BANGKOK, 28 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - As a UN high-level panel completes worldwide consultations [ http://www.post2015hlp.org/ ] to pick development goals for 2015 and beyond, PlusNews consulted...
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Mozambique’s first HIV vaccine trial heralds new era in local research
MAPUTO, 15 March 2013 (PlusNews) - Mozambique has completed its first HIV vaccine trial and is set to embark on a second, a demonstration of the country’s increased HIV research capacity. This week,...
Uganda government under pressure to boost ARV funding
KAMPALA, 14 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - The Ugandan government's draft 2013/2014 budget allocates US$38.5 million to enrol a further 100,000 people living with HIV on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV)...
Third-line ARVs could widen treatment gap in Zimbabwe
HARARE, 12 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - HIV/AIDS activists in Zimbabwe have welcomed the government's move to address the problem of HIV drug resistance by introducing third-line antiretroviral drug...
HIV/AIDS: Disappointment in HIV prevention trial
JOHANNESBURG, 5 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - A three-year clinical trial involving over 5,000 women in East and Southern Africa has found that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - whether a vaginal gel or an...
Condoms continue to confound Uganda
KAMPALA, 1 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - The condom has played a central role in Uganda's official HIV prevention strategy for over two decades, but the country has yet to get it right, with condom use...
Kenya’s HIV programmes steel themselves for elections
NAIROBI, 26 February 2013 (PlusNews) - When violence broke out following the announcement of Kenya’s poll results in 2007, Henry Mwiterere and his family fled to safety shortly before their house, in...
Cervical cancer a major threat to HIV-positive women
HARARE, 8 February 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - HIV-positive women are living longer, but are now dying of cervical cancer. In Zimbabwe, cervical cancer is now the most common cancer among women, particularly...
Ugandan authorities concerned as HIV self-test kits hit the market
KAMPALA, 6 February 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - The sale of HIV test kits to the public by private chemists in Uganda is causing concern among health officials, who feel that HIV testing should remain in the...
Uganda begins rollout of provider-initiated HIV testing
KAMPALA, 30 January 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - All people who seek treatment in health centres in Uganda will be offered HIV testing and counselling under a new plan to increase access to HIV prevention and...
Ugandan HIV campaign targets "cheaters"
KAMPALA, 23 January 2013 (PlusNews) - A new Ugandan HIV-prevention campaign that frankly addresses sexual infidelity is generating heated debate over the direction the country's HIV strategy should...
Bringing HIV/AIDS out into the open in Liberia
MONROVIA, 22 January 2013 (PlusNews) - Stigma, discrimination and difficulty in reaching health clinics has led over half of new HIV cases in Liberia to go untreated, says the National AIDS Control...
Fewer pregnant women with HIV in Congo
BRAZZAVILLE, 18 January 2013 (PlusNews) - The HIV infection rate has declined among pregnant women in the Republic of Congo from 3.4 percent in 2009 to 2.8 percent in 2012, according to a study by...
Des travaux novateurs ouvrent de nouvelles pistes dans la recherche d’un vaccin anti-VIH
JOHANNESBOURG, 16 janvier 2013 (PlusNews) - Le seul essai clinique de vaccin anti-VIH ayant obtenu un succès modéré a été réalisé il y a trois ans. Encore aujourd’hui toutefois, l’interprétation de...
HIV/AIDS: Groundbreaking vaccine research reveals more clues about HIV
JOHANNESBURG, 15 January 2013 (PlusNews) - The only HIV vaccine trial to achieve moderate success took place four years ago, yet it continues to reveal new information about the virus and renew hopes...
Still struggling with drug shortages
HARARE, 11 January 2013 (PlusNews) - Chronic shortages of generic and antiretroviral drugs, stock-outs, high medication costs, and long distances to clinics are some of the hurdles people face in...
Concerns over HIV/AIDS funding cuts
ADDIS ABABA, 9 January 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - Major projected cuts in US government funding for Ethiopia's health sector could greatly undermine the progress the country has made in the fight against HIV,...
HIV/AIDS: Uganda still behind on ARV target
KAMPALA, 7 January 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - Uganda continues to fall short of achieving its goal of ensuring that 80 percent of people living with HIV receive antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) by 2015, according...
Milka*, "You have to let go hiding your HIV status to save your child"
NDHIWA, 2 January 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - Milka*, a 25-year-old HIV-positive mother-of-three, knew through prenatal visits to her local clinic in Ndhiwa District, western Kenya, that feeding her newborn...
HIV/AIDS: Low prevalence, high stigma in Bangladesh
DHAKA, 31 December 2012 (PlusNews) - Even though HIV prevalence in Bangladesh is as low as 0.1 percent of the 160 million population, experts fear that widespread discrimination towards people who...