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SIAYA - When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she felt she had to move out.full report


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AFRICA: Trying to give sex workers safer alternatives

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ZAMBIA: Orphans grow up without cultural identity
LUSAKA, 16 November 2009 (PlusNews) - Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses. She is now 19 years old, and without relatives to represent her at her lobola (bride price) negotiations, she was forced to hire traditional counsellors to organise the process of marriage according to the tribal customs. They did a bad job.
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UGANDA: AIDS Commission takes new direction in prevention
KAMPALA, 16 November 2009 (PlusNews) - The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped.
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GLOBAL: Global Fund approves $2.4 billion in new grants
NAIROBI, 13 November 2009 (PlusNews) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved US$2.4 billion in its ninth round of grants, bringing the total amount of approved funding since its inception in 2001 to $18.4 billion.
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In Latin American, where an estimated 60 percent of people living with HIV are men who have sex with men, only 0.5 percent of funds for prevention targeted this group

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The programme will feature state-of-the-art information about HIV Clinical Management approaches (Track A) as well as HIV Prevention, Testing, and Psychosocial Support (Track B) in developed and developing world settings.

The 2009 PHASA conference theme is “Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Measuring progress in public health in South Africa.”

The SAHARA conference has a very specific focus, the social aspects of HIV – that is the social and cultural aspects of the epidemic (as opposed to the bio-medical ones). An important feature of the conference is its strong Africa focus.

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