East Africa

Uganda government under pressure to boost ARV funding

KAMPALA, 14 March 2013 (PlusNews) - The Ugandan government's draft 2013/2014 budget allocates US$38.5 million to enrol a further 100,000 people living with HIV on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But activists say the money, while welcome in a country still largely dependent on donor funds for its HIV programmes, is not sufficient to meet treatment needs. full report

Analysis: Condoms continue to confound Uganda

KAMPALA, 1 March 2013 (PlusNews) - The condom has played a central role in Uganda’s official HIV prevention strategy for over two decades, but the country has yet to get it right, with condom use declining and the government unable to meet what demand does exist. full report

Kenya’s HIV programmes steel themselves for elections

NAIROBI, 26 February 2013 (PlusNews) - When violence broke out following the announcement of Kenya’s poll results in 2007, Henry Mwiterere and his family fled to safety shortly before their house, in the Rift Valley town of Burnt Forest, was burned to the ground. full report

Activists pressure Kenya's presidential candidates to act on HIV

BOMET, 25 February 2013 (PlusNews) - A small team of HIV/AIDS activists is trailing Kenyan presidential candidates as they crisscross the country, pressing them to increase their commitment to the care and treatment of people living with HIV. full report

Ugandan authorities concerned as HIV self-test kits hit the market

KAMPALA, 6 February 2013 (PlusNews) - The sale of HIV test kits to the public by private chemists in Uganda is causing concern among health officials, who feel that HIV testing should remain in the hands of professionals and be accompanied by counselling. full report

Uganda begins rollout of provider-initiated HIV testing

KAMPALA, 30 January 2013 (PlusNews) - All people who seek treatment in health centres in Uganda will be offered HIV testing and counselling under a new plan to increase access to HIV prevention and treatment. full report

Ugandan HIV campaign targets "cheaters"

KAMPALA, 23 January 2013 (PlusNews) - A new Ugandan HIV-prevention campaign that frankly addresses sexual infidelity is generating heated debate over the direction the country's HIV strategy should take. full report

HIV/AIDS: Uganda still behind on ARV target

KAMPALA, 7 January 2013 (PlusNews) - Uganda continues to fall short of achieving its goal of ensuring that 80 percent of people living with HIV receive antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) by 2015, according to the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC). full report

KENYA: Milka*, “You have to let go hiding your HIV status to save your child”

NDHIWA, 2 January 2013 (PlusNews) - Milka*, a 25-year-old HIV-positive mother-of-three, knew through prenatal visits to her local clinic in Ndhiwa District, western Kenya, that feeding her newborn daughter only with breast milk would increase the infant’s chances of staying free of HIV. full report

KENYA: Integration of PMTCT and maternal and child health gets results

NAIROBI/NDHIWA, 19 December 2012 (PlusNews) - Health programmes integrating services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV into regular maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) clinics, rather than operating PMTCT services as stand-along programmes, are showing positive results in Kenya, experts say. full report
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