7 May 2008
Ukraine’s HIV/AIDS epidemic is a threat to Europe, according to UNAIDS, while international experts said the Ukrainian government is failing to curb the disease’s growth rate, which is the highest in Europe.
About 1.63 percent of Ukrainians, or about 756,300 citizens, were estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS in 2007, up from 1.46 percent of the population in 2005, or 685,600 citizens, accordin...
7 May 2008
BUJUMBURA - Fabien Hamisi can neither hear nor speak, but don't call him dumb just because he speaks a language not understood by everybody.
Hamisi is the executive director of Burundi's National Association for the Deaf, which aims to facilitate communication for the hearing-impaired by teaching them sign language.
Burundi's HIV/AIDS policy has no special provision for HIV education for the...
6 May 2008
KABUL - Millions of condoms will be distributed across Afghanistan in 2008 in a new drive to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, reduce maternal mortality and improve family planning, aid agencies and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said.
Millions of condoms have been purchased and imported into Afghanistan by international aid organisations and will be offered either free or at an affo...
6 May 2008
JOHANNESBURG - HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines for South Africa's public health sector are out of sync not only with those of many other countries in the region, but also with the latest research on how to most effectively treat people living with HIV.
Various studies indicating that patients who start antiretroviral therapy (ART) earlier respond better to treatment and are less likely to develop...
6 May 2008
Appropriate treatment can all but eradicate the risk that a pregnant woman with HIV will pass the virus to her child, research shows.
Data on 5,151 HIV pregnancies in the UK and Ireland between 2000 and 2006 found an infant infection rate of just 1.2% where preventative steps were taken.
In the mid-1990s, before effective drug therapy became available, the infant infection rate was over 20...
5 May 2008
MOSCOW — Russia is "not ready" to adopt measures that could prevent thousands of people from getting infected with the virus that causes AIDS, the country's chief public health officer said Monday.
Gennady Onishchenko said regulations are not strong enough to allow measures such as methadone replacement therapy for heroin addicts to work properly.
The World Health Organization, the United N...
1 May 2008
KIREKA - Melia Alanyo, 46, left northern Uganda for the capital city, Kampala, in the late 1980s when the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) started abducting, attacking and killing people in her village.
She has spent the last 20 years in Kireka, a low-income suburb on the city's outskirts, collecting and breaking rocks into chips at a local quarry. For every 20-litre jerry can she fills, she...
28 Apr 2008
BOUAKE - War has left its mark on Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire's second largest town and the stronghold of the New Forces rebels, about 300km north of the port city of Abidjan. Many public buildings are empty and dilapidated, roads are in disrepair and carry few vehicles.
The university hospital centre (CHU) in Bouake did not escape attack. Some
buildings still bear scars from the conflict, which tor...
28 Apr 2008
HANOI - Vietnam has launched a methadone drug substitution programme to help injecting heroin users beat the addiction and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, the United Nations said Monday.
Two new methadone clinics in the northern port city of Haiphong, a heroin and AIDS hotspot, will treat 700 users with the substitute drug from now until December, said the United Nations mission in a statement.
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27 Apr 2008
The UN Global Fund to Fight HIV and AIDS, TB and Malaria in Zimbabwe has stepped up operations to increase the number of HIV and AIDS positive people on its Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) programme.
In an interview with the Sunday News yesterday, the national coordinator of Global Fund, Mrs Rosemary Kona said the continuous availing of funds by the Global Aids Fund has seen 14 000 patients acces...
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