Stephanie Hanes and Stephen Sapienza
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
6 Feb 2010
Dominican Republic: Life on the Margins. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting project
HIV is one of the big problems facing Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. To start to get a better sense of this epidemic in the country overall we stopped by a gathering of groups that work with marginalized Dominicans, whose members were meeting with UNAIDS and government officials to talk about HIV an...
6 Feb 2010
Young teachers, may be openly discussing the dangers of promiscuity with their pupils, but they are themselves engaging in risky sexual behaviour.
Their older colleagues, on the other hand, are reluctant to talk about sex and HIV/Aids in the classroom, because of their conservative nature.
This is according to a study conducted by KwaZulu-Natal HIV/Aids research organisation Heard set to b...
5 Feb 2010
London - The book Building Hope published today by Macmillan and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance provides families and communities who are supporting children affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa with information specifically geared to them.
More than 14 million children in sub-Saharan Africa are estimated to have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In 2008 around 390,000 children were newly in...
5 Feb 2010
LONDON - Global attention is turning away from the AIDS epidemic at just the wrong time and means a fresh wave of the disease could infect millions of people in high-risk countries, a leading expert said Friday.
Alan Whiteside, director of the health economics & HIV/AIDS research division (HEARD) at Kwazulu Natal University said many African countries, where the disease poses the biggest threat...
Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director of Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, Doctors Without Borders
4 Feb 2010
Much of the discussion surrounding President Barack Obama's proposed fee on financial institutions to help cut the U.S. deficit overlooks how similar revenue-generating ideas could close the glaring gaps in the global fight against several health emergencies.
Even though the past decade has seen a dramatic increase in efforts and funds dedicated to global health programs -- governments and priv...
4 Feb 2010
The UK ambassador to Uganda on Tuesday added his voice to growing international criticism on some sections of the proposed HIV Prevention and Control Bill 2009.
Mr Martin Shearman said it could block an effective response to the fight against disease. He cautioned that while there are some positive aspects of the Bill such as prohibition of discrimination against people living with HIV/Aids, th...
David Furnish, Executive Board Member, Elton John AIDS Foundation
3 Feb 2010
The recent earthquake in Haiti reminds us of the fragility of human life. In one instant, an entire city can be reduced to rubble, taking the lives of tens of thousands of people and devastating millions more. We can't stop natural disasters like earthquakes. But we can prevent another disaster - the HIV/AIDS pandemic - from causing undue suffering and tragic loss of life...
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3 Feb 2010
Scientists have finally discovered the structure of a key enzyme found in HIV and similar viruses, a breakthrough that has crucial implications for future HIV treatments.
Researchers from Imperial College London, in the UK, and Harvard University, in the US, developed a crystal that could reveal the structure of integrase - an enzyme used by HIV to integrate its genetic material into a host cel...
2 Feb 2010
Seven British Members of the House of Commons have have toured Bulawayo's biggest health delivery facility, Mpilo Central Hospital.
The visiting delegation consisting of Malcolm Bruce (Conservatives) Hugh Bayley (Labour), Nigel Evans (Conservative), Richard Burden (Labour), John Battle (Labour), Daniel Kawcynski (Conservative) and Mark Lancaster (Conservative) toured Mpilo Central Hospitals and...
2 Feb 2010
On the twentieth anniversary of the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) research unit’s presence in Uganda, Director Heiner Grosskurth looks back on the changing landscape of research into HIV/AIDS at the commemorative scientific symposium in Entebbe today. With Uganda often heralded as a model in Africa for fighting the disease, Professor Grosskurth reflects on how Uganda dramatically halved the pre...
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