AIDS
Nov 29 2010, Tiaan

As World AIDS Day approaches, activists and service providers in the non-governmental health sector have warned government that it will never turn the tide of AIDS if high risk groups such as men who have sex with other men are not brought into focus in..

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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Pope has been rightly condemned for his previous pronouncement on AIDS. Visiting AIDS-ravages sub-Saharan Africa Pope Benedict told vulnerably ignorant, and I mean...
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Sam, Vatican City
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI sought to “kick-start a debate” when he said some condom use may be justified, Vatican insiders say, raising hopes...
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Duncan Mikae, Bungoma
No corner of the world has never heard of the deadly scourge known as HIV/AIDS, Shockingly new HIV/AIDS infections continue to rise steadily among the youth. Youths...
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Michael Davison, Raanana
Here’s another Israeli achievement to make the “anti-Zionist” crowd grind their teeth. After the western world has played around with AIDS research for three...
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Susan, Berlin
A singer from the German girl band No Angels has admitted to having unprotected sex with several partners without warning them that she was HIV-positive. Nadja...
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View Point, Shimla
The UK government through DFID is to give Uganda 45 million condoms to avert 75,000 abortions and 250,000 unwanted pregnancies. Uganda has one of the highest maternal...
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CJ, San Francisco
High school students and college-age adults have been complaining to District officials that the free condoms the city has been offering are not of good enough quality...
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Anthony, Kampala
Uganda’s community of prostitutes has long been considered a weak link in the fight against Aids. Popular opinion holds that most of them are infected with HIV—that...
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Alex, Portland
State-run Cuban media outlets announced Tuesday the distribution on the island of a “natural” medicine that can serve to fight AIDS, cancer, malaria, diabetes,...
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Philip, Nairobi
I had a flashback the other day when I was looking at photographs from Haiti of 15-year-old Fabianne Geismar, shot dead in the head after stealing wall hangings from a...
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The number of AIDS cases in the North African Country has reached 3198 according to a statement said by the Health Ministry. The infection rate is less than 1% noting...
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Sun, Shenzhen
China’s first government-backed gay bar has finally opened, very discreetly, after the original scheduled launch was delayed for almost three weeks due to intense...
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Richard, Wellington
A 35-year-old HIV-positive man in New Zealand injected his blood into his wife while she was sleeping, thereby infecting her with the virus, court documents have...
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Michael, Dublin
The number of new cases of HIV in Northern Ireland rose by more than 50% in 2008, compared to the previous year. Latest figures from the Communicable Disease...
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Mhamad, Beirut
Four years ago, at 16, Rana’s husband forced her into prostitution. Despite the risks of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Rana, like many local sex workers -...
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Freddy, Nairobi
Mfangano Island on Lake Victoria, two hours by motorboat from mainland Kenya, is a popular destination spot for honeymooners on safari: a verdant fishing outpost...
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Hector, Brasilia
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight...
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Kunal, Nairobi
Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the...
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Riedewaan, Pretoria
There is a new man in South Africa,” proclaims a new ad splashed across South African media, aiming to transform ideas about sexuality and to enlist the...
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Stephan, Pretoria
Diarrhea kills 1.5 million young children a year in developing countries — more than AIDS, malaria and measles combined — but only 4 in 10 of those who need the...
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Brandon, Rochester
Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her...
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Eko, Jakarta
The first day of school was a special one last month for the 15 children from the Mai Hoa orphanage here. They are infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, and...
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View Point, Shimla
South Africa’s health ministry has proposed a plan to make HIV test compulsory. The Ministry believes that the system would be a ‘major onslaught’ in the...
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Tim, Bangkok
For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent...
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Rose Ng'ang'a, Nairobi
We are fond of brushing off human interest stories and focus most of our discussions on political oriented debates that we fast catch up with any political gossip that...
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Tiaan, Pretoria
A controversial plan to make HIV testing compulsory in South Africa has been criticised by campaigners who argue it would breach patients’ human...
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View Point, Shimla
AIDS is a widespread disease in Africa and has devoured millions. All the countries across Africa – and across the globe as well – are struggling to control the...
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Wyclif, Kampala
As African countries still struggle to control the deadly AIDS epidemic, they are also grappling with debates over what rights and duties to give those living with the...
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Markus, Berlin
A tasteless advertisement featuring Adolf Hitler having sex has been condemned by HIV charities. The steamy advert, filmed by a German charity, features the couple...
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Erick, Los Angeles
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent...
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Brandon, Rochester
Any attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a good thing, right?...
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Korey, Houston
AIDS is spreading faster among Canada’s aboriginal people than in the general population, and a strong cultural stigma and links to rising drug use make the...
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Ademola, Abuja
Under the dusty sun, the fathers of the bride and groom agreed to the marriage and this ancient Muslim tradition proceeded as it has for hundreds of years. But unknown...
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Brandon, Rochester
University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of “molecular condom” to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex,...
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John, Kampala
French and english scientists have discovered of a strain of HIV, they believe was passed on by gorillas to humans. The researchers who believe that the rare HIV...
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Farai, Harare
A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human...
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Earnest, Pretoria
South Africa launched a high-profile trial of an AIDS vaccine created by its own researchers Monday, a proud moment in a nation where government denial, neglect and...
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Sreeja, Mumbai
All the right thinking people in this world should raise their voice in support of the around 1.4 million people living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya in their fight...
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veena, delhi
There is a myth which is doing rounds since the time HIV appeared in the modern world scenario. It must have been the outcome of some depraved thinking, if one has HIV+...
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Dr. Grace Emmanuel, left, explains medication procedure to Tanko Habibu, who is living with the AIDS virus, at an AIDS clinic in Bauchi, Nigeria, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Bauchi State, in Nigeria’s heavily Muslim north, has recently begun playing Cupid..