It’s estimated that well over 25 percent of the adult population in Zimbabwe is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Yet, the average Zimbabwean does not have access to the latest HIV fighting drugs or the money to buy them. VOA’s Joe De Capua tells us about one woman who’s helping others in her country fight the disease holistically.
Health authorities in Zambia say cases of tuberculosis have grown fourfold in the past two decades. And they say most of those who have TB are also infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
In South Africa Monday (3/25), the legal battle over drug treatment for HIV-positive pregnant women took another turn. For the third time, a South African court ordered the government to distribute Nevirapine, a drug that can prevent mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus.
Leading South African researchers are calling on their government to take immediate action to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Writing in the British medical journal, The Lancet, they say it is the ethical and moral thing to do.
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