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Myths, Secrets and Inequality Surround Women’s Sex Lives

Myths, Secrets and Inequality Surround Women’s Sex Lives

Mambera Hellem tells her friends and neighbours about all forms of contraception, yet despite their high HIV risk she knows many of the women she speaks to will not use condoms. When I ask Mambera and her friend Kyolaba Amina if it is a woman or a man who decides to wear a condom, Kyolaba […]

Stigma ‘Killing’ South Africans Living With HIV: They don’t feel welcome in government clinics

Stigma ‘Killing’ South Africans Living With HIV: They don’t feel welcome in government clinics

In South Africa, sex workers speak of nurses that laughed at them, dismissed or shamed them for coming to a health clinic Tania has to shout to be heard over music blasting out of a brothel in downtown Durban, South Africa, where dozens of sex workers slouch in chairs under the red glow of the […]

Vaginal Ring A Game-Changer in HIV Protection?

Vaginal Ring A Game-Changer in HIV Protection?

I awoke on the morning 18th July 2016 excited to attend my first International AIDS Conference. While this was the 21st International AIDS Conference, I had no idea what to expect. Neither had I ever heard of microbicides. That is until I met Anna Miti on the shuttle from the airport to conference. She invited […]

Bot for Messenger Launched at the International Aids Conference 2016

Bot for Messenger Launched at the International Aids Conference 2016

Through the advent of Messenger and bots, messaging platforms have rapidly increased their impact in reaching users with life-changing content. Leading this technological evolution in low and middle income countries, the Praekelt Foundation will launch a new chatbot for Messenger integrated into the South African Nation Department of Health’s MomConnect, at the 21st International AIDS […]

WHO Hails Algeria’s Experience in Combatting Aids, Tuberculosis, Malaria

WHO Hails Algeria’s Experience in Combatting Aids, Tuberculosis, Malaria

World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Algiers, Bah Keita, praised Algeria’s experience in getting under control the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), tuberculosis and malaria, and its willingness to help neighbouring countries to combat such diseases. Keita made the statement at a meeting of the Regional Commission for Certification of Polio Eradication in Africa, being held […]

African Youth Leaders Push for More Progressive Action to End HIV/Aids

African Youth Leaders Push for More Progressive Action to End HIV/Aids

Young people are disproportionately affected by HIV, yet their concerns about sexual education, and discrimination of key populations were ignored at the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on ending AIDS. Although the overall number of AIDS-related deaths is down 35 percent since 2005, estimates suggest that AIDS-related deaths among adolescents are actually rising. In […]

Botswana gets GSK’s modern HIV drug in largest ever Africa tender

Botswana gets GSK’s modern HIV drug in largest ever Africa tender

An HIV drug first approved less than three years ago is to be rolled out in Botswana as a core medicine for newly diagnosed patients, following the largest ever tender secured by GlaxoSmithKline’s HIV business in Africa. ViiV Healthcare, which is majority-owned by GSK, said on Friday it was the first time that Tivicay, or […]

56 Percent of Sex Workers Have HIV in Zimbabwe

Research by the National Aids Council indicates that although the national HIV and Aids prevalence has been declining in the past two years, prevalence is four times high in other community groups like commercial sex workers. NAC monitoring and evaluation director Mr Amon Mpofu told parliamentarians on a countrywide tour and capacity building programme on […]

Uganda Farmers Are Sharing Arvs With Their Pigs

Uganda Farmers Are Sharing  Arvs With Their Pigs

The pork you are enjoying for breakfast, lunch or dinner could take you to an early grave. Yes! The same life-prolonging drugs that are prescribed to treat HIV/Aids patients are now being given to pigs that supply the pork we eat every day. Farmers say they have to feed ARVs to pigs to keep them […]

Door-to-Door HIV Testing in Zimbabwe

Door-to-Door HIV Testing in Zimbabwe

THE Biomedical Research and Training Institute says it has tested nearly half of the 30 000 people it targeted for its ground-breaking door-to-door HIV testing. The HIV survey started in October last year. Addressing stakeholders attending the Matabeleland South provincial launch of the Zimbabwe Population based HIV Impact Assessment (Zimphia) in Gwanda last week, Dr […]

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