NYALA, 13 October 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - There are nine voluntary counselling and testing centres in the Sudanese state of South Darfur, but rather than risk being recognized at one of them, many people...
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SUDAN: Positive networks fight HIV in the south
JUBA, 4 February 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Networks of people living with HIV in southern Sudan are trying to overcome deficiencies in the limping health system and broken infrastructure by spreading...
SUDAN: Universal access still a long way off in the south
JUBA, 3 February 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Southern Sudan's poor infrastructure, largely illiterate population and dearth of health facilities and workers mean that despite five years of peace, HIV...
SUDAN: Battling HIV in a post-conflict army
JUBA, 29 January 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - The evidence of five years of peace is everywhere in Juba, regional capital of Southern Sudan - in the brisk trade in the city's markets, its packed bars and...
SUDAN: Young girls risk sexual exploitation on Juba's streets
JUBA, 28 January 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - In a large market in Juba, the regional capital of Southern Sudan, young women spend long afternoons lounging on beds in sweltering iron sheet rooms, waiting for...
Sudan: Health workers report rise in HIV
YAMBIO, 17 June 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - Healthcare workers in Yambio, capital of Sudan's Western Equatoria State, have warned that the number of HIV-positive people receiving treatment has risen, and they...
Sudan: Alice Tabu, "At times we wear polythene bags in place of gloves to deliver babies"
LUI, 20 February 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - Southern Sudan's healthcare system is almost non-existent in many areas after a 21-year war with the north, and health workers are regularly forced to work with...
Sudan: People with HIV demand safe drinking water
JUBA, 12 May 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - For years, Lole Laila Lole had to drink, cook with, and bathe in the dirty, contaminated water he fetched from the River Nile. "There was no other way," he told...
Sudan: Too scared to tell - sexual violence in Darfur
EL FASHER, DARFUR, 12 February 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - People working in the vast humanitarian operation in Sudan's western region of Darfur are more than willing to talk about rebel attacks and the need...
Sudan: Stigma forces PLWHA to hide status
KASSALA, 18 January 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Fadia Awad offers us sweets, a traditional Sudanese gesture of hospitality, and then asks if we are going to refuse them, as all her neighbours do. She belongs...
Sudan: Awareness-raising takes a softly-softly approach
KASSALA, 9 January 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - In a market square just outside the town of Kassala, near the border with Eritrea in eastern Sudan, every plastic chair is filled and there is standing room only...
Sudan: Prevention efforts target truckers and tea-sellers
PORT SUDAN, 8 January 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - It takes 36 hours to drive a heavily laden truck from Port Sudan, a major transportation hub on Sudan's eastern Red Sea coast, to the capital city of Khartoum...
Sudan: Fadia Awad: "Three years ago, this house was full of women...they don't come anymore"
KASSALA, 7 January 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Fadia Awad lives with her son, Hamid, 8, in a small settlement outside Kassala in eastern Sudan. She belongs to the Rashaida tribe, a traditionally nomadic people...
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In the wake of the LRA: HIV in Uganda and Sudan
(excerpt) UGANDA: Lack of rural health services keeps HIV-positive IDPs in camps After attacks by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda tailed off last year, the government said it...
Sudan: New road map to chart course against AIDS in the south
JUBA, 12 April 2007 (PLUSNEWS) - Efforts to control the spread of HIV in southern Sudan have been given a shot in the arm by a US $28.5 million grant from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria and...
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Kenya: Education key to ARV adherence among refugees
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KAKUMA, 11 September (PLUSNEWS) - Anti-AIDS drugs are available to a small group of HIV-positive patients in northern...
Sudan: Preventing HIV/AIDS in the south - a cash-strapped mission
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JUBA, 16 August (PLUSNEWS) - In southern Sudan, slowly recovering from a 21-year civil conflict, the fight against HIV/AIDS...
Sudan: War-scarred south ill-equipped to deal with HIV/AIDS
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] Bor, 10 April (PLUSNEWS) - Southern Sudan, slowly emerging from a 21-year civil war that left it bereft of even the most...
Sudan: Returning refugees spark fear of HIV/AIDS spread in unprepared south
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] Bor, 7 April (PLUSNEWS) - In a crumbling hospital building, pock-marked by bullet holes, Dr Agot Alier Leek admits that he...
Sudan: PlusNews Web Special on HIV/AIDS in Southern Sudan
JOHANNESBURG, 22 October (PLUSNEWS) - With real progress in peace talks [http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=37175] offering hope of an end to almost 20 years of conflict in Sudan, an...