| KENYA: Kicking HIV out of Nairobi's slums |
 NAIROBI, 8 September 2010 (PlusNews) - On a dusty football field in Mathare, one of the largest slums in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, young boys chase a rough, home-made ball. Their coach, Elias Mwangi, 21, a former drug addict, hopes football will not only keep the boys away from crime but motivate them to avoid behaviours that put them at risk of HIV.
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| KENYA: Nomadic communities struggle to access PMTCT |
 SAMBURU, 7 September 2010 (PlusNews) - Nomadic Kenyan women who test positive for HIV but live in remote areas far from the nearest health facility are missing out on the opportunity to prevent their children from becoming infected with the virus.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: National HIV testing campaign disappoints |
 MANZINI, 7 September 2010 (PlusNews) - South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, is trying to pull off the most extensive global HIV testing campaign but the ambitious initiative is facing some daunting realities.
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| SWAZILAND: Task-shifting could improve HIV treatment and prevention |
 MANZINI, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - Swaziland has yet to act on a 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to alleviate health worker shortages through task-shifting and according to the Ministry of Health, the failure to do so is compromising scale-up of the antiretroviral (ARV) programme.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Strike sends XDR-TB patients home |
 DURBAN, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - Striking public health workers in South Africa have virtually shut down King George V Hospital, a referral facility in the port city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Province, which specializes in caring for and isolating patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extremely drug-resistant (XDR)-TB.
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| GLOBAL: New two-hour TB test |
 JOHANNESBURG, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - A new, accurate, easy-to-use test can diagnose tuberculosis (TB) - including drug-resistant strains of the disease - in less than two hours. It has the potential to save thousands of lives in developing countries, where current tests are often unreliable, take weeks to process, or are simply unavailable.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Survivor's guide for non-striking health workers |
 JOHANNESBURG, 2 September 2010 (PlusNews) - Public sector strikes in South Africa have become so common in recent years that people are asking if plans should not be put in place to prevent the disruption of HIV and tuberculosis [TB] treatment, and prepare health workers.
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| KENYA: Camel clinics bring condoms to nomads |
 SAMBURU, 31 August 2010 (PlusNews) - In the remote and rural district of Samburu, northern Kenya, where paved roads are scarce and motorised transport hard to come by, reaching the mostly pastoralist and nomadic inhabitants with HIV/AIDS services requires an unusual approach.
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