HIV News

Cape Town, Mar 08, 2010 (Inter Press Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Decreasing or levelling HIV funding will destabilise developing countries' health systems, a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned. They demand that governments worldwide own up to their promise of achieving universal access to HIV treatment.The Treatment...

Johannesburg, Mar 08, 2010 (Inter Press Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus.The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria says...

Johannesburg, Mar 08, 2010 (PlusNews/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Achieving targets to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and halve tuberculosis rates hang in the balance as donor commitments to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Fund come up for review.For the past seven years, the...

Johannesburg, Mar 08, 2010 (Business Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- TEN years ago I was in Durban to attend the International AIDS Conference. Many things about that conference I will never forget, but three moments in particular I remember vividly.When Nkosi Johnson spoke at the opening ceremony, I...

Mar 08, 2010 (International Aids Society/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- On International Women's Day, IAS-Convened Panel Seeks Significant New Focus on Women and Children,Who Make up the Majority of People Living with HIV WorldwideAs the HIV pandemic continues to exact an increasing toll on women and children, the...

Mar 08, 2010 (The Citizen/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The ending of World Bank support in December to the Great lakes Initiative on Aids (GLIA) poses a constraint in scaling up and rolling out the project throughout the region, the Vice president Ali Mohamed Shein has said.He thus...

Kampala, Mar 08, 2010 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The health ministry has called on the Government to increase funding for the training and improvement of working conditions for midwives.This, officials argue, will reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, and maternal and infant mortality rates.Dr. Irene Akena, an...

Kigali, Mar 08, 2010 (The New Times/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Executive Secretary of the National Centre for the fight against HIV (CNLS), revealed that the distribution of condoms around the country has increased by 54.8 percent in the last three months.Dr. Anita Asiimwe, made the revelation...

JOHANNESBURG -- The United Nations' AIDS agency chief is warning that cuts in donor funding could cause an HIV "nightmare."Michel Sidibe says that cuts in donations will decrease the availability of free or subsidized life-saving drugs to African patients.An estimated 94 percent of patients on anti-retroviral treatment in Africa count...

MANILA, Philippines -- On Valentine's Day, Philippine government health workers hit the streets of Manila to hand out roses and condoms to passers-by.The message was clear in a country with a relatively small but rapidly growing HIV-positive population: Avoid unprotected sex.It didn't get far. Within days, leaders of the powerful...