9 Mar 2010
London – AIDS leaders gathering in London today face the daunting challenge of implementing new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for earlier treatment with better AIDS drug cocktails at a time when donors are backing away from the promise of “universal access”, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The WHO recently released new treatment recommendations for people living with HIV...
9 Mar 2010
Uganda is unable to offer lifetime treatment to the country’s 350,000 AIDS patients because it can’t afford the $4 billion it would cost to supply them with medication, the Uganda Aids Commission said.
The high cost and the continuing increase in the number of infected adults and children makes the “target of achieving universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment impossible to attain ...
8 Mar 2010
Poverty elimination can only be achieved by addressing the disproportionate burden of poverty borne by women. Eliminating gender inequality and achieving women's empowerment are essential to achieving all the Millennium Development Goals and so gender issues are increasingly integrated into projects across DFID's research portfolio. This includes research on removing barriers to women’s participat...
7 Mar 2010
India will have to scale up prevention of HIV to avoid having to spend an increasing share of its health budget on treatment of AIDS patients, the World Bank and other agencies said Sunday.
New Delhi spends about 5 percent of its $5.4 billion healthcare budget on treating AIDS patients.
India with 2.5 million patients is among the top three countries with the highest number of HIV cases, alo...
6 Mar 2010
A lawmaker supporting the Reproductive Health Bill seems headed for a collision with the Roman Catholic Church on the issue of condoms.
Rep. Janet Garin of Iloilo on Friday accused leaders of the Catholic Church for making a blatant attempt to mislead the public.
Garin, a medical doctor, was reacting to recent pronouncements made by some Catholic bishops and leaders who said that condoms can...
6 Mar 2010
HARARE — Since testing positive for HIV six years ago, Cecilia Chinhamo has endured a torrent of verbal abuse from her husband.
"My husband shouts at me and calls me a walking corpse," said the 30-year-old Zimbabwean vegetable vendor. "I can only cry when he says that. What else can I do?"
Of the 1.6 million Zimbabweans with HIV, 55 percent of are women, according to government statistics.
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6 Mar 2010
Accra - Most people in the Muslim community do not appreciate the Domestic Violence Act as majority of married Muslim women suffer gender based violence, a Muslim researcher has said.
"Gender based violence has become a matter of global concern especially for women since they are the hardest hit by the storm of violence and it was about time the Ghanaian Muslim community addressed it". Hajia F...
6 Mar 2010
The District will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that will make 500,000 of them available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates.
The move is an official acknowledgment of the futility of relying solely on the use of male condoms, which have been distributed citywide for nea...
5 Mar 2010
The Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual (LGBT) Association (Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais or ABGLT) recently launched an “LGBT Communication Manual” aimed at communication professionals, students and teachers to reduce the use of inappropriate language that prejudices, or perpetuates misunderstandings about the millions Braz...
The Global Forum on MSM & HIV
5 Mar 2010
The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) applauds efforts by people living with HIV in Uganda to stand up against the proposed “Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009”, and urges HIV service providers in the country to join them by making a clear, collective public statement condemning the proposed legislation and calling for its immediate dissolution. If enacted, this legislation will have a profoundly detr...
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