigali.
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Uganda: Govt Finally Secures ARVs
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 03 09 2008 There should be a sigh of relief for persons living with HIV (PLWH) who receive treatment under the Ministry of Health arrangement.
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Uganda: Kalangala Launches Aids Campaign
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 03 09 2008 Kalangala District has launched a door-to-door anti-Aids campaign. Dr Dona Kabatesi Director of programmes at the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) was at the district's headquarters last Thursday to launch the Shs4 billion campaign.
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Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 03 09 2008 Across The Nation
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South Africa: Health Dept Dismisses HIV, Aids Fund Allegations
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 03 09 2008 The Department of Health has dismissed a Sunday newspaper report suggesting that the HIV and AIDS projects funded by the Global Fund face the danger of collapse as a result of the department's incompetence.
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Tanzania: Prominent U.S. Basketball Duo Coming
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 03 09 2008 Prominent US basketballers Matt Bonner and Jennifer Azzi are expected in Tanzania next week, the president of Basketball Dar es Salaam (BD), Simon Msoffe, said yesterday.
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Uganda: Shortage of Aids Drugs Persists, Says Ministry
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 02 09 2008 THE shortage of Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs in the country could be worse than earlier reported, according to the stock status of the health ministry's Anti-Retroviral Therapy programme.
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