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Rare case of child-to-mother HIV transmission
"He beat me up and told me to go to the place where I got infected. He did not believe what I told him"
YANGI-NOOKAT - The story of how Nasiba, 32, and her 2-year-old son, Akram, both became infected with HIV is not the familiar one of an unfaithful husband and a mother unwittingly infecting her child.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Hope in a shipping container clinic |  RUSTENBERG, 25 August 2008 (PlusNews) - When Margaret Ndinisa came to Freedom Park, the inappropriately named squatter camp that surrounds Impala Platinum mine in South Africa's North West Province, the settlement consisted of little more than a few shacks which the police regularly dismantled.
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| | SWAZILAND: "We are dying, they are flying!" |  MBABANE, 22 August 2008 (PlusNews) - Several hundred Swazis, including people living with HIV, marched on 21 August to highlight the need for government to prioritise funding to alleviate the humanitarian crises in the country.
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| | Blog: It's always wise to condomise |  NAIROBI, 21 August 2008 (PlusNews) - During a recent trip to report on a pilot male circumcision programme in Kisumu, a part of Kenya where male circumcision is not traditionally practiced, I was allowed to sit in on a pre-op counselling session.
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25m children will have lost at least one parent to AIDS by the year 2010 |
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This conference is aimed at examining and providing solutions for some of the current challenges to HIV/AIDS in the workplace, which include loss of experienced personnel, absenteeism, increased recruitment and training costs, increased labour turnover and lower productivity.
Organised by the national branch of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, the conference will give new insights into HIV treatment regimens and will look at initiatives to reduce HIV transmission.
The 29 Sept - 1 Oct conference aims to strengthen linkages between HIV/AIDS and reproductive health by developing partnerships across sectors through information exchange, the sharing of experiences, and developing a consensus on current research and service delivery gaps.
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