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22 May 2012

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Uganda

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Rising ARV resistance threatens HIV fight

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KAMPALA, 22 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - The prevalence of drug-resistant HIV strains in Uganda has risen from 8.6 percent to 12 percent in the last five years, one of the highest rates in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a recent study.

The PharmAccess African Studies to Evaluate Resistance (PASER) monitoring cohort study report for 2008-2012 found that the prevalence of transmitted drug resistance among people who have never taken life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) medication was substantially higher in Uganda.

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21 May 2012

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Madagascar

Low HIV prevalence has its own challenges

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ANTANANARIVO, 21 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Madagascar has a low level of HIV prevalence, and managing its AIDS programme should present no major difficulties. But the apparent advantage of a low infection rate, combined with the ongoing political crisis, has brought its own challenges.

Madagascar, and the neighbouring islands states of Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles, are anomalies in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Prevalence is very low - around 0.37 percent, or 24,000 confirmed cases - and restricted to a few sections of the population.

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15 May 2012

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Nepal

HIV widows on the edge

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RAKAM, 15 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Widows living with HIV in Nepal's remote hill districts in some of the country's poorest and vulnerable communities face a particularly bleak future.

"My husband died four years ago. We had to sell our cattle and farm to pay his medical bills," 32-year-old Sumi Karki* told IRIN in the tiny village of Rakam in Dailekh District, about 700km northwest of the capital, Kathmandu.

Infected by her husband, a former labour migrant to India, she has no idea how she will care for her three children in the future, much less pay for their schooling.

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14 May 2012

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World

VIH/SIDA : Le Fonds mondial prévoit de disposer de 1,6 milliard de dollars supplémentaires

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JOHANNESBOURG, 14 mai 2012 (PlusNews) - Le Fonds mondial de lutte contre le sida, la tuberculose et le paludisme a annoncé qu’il devrait disposer de 1,6 milliard de dollars supplémentaires à investir, sur une période allant de 2012 à 2014, dans des projets qui permettront de sauver des vies.

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09 May 2012

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Rwanda

Substantial HIV funding has not hurt other patient care

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NAIROBI, 8 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - The large amount of donor funding that has gone into Rwanda's fight against HIV has not affected efforts to prevent and treat unrelated diseases, such as malaria and measles, and may in fact have improved overall healthcare, a six-year study has found.

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08 May 2012

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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)

Reducing the HIV risk of girls living on the street

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KINSHASA, 8 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Sarah, 16, started sleeping on the streets of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic republic of Congo (DRC), when she was only eight years old. She doesn't remember how she came to live on the streets, but thinks it was soon after her mother died.

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03 May 2012

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Uganda

Combining safe riding on a motorcycle taxi with safe sex

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KAMPALA, 3 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - It's Saturday night and Jaffari Musoke*, who rides a 'boda boda' - motorcycle taxi - arrives at his regular stage, or departure point, near several hotels in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. He has an easy camaraderie with the sex workers who hang around the hotels, taking many of them home after a night's work. Sometimes he mixes business with pleasure.

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03 May 2012

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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)

HIV effort needs government, donor commitment to succeed

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KINSHASA, 4 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Many national hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not accepting new HIV-positive patients for antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. The only way to get onto a treatment list is to wait until a space opens up due to a death or drop-out, or seek the limited treatment options available outside the government's programmes, but few people can afford the drugs.

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02 May 2012

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World

HIV/AIDS: New book tracks the epidemic to its origins

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MBABANE, 2 May 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - We've all heard the myths and hypotheses about the origins of the epidemic caused by the HI virus, but a new book, "Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It", sheds more light on where it all began. It is a fascinating account of the medical detective work that traced the disease to Cameroon a century ago.

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30 Apr 2012

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Uganda

Inadequate healthcare and rising HIV prevalence in Karamoja

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MOROTO, 30 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - The nomadic Karimojong ethnic group, once regarded as a low-risk HIV population because regional instability in northeastern Uganda and strong adherence to their culture kept them relatively isolated, have not been a priority on the country's HIV agenda, but recent statistics show prevalence among this community is now 5.8 percent, up from 3.5 percent five years ago.

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27 Apr 2012

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Kenya

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Regional HIV Bill passed without criminalization clause

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NAIROBI, 27 April 2012 (PlusNews) - East Africa's Legislative Assembly has passed a regional HIV/AIDS Bill that seeks to protect the rights of people living with HIV and harmonize regional legislation and policy on the prevention and treatment of HIV.

Activists have welcomed the passing of the Bill, which, unlike some of the laws in the region's individual member states, does not criminalize the deliberate transmission of HIV.

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26 Apr 2012

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Swaziland

Nurses demand protection from TB infection

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MBABANE, 26 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Hospitals are not protecting their workers from tuberculosis (TB) infection, say nurses in Swaziland, who recently staged a rare public demonstration to draw attention to how vulnerable they are to this highly infectious disease.

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25 Apr 2012

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Kenya

High court ruling on anti-counterfeit law upholds right to health

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NAIROBI, 25 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Kenyan HIV activists say a ruling by the High Court that the definition of "anti-counterfeit" in the 2008 Anti-Counterfeit Act is too broad will save millions of lives and protect the right to life of citizens.

The case filed by three people living with HIV in July 2009 argued that sections 2, 32 and 34 of the Act contained ambiguities, which, if misinterpreted or abused, would be detrimental to Kenyans' access to essential generic medicines.

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24 Apr 2012

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Kenya

Protest over $500 million in unspent PEPFAR funding

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NAIROBI/KISUMU, 25 April 2012 (PlusNews) - More than 400 Kenyan AIDS activists have demonstrated in the capital, Nairobi, demanding that the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief release some US$500 million for HIV programmes in Kenya that is stuck in the pipeline.

The US government recently revealed that close to $1.5 billion has been in the global PEPFAR pipeline for more than 18 months. The allocation to Kenya is the largest.

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24 Apr 2012

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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)

End of mother-to-child HIV transmission still a long way off

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KINSHASA, 24 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Poorly integrated maternal health services, a lack of human resources and a serious shortage of money for treatment mean the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is unlikely to meet the global plan of eliminating [ http://www.plusnews.org/Report/91250/HIV-AIDS-Looking-forward-to-an-AIDS... ] mother-to-child transmission by 2015.

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18 Apr 2012

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Papua New Guinea

Violence and belief in magic raise risk of HIV for women

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PORT MORESBY, 18 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - High levels of sexual violence and a cultural belief in witchcraft are putting an increasing number of women at risk of HIV in Papua New Guinea (PNG), health experts say.

According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), PNG accounts for most of the 30,000 reported cases of people living with HIV in the Pacific region, around 59 percent of which are women.

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18 Apr 2012

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World

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HIV/AIDS: A Rogues' Gallery

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JOHANNESBURG, 15 April 2012 (PlusNews) - Grantees of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria who allegedly committed fraud or misused funds unwittingly did a lot of damage to the Fund – and, many say, global health - as donors withdrew and the beleaguered organization faced a "crisis of confidence" in recent years. But the Fund has responded and is undergoing an extensive restructuring process. IRIN/PlusNews takes a look at some of the alleged fraudsters and the progress of the investigations.

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17 Apr 2012

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Nepal

Treatment illiteracy puts HIV benchmarks in peril

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KATHMANDU, 17 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Poor understanding of antiretroviral therapy (ART) amongst health officials, clinicians and patients in Nepal could undermine gains in the country's HIV/AIDS prevention efforts and threaten future progress in lowering the number of new infections.

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11 Apr 2012

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Uganda

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Cotrimoxazole discontinuation linked to increased malaria

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NAIROBI, 11 April 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Abruptly discontinuing cotrimoxazole - an antibiotic used to prevent opportunistic infections in HIV-positive people - can lead to a higher incidence of malaria and diarrhoea compared with patients who keep on taking the drug, a new study has found.

The research was conducted by the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) in eastern Uganda, where malaria is endemic, and published in March 2012 by the Oxford Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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06 Apr 2012

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Kenya

Better training needed for counsellors of HIV-discordant couples

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NAKURU/NAIROBI, 5 April 2012 (PlusNews) - The Kenyan government has issued guidelines on counselling for HIV-discordant couples, but many counsellors in smaller, rural health centres remain untrained.

"HIV infection among discordant couples will increase without adequate counselling because... it is only through counselling that they learn to live with each other, and use preventive measures such as condoms consistently," said Churchill Alumasa, the coordinator at the local NGO, Discordant Couples of Kenya (DISCOK).

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Uganda

and 5 others

Rising ARV resistance threatens HIV fight

Madagascar

Low HIV prevalence has its own challenges

Nepal

HIV widows on the edge

World

VIH/SIDA : Le Fonds mondial prévoit de disposer de 1,6 milliard de dollars supplémentaires

Rwanda

Substantial HIV funding has not hurt other patient care

Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)

Reducing the HIV risk of girls living on the street

Uganda

Combining safe riding on a motorcycle taxi with safe sex

Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)

HIV effort needs government, donor commitment to succeed

World

HIV/AIDS: New book tracks the epidemic to its origins

Uganda

Inadequate healthcare and rising HIV prevalence in Karamoja

Kenya

and 4 others

Regional HIV Bill passed without criminalization clause

Swaziland

Nurses demand protection from TB infection

Kenya

High court ruling on anti-counterfeit law upholds right to health

Kenya

Protest over $500 million in unspent PEPFAR funding

Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)

End of mother-to-child HIV transmission still a long way off

Papua New Guinea

Violence and belief in magic raise risk of HIV for women

World

and 4 others

HIV/AIDS: A Rogues' Gallery

Nepal

Treatment illiteracy puts HIV benchmarks in peril

Uganda

and 1 other

Cotrimoxazole discontinuation linked to increased malaria

Kenya

Better training needed for counsellors of HIV-discordant couples

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Uganda

and 5 others

Rising ARV resistance threatens HIV fight

Kenya

and 4 others

Regional HIV Bill passed without criminalization clause

World

and 4 others

HIV/AIDS: A Rogues' Gallery

Uganda

and 1 other

Cotrimoxazole discontinuation linked to increased malaria