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  • Uganda: Activists Demand Increased Provision of Aids Medication
    AllAfrica | 09 July 2010

    The government should provide more funds to ensure anti-retroviral treatment is accessible to all, women activists living with HIV/Aids have demanded.

  • World Bank names Zimbabwean to head AIDS program
    Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed | 09 July 2010

    The World Bank on Thursday named David Wilson, a Zimbabwean national who has written extensively about AIDS in the developing world, to head the poverty-fighting institution's global HIV/AIDS program. Wilson, who joined the Bank in 2003, has

  • Ugandan Aids patients stage protest
    Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed | 09 July 2010

    Hundreds of Ugandan women afflicted with Aids staged a protest Thursday on the streets of the capital Kampala in protest against the current shortage of drugs for Aids patients. The women, grouped under the National Community of Women Living

  • WHO's HIV/AIDS chief says more room for talks on drugs price cuts
    Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed | 08 July 2010

    The new director of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization, Gottfried Hirnschall, said although there has been enormous international pressure on manufacturers to cut AIDS drugs prices, there was room for more negotiations.

  • EU Parliament calls for new laws to fight AIDS
    Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed | 08 July 2010

    On Thursday the European Parliament approved a resolution calling on governments to pass new laws ensuring more affordable medication for people with HIV.

  • GLOBAL: Straight talk with Gottfried Hirnschall, WHO's new director of HIV
    IRIN Plus News | 08 July 2010

    The UN World Health Organization (WHO) recently appointed Gottfried Hirnschall the new director of its HIV department. IRIN/PlusNews talked to him about the state of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care, and how countries need to respond to waning donor funding for HIV programmes.

  • UGANDA: Sex workers demand "rights, not rescue"
    IRIN Plus News | 08 July 2010

    When Macklean Kyomya came to the Ugandan capital, Kampala, at 19, she found work as a lap-dancer in a nightclub and was soon accepting money from clients in exchange for sex.

  • TANZANIA: Taking the HIV risk out of road crews
    IRIN Plus News | 08 July 2010

    An initiative by the Tanzanian government hopes to reduce HIV transmission along the country's expanding road network by targeting construction crews and the communities that surround them.

  • Methadone 'works and saves lives'
    BBC Health | 08 July 2010

    The long-term survival of drug users is improved by use of the controversial heroin substitute methadone, academics claim.

  • South Africa: Circumcision clamp slammed
    AllAfrica | 08 July 2010

    HIV doctors and activists have slammed a male circumcision clamp that is being aggressively marketed in South Africa and the rest of the continent with a small study showing that it is much more painful that the surgical route and has more adverse events.

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