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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Is the pen mightier than the virus?
16 October 2008 (PlusNews ), Isn't it time that journalists started taking HIV/AIDS beyond the newsroom and into the bedroom? In many newsrooms the highly politicised topic of HIV/AIDS remains just that - political. Journalists aren't immune to HIV/AIDS; they just don't talk about it.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80955

GLOBAL: Leadership determines AIDS performance
25 September 2008 (PlusNews ), As South Africa prepared to swear in a new president on 25 September after the dramatic ousting of Thabo Mbeki four days before, attempts by commentators to summarise the former president's mixed legacy have not failed to mention his controversial stance on AIDS.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80597

GLOBAL: US lifts travel ban on HIV-positive people
21 July 2008 (PlusNews ), A move by the United States Senate to repeal legislation prohibiting HIV-positive visitors and immigrants has been hailed as an important step in the fight against stigma and discrimination.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79361

GLOBAL: AIDS spending breaks records, but needs more focus
8 July 2008 (PlusNews ), HIV/AIDS funding to low- and middle-income countries reached a record level in 2007, according to a new report by UNAIDS.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79150

ANGOLA: Invisible and vulnerable
19 June 2008 (PlusNews ), It was a wedding that pulled out all the stops, including a party at the Marine Club on the island of Luanda and a five-star nuptial night at the Hotel Presidente Meridien. The ceremony didn't go unnoticed by Angola’s newspapers. “Shameless,” screamed the cover of one of the country’s weekly news magazines. “Abominable,” read the headline of another.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=78814

AFRICA: Mind your language - a short guide to HIV/AIDS slang
18 June 2008 (PlusNews ), HIV has hit our lives, our families, our economies; it also shapes the way we talk. IRIN/PlusNews looks at how the virus and its impact translates into everyday speech from the streets of Lagos to the townships of Johannesburg, and finds that despite the billions of dollars spent on positive communication strategies, the word on the street remains decidedly negative.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=78809

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Understanding infidelity
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.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=78602

ANGOLA: Should intentional infection be a crime?
26 May 2008 (PlusNews ), Proposed reforms to Angola's Penal Code have divided opinion in the country about whether HIV-positive people who intentionally infect others with the virus should be punished.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=78412

ANGOLA: Sex work in separatist Cabinda
11 April 2008 (PlusNews ), Money and men are in no short supply in the petroleum-rich Angolan enclave of Cabinda. Workers from the petroleum industry, truck drivers, merchants and some 60,000 soldiers and police are based in the area; and sex workers from the country's poor and unstable neighbours are crossing Cabinda's porous borders, trying to make ends meet.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=77724

GLOBAL: Less silence, more science could make anal sex safer
27 February 2008 (PlusNews ), The silence and taboo surrounding anal sex is putting millions of men and women at risk of HIV, delegates attending the fourth international microbicides conference in New Delhi, India, heard this week.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=77003

GLOBAL: ARVs in microbicide research - keeping hope alive?
25 February 2008 (PlusNews ), After a string of depressing trial results, the fourth international microbicides conference in New Delhi, India, kicked off this week with a ray of hope that new research could deliver a new generation of HIV prevention approaches for women.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76940

ANGOLA: To tell or not to tell, that is the tricky question
6 December 2007 (PlusNews ), Maria Antónia* began to wonder about her husband's frequent trips to neighbouring South Africa, especially when he was away for 15 days without contacting her on one occasion. She decided to investigate whether he was going to South Africa to see another woman, but discovered that he was going to get antiretroviral (ARV) medication because he was HIV positive.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=75730

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Women take sexual risks to feed their families
31 October 2007 (PlusNews ), Women in food insecure southern Africa are putting themselves in danger of contracting HIV in their desperation to feed themselves and their families, a new study has found.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=75071

ANGOLA: An end in sight to travelling abroad for second-line ARVs
30 October 2007 (PlusNews ), Patients who have grown resistant to first-line antiretrovirals in Angola are now more likely to win the lottery of life and health with the impending arrival of 1,500 batches of second-line treatment drugs.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=75052

ANGOLA: HIV positive people demand rights
26 September 2007 (PlusNews ), For Father Luís Fernandez, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Luanda, capital of Angola, a visit to the market is often all it takes to find out what life is like for people living with HIV.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=74507

SOUTHERN AFRICA: The effect of migration on HIV rates
13 September 2007 (PlusNews ), Trying to measure the impact of the Zimbabwean exodus on HIV/AIDS rates in the region is so fraught with ifs, buts and maybes that the only reasonable assumption is that, like other migrants, economic migrants may run a higher risk of infection than they would have if they had not left their homes.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=74282

ANGOLA: TB threatens both workers and patients at Luanda Hospital
6 September 2007 (PlusNews ), Luanda Sanatorium Hospital, which has a reputation as being Angola's leading tuberculosis (TB) treatment centre, should be a place of relief and recovery for patients with the disease in the capital, Luanda. But with a lack of protective materials for healthcare workers and crumbling infrastructure, the hospital has become a dangerous breeding ground for TB, infecting both staff and patients.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=74161

GLOBAL: Women want a bigger piece of the funding pie
10 July 2007 (PlusNews ), After burning the midnight oil for many weeks while preparing a US$50 million gender-based project proposal to lay before the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, Swazi activists found that it had vanished from their country's grant application. They were dumbfounded.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=73172

GLOBAL: Global forum for women with HIV
5 July 2007 (PlusNews ), AIDS does not only travel with truckers along African highways; it flies business class with men in dark suits, crawls into marriages and lurks in playgrounds. It smiles at you every day at work and, disproportionately, affects African women and girls because of gender inequalities.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=73092

ANGOLA: The pros and cons of snipping
21 February 2007 (PlusNews ), Friends Paula and Marta giggle at the suggestion of having sex with an uncircumcised man; both say they have only tried it once.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=70304

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