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Malawi: Ambitious Plans to Prolong Lives
AllAfrica | HIV & STD 20 03 2010
Portuguese-speaking countries join forces with UN to fight HIV
AIDSPortal | News 20 03 2010
Ghana: Isodec Tracks Government HIV/Aids Resources
AIDSPortal | News 20 03 2010
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AllAfrica | HIV & STD
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
Malawi: Ambitious Plans to Prolong Lives
20 03 2010
Malawi's government has set itself a major challenge this year, announcing plans to more than double the number of people receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to half a million by the end of 2010.
Angola: Health Minister Says War Hindered HIV/Aids Spread in Nation
20 03 2010
The Angolan Health minister José Van-Dúnem said on Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal, that the 2.1 HIV/AIDS positive prevalence rate in Angola was due to the war that prevented the movement of people from the African countries with high rate of HIV incidence.
Angola: Authorities Recorded Over 250,000 HIV Positive Cases in 2009
19 03 2010
The Angolan health authorities registered in the year 2009 that at least 254,471 citizens are HIV/Aids positive, 149.386 of whom are women.
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Kaisernetwork | HIV/AIDS
Online resource for timely and in-depth coverage of health policy news, debates and discussions.
Legislation Needed To Boost HIV/AIDS Efforts in Solomon Islands, Health Official Says
09 03 2010
Isaac Muliloa -- national coordinator of the HIV and sexually transmitted infections unit at the Solomon Islands'
Ministry of Health
-- recently said that a lack of national HIV/AIDS laws is hindering efforts to address the disease, the
Solomon Times
reports. Recent
World Health Organization
estimates
said that the number of HIV cases in the Solomon Islands could reach 350 by 2010.
Muliloa said that legislation is needed to address continued discrimination against HIV-positive employees in the workplace. He added that the HIV/AIDS and STI unit is relatively new in the health ministry, as is the Solomon Islands' National AIDS Council. According to Muliloa, officials are continuing to work toward implementing policies. The
Times
reports that the Solomon Islands does not have laws in place criminalizing the intentional transmission of HIV (
Solomon Times
, 5/27).
HIV Prevention Efforts in Five African Countries Not Reaching At-Risk Groups, Report Says
09 03 2010
National HIV prevention strategies in at least five African countries are not reaching the groups most at risk of infection, according to a report from
UNAIDS
and the
World Bank
conducted in conjunction with the national HIV/AIDS authorities of Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Uganda,
IRIN/PlusNews
reports. The study was conducted between 2007 and 2008 to determine how and where most HIV cases were occurring in each country. It also aimed to examine whether prevention programs and spending aligned with those findings.
According to the report, most prevention initiatives are not based on evidence of the behaviors that spread HIV in the five surveyed countries. For example, most new infections in Lesotho occur because of concurrent sexual partnerships, both before and after marriage. However, the country does not have any prevention strategies aimed at concurrent partnerships, or couples who are married or in long-term relationships.
In addition, the report found that in Mozambique, an estimated 19% of new HIV infections were spread through commercial sex work, 3% from injection drug use and 5% among men who have sex with men. According to the report, few programs in the country target sex workers, while none are tailored to IDUs or MSM.
According to the report, spending on HIV prevention often is low in the surveyed countries. Lesotho spends 13% of its national HIV/AIDS budget on prevention, while Uganda spends 34%. Director of the World Bank's Global HIV/AIDS Unit Debrework Zewdie said that the economic downturn makes it important to maximize the impact of HIV prevention investments. "These syntheses use the growing amounts of data and information available to better understand each country's epidemic and response and identify how prevention might be more effective," she said.
The report includes recommendations on how the surveyed countries can better implement evidence-based prevention efforts. It said that Lesotho should revise its prevention messages to address multiple concurrent partnerships and integrate the subject into future initiatives. In addition, Mozambique should focus condom promotion on groups such as sex workers, the report said. According to
IRIN/PlusNews
, the five-country program aims to enhance capacity to ensure that the countries can conduct similar studies in the future (
IRIN/PlusNews
, 5/27).
The report is available
online
.
Researchers Plan To Target Immune Cells Responsible for Eluding Antiretroviral Treatment
09 03 2010
Certain human immune cells known as macrophages are composed of hybrid HIV strains that elude treatment and antiretroviral drugs, according to a new study by researchers from the
University of Florida
and other institutions, the
Gainesville Sun
reports.
For the study, researchers examined tissue from HIV-positive people and discovered that as much as half of the macrophages present were hybrids, made from genetic material from several HIV viruses that when combined formed new HIV strains. Marco Salemi -- assistant professor of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine at the University of Florida's
College of Medicine
-- said that macrophages likely make HIV more aggressive over time, adding, "If we want to eradicate HIV, we need to find a way to actually target the virus specifically infecting the macrophages."
According to the
Sun
,
current research and treatment target T-cells, and although antiretrovirals are effective at blocking infection from new cells and lowering viral loads, they are unable to reduce the viral level in an HIV-positive person to zero. The
Sun
notes that macrophages can be targeted by HIV multiple times, and once they are infected, they can live for months, unlike T-cells. The team of researchers, led by Michael McGrath of the
University of California - San Francisco
, is developing macrophage-targeting drugs through a grant from the
National Institute of Mental Health
, the
Sun
reports (Chun,
Gainesville Sun
, 5/28).
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New Scientist | HIV/AIDS | News
Video game makes HIV awareness fun
05 03 2010
A new computer game is being deployed in youth centres in Kenya with the goal of encouraging teens to practice safer sex and know the risk of acquiring HIV
Anti-HIV vaginal gel fails
05 03 2010
A vaginal gel designed to block HIV infection during sex has failed in a trial of 9385 women
Fight HIV with HIV: 'safe' virus proposed as vaccine
05 03 2010
The idea was dismissed years ago as too risky a proposition, but a new approach shows promise
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UNAIDS | Feature stories
Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS
WHO report highlights growing numbers of drug-resistant tuberculosis
20 03 2010
Up to a quarter of people with tuberculosis in some regions can no longer be treated with standard drug regimens. This is the stark finding of a new World Health Organization report which estimates that 440,000 people had multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) in 2008, a third of whom died.
CPLP and UNAIDS sign cooperation agreement in response to the AIDS epidemic
19 03 2010
LISBON, March 17, 2010 – The Community of Portuguese-Speaking Counties (CPLP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) formalized their cooperation in response to AIDS in CPLP countries with a Memorandum of Understanding. The cooperation agreement was signed today by CPLP Executive Secretary, Mr Domingos Simões Pereira and by UNAIDS Executive Director, Mr Michel Sidibé.
Disproportionate impact of HIV on men who have sex with men in US underlines need for better outreach
19 03 2010
New data analysis released on 10 March by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights that HIV and syphilis disproportionately impact gay and bisexual men in the United States (U.S.). The data, presented at CDC's 2010 National STD Prevention Conference, found that the rate of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the U.S. is more than 44 times that of other men and more than 40 times that of women.
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AIDSPortal | News
AIDSPortal is a joint initiative of the DFID Global AIDS Policy Team and the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development.
Ghana: Isodec Tracks Government HIV/Aids Resources
20 03 2010
Accra — The Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC) in collaboration with IDASA Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) of South Africa is undertaking two researches. The studies are part of a multi-country research project being conducted in Burundi, Ghana, Namibia, Uganda and Zambia. The outcomes and recommendations from the studies will inform and assist in the formulation of targeted capa...
Portuguese-speaking countries join forces with UN to fight HIV
20 03 2010
he United Nations agency that tackles HIV/AIDS and eight Portuguese-speaking countries that are home to an estimated 223 million people have agreed to strengthen their cooperation against the deadly disease. Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), signed an agreement yesterday in Lisbon with Domingos Simões Pereira, the Executive Secretary of the Commun...
India: Children, women with HIV face destitution & violence
20 03 2010
Fifteen per cent of India’s 2.5 million HIV-positive are children. That’s 375,000 children, with 50,000 being born infected or becoming infected each year. The government has woken up to the tragedy of women and children infected or affected by AIDS and held a series of public hearings across the country recently. “HIV has been addressed for more than 20 years but there has not been enough focu...
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IPS | HIV/AIDS | News
Inter Press Service is a global news agenc producing independent news and analysis of events affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations especially in the south
NAMIBIA: "If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It"
17 03 2010
WINDHOEK, Mar 16 (IPS) - "At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I just sit there and watch the people."
MALAWI: Rural Communities Jointly Care for Orphans
16 03 2010
LILONGWE, Mar 15 (IPS) - At the age of 66, village headman Kamwala of Dedza district in central Malawi is starting to feel the effects of ageing. He gets tired easily and needs frequent naps but says he cannot afford this luxury. He and his wife are caregivers to a one-year-old orphan.
HEALTH: U.S. AIDS Fund Flat-Lining, Groups Complain
13 03 2010
WASHINGTON, Mar 12 (IPS) - The debate between those who favour investment in AIDS treatment and those who favour investment in its prevention came to the forefront Thursday at a U.S House of Representatives hearing on U.S. investments in HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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