A court in Libya today sentenced six Bulgarians for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV in the country. In handing down the verdict before a crowded Tripoli court, Judge Mahmoud Haouissa said, in the name of the people and after reviewing the documents and hearing the arguments by lawyers of both sides
Muslim clerics from 25 African countries failed to reach consensus on the use of condoms in preventing HIV/AIDS at a recent meeting on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. The Network of African Islamic Faith-based Organisations met in November to discuss issues that included HIV/AIDS and gender-based viol
For the first time in history, the World Health Organisation (WHO) published a report that focused on challenges facing the health of 738 million Africans. The report touched on the health systems of the continent with regards to HIV/AIDS, malaria among other diseases. Not all in the report is bad, as it recognises rea
It has been documented that most Gambian women lack the strength or skills to negotiate safe sex or take their own decisions concerning relationship, leading to a higher HIV/AIDS prevalence. Gambian women are also troubled by their high economic dependency, early and forced marriages. Coercive sex, rape and condoning s
The government of Sierra Leone is faced with the challenges of stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, which is derailing its efforts to supply anti-retroviral drugs to its targeted number of people living with the virus by the end of the year. The Sierra Leonean government wants to supply at least 2,000 of the AIDS population in
A mere mention of the name HIV/AIDS in Senegal is tantamount to a taboo. It is unlike other African societies, where people living with the AIDS virus are going public to share their experiences with people. Rather, AIDS victims in Senegal prefer to bury their story under the carpet and cry in silence instead, mainly b
Some 90 percent of Cape Verdean males between the ages of 15 and 24 engaged in high-risk sexual acts - in other words, unprotected intercourse - in the past year. Some 70 percent of women in the same age range also practiced unsafe sex in the past twelve months. The data comes from the Second Reproductive Health Inquir
South Africa s governmental statistics agency has presented depressing numbers on the population s life expectancy. In only seven years, the death rate for young and middle-aged South African has doubled, in some cases even tripled. Life expectancy at birth declined by 4 to 5 years over the last decade. The growing num
More than 80 of the world s leading AIDS experts have signed a sharp letter to South Africa s President Thabo Mbeki, calling for the immediate removal of Dr [Manto] Tshabalala-Msimang as Minister of Health. The experts claim she promotes quackery at the expense of dying AIDS patients and that her immoral policies are e
A request formulated by a homosexual rights association in Ghana to recognise their existence to guarantee a better access to HIV/AIDS services has started an avalanche of hostile reactions in the country. But the Ghanaian press has also discovered that homosexuality is real in Ghana, not just a Western phenomenon.
Violations of women s rights escalates the rate of HIV infections throughout the continent. Sexual oppression combined with a high biological receptiveness of viral transmission, put women at risk. As a consequence, the violence against women threatens to destroy whole communities. According to Linda Osermen, of the In
Kenya s President Mwai Kibaki in a speech to the nation announced that his government has abolished payments for HIV and AIDS drugs at state hospitals, thus offering free anti-retrovirals to Kenyans. Malaria and tuberculosis drugs had been made free of charge earlier. The UN praises Kenya as one of the countries being
Kenya s President Mwai Kibaki in a speech to the nation announced that his government has abolished payments for HIV and AIDS drugs at state hospitals, thus offering free anti-retrovirals to Kenyans. Malaria and tuberculosis drugs had been made free of charge earlier. The UN praises Kenya as one of the countries being
A new tool by Google reveals how Africans use the Internet. Not being a surprise, sex is one of the most searched words in the Internet, but it may come as an embarrassment to many Muslim countries that their citizens are the world s most frequent digital sex searchers; in particular North Africans. But also in sub-Sah
In a dimly lit karaoke bar in a suburb of Kampala, the capital, Crystal Namanya belts out Madonna s Get into the Groove , following the words as they run across a television screen. Her rendition is a crowd pleaser, attracting applause and shouts of you go, girl! from her fellow revellers. This is no ordinary karaoke e
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