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SUDAN: Funding woes continue to plague HIV fight
JUBA, 20 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - For over a year, the South Sudan AIDS Commission (SSAC) has been setting up offices in the ten states that make up Southern Sudan, but a combination of funding delays and a population largely uninformed about HIV is keeping the fight against the pandemic from (...)
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GLOBAL: We can save more babies, say researchers
JOHANNESBURG, 20 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - A ground-breaking South African study has provided the first hard evidence that treating HIV-positive babies with antiretroviral (ARV) medicines from as early as six weeks dramatically improves their chances of (...)
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NIGERIA: "With this HIV test, I thee wed"
LAGOS, 20 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Getting married in Nigeria often requires more than just the bride and groom turning up at the altar, and having witnesses and wedding rings present: many Christian churches also require an HIV test (...)
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SOUTH AFRICA: Money delayed is ARVs denied
JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - South Africa's newly sworn-in Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, came head-to-head with her first real crisis when antiretroviral (ARV) treatment was withheld from hundreds of people in Free State Province. Some may give her an "A" for effort, but others (...)
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BURKINA FASO: Finding new ways to feed HIV-positive people
OUAGADOUGOU, 19 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - High food prices and cuts in food aid to HIV-positive people are forcing relief organisations in Burkina Faso to take another look at local foods to keep people healthy.
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PHILIPPINES: A matter of faith or HIV prevention
MANILA, 19 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - While lawmakers in the Philippines debate whether to approve a controversial bill on reproductive health, health officials have warned that new HIV infections have shot up dramatically in the past (...)
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DRC-UGANDA: Overwhelmed relief workers struggle to provide HIV services
ISHASHA, 18 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has forced thousands of people to flee across the border into neighbouring countries, but relief workers in Uganda admit that HIV is low on the list of (...)
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COLOMBIA: Sex tourism booming on the Caribbean coast
CARTAGENA, 18 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - On the surface, the historic northern city of Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast is an up-market tourist destination, with cruise boat passengers strolling through the old, walled city's maze of narrow streets as sight-seers duck into (...)
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ZIMBABWE: Surviving as an HIV-positive teacher
HARARE, 17 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Memory Motsi* rents a room in Chitungwiza, about 20km from the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. She wakes up at five in the morning to get to work on time at the school where she teaches Grade 5 in Hatfield, a suburb in the city, because the poor salaries in (...)
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MOZAMBIQUE: Widows risk HIV in purification rites
BEIRA, 17 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - When Mariana Uchandidhora's husband was killed in a traffic accident in South Africa a year ago, tradition required that she have sex with her deceased husband's brother in order to be purified.