The Ugandan government has formed an alliance with the media to focus on prevention programmes, in re-shaping its strategy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) director general, Kihumuro Apuuli, said the recent surge in the HIV statistics has forced the government to focus on prevention rathe
Over 50 Ugandan and international organisations are warning government that the repressive HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, soon to be voted on in the Kampala parliament, could destroy Uganda s earlier successes in fighting back the pandemic. The controversial bill would, if approved, criminalise the wilful tr
A new comparative report has found persistent high levels of sexual risk-taking, low levels of condom use, and inadequate coverage of voluntary counseling and testing in sub-Saharan Africa. The report highlights large differentials between women and men and wide variations among countries in many attitudes and behavior
Music stars at this weekend s MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) in Nairobi, Kenya , can have a significant impact in educating young people about HIV and changing their behaviour, a top UNAIDS official said today. The music stars at MTV Africa Music Awards can help fast-track awareness about HIV into the hearts and minds
Violence against women, the transition from war to peace and the criminalisation of drug use and homosexuality are among the political, economic and social factors driving the HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to a United Nations-backed report released yesterday. These findings underscore the importance of aligning efforts
Efforts to curb HIV transmission from mothers to their children in Africa have received a boost, from a new partnership between the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) and a UN-backed initiative seeking to help villages on the continent lift themselves out of poverty. Under an agreement signed yes
Male circumcision is a cost-effective means to prevent the spread of HIV, according to a new United Nations-backed report, which found that one HIV infection could be averted for every five to 15 procedures performed on heterosexual men. Using a 10-year time horizon, the study put the cost of averting one HIV infection
Health experts and rights activists have pleaded with Kenyan doctors and nurses to halt female genital mutilation in their clinics, saying performing the cut was making it more acceptable in communities. The officials said although Kenya outlawed FGM in girls under 18 in 2001, the harmful practice is still carried out
More than 10, 000 Nigerian girls held captive as sex slaves in Morocco and Libya are to be repatriated, the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora has revealed in a statement. The girls reportedly from Edo State, the southern part of the country, aged between 13 and 17, had been held captive by sex slave trader
The Global Health Advocates have today made a call for the Pan-African voices to speak up against the US president s cut on the global health contribution. In a press conference held today in Nairobi, global health advocates, including Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) executive director Dr Paul Zeitz, called for a pan-Africa
HIV and AIDS treatment and rollout programmes are are already in danger across the continent and other parts of the world due the global fiancial crisis. A new UN study has found that the global financial crisis is impacting the ability of people with HIV to obtain life-saving drugs, a serious concern given that some t
The Lesotho government will roll out the social cash grants to poor households caring for orphans and other vulnerable children, as well as child headed households later this month, the Director of Social Welfare Limakatso Chisepo has announced. The launch of the first grant will be given on 22 April in Mathula Communi
Line beneficiaries of the (RED) money in Lesotho , Swaziland , Rwanda and Ghana are to get more funding from a new fundraising partnership announced yesterday between the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Gap Inc.
afrol News, 6 February - Human Rights Watch has urged the new Kenyan National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan to address rights of children to access, treatment and care of HIV. Human Rights Watch in December last year accused the Kenyan government of neglecting children in the roll out of life saving drugs, saying half of all
afrol News, 16 January - The United Nations has condemned the sentencing of nine gay activists in Senegal , saying it has no place in the response to the AIDS epidemic. The Senegalese court jailed nine men working to provide condoms and HIV treatment in Senegal to 8 years imprisonment for indecent conduct and unnatural
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