| SWAZILAND: Pregnant women still struggle to prevent HIV |
 MBABANE, 17 July 2008 (PlusNews) - Larger numbers of pregnant women living with HIV in Swaziland can now access services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus, but activists and health officials say more emphasis should have been placed on quality rather than quantity.
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| MOZAMBIQUE: Attitudes to HIV are changing in jail |
 CHIMOIO, 11 July 2008 (PlusNews) - Sex between prison inmates is a reality at Manica Provincial Prison, in central Mozambique, but because same-sex relations are taboo, and conjugal visits are not allowed, many HIV-positive inmates say they were infected before they were sent to the largest prison in Manica Province.
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| KENYA: Post-violence sex work boom |
 MOMBASA, 9 July 2008 (PlusNews) - Like thousands of other Kenyans, Susan Wairimu, 17, was displaced from her home in the Rift Valley Province's Molo district during the violence that followed a disputed presidential election in December 2007 and sought shelter in the nearby town of Nakuru.
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| ISRAEL: More awareness needed as HIV infection rises |
 TEL AVIV, 7 July 2008 (PlusNews) - HIV may be a relatively small problem in Israel, but the soaring rate of new infections among vulnerable populations has forced health officials to take action.
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| RWANDA: Military to lead the way in male circumcision |
 KIGALI, 3 July 2008 (PlusNews) - The soldiers in the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) will be the first men to benefit from a government policy to use male circumcision as a tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to senior health officials.
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| SOUTHERN AFRICA: Understanding infidelity |
 CAPE TOWN, 5 June 2008 (PlusNews) - "Multiple, concurrent partnerships" has become the latest catchphrase in the HIV/AIDS lexicon. It refers to the practice of having more than one sexual partner at the same time, which experts say is a key driver of Southern Africa's devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: HIV a factor behind obesity? |
 CAPE TOWN, 4 June 2008 (PlusNews) - While public health experts in South Africa spent much of the last decade focusing on controlling infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and eradicating malnutrition, the growth of another public health crisis has gone almost unnoticed.
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| SWAZILAND: Tackling low condom use dramatically |
 MANZINI, 20 May 2008 (PlusNews) - Why are condoms so unpopular? This question has baffled and discouraged health experts for a decade, but in Swaziland the mystery of why men and women refuse to use condoms is slowly being unravelled by a project that is getting Swazi men to open up about their condom use, or lack thereof.
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