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.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79150
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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.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=78809
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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.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=78602
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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.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=77003
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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.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76940
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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.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=73172
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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.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=73092
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DJIBOUTI: The weight of silence - overcoming the stigma of HIV/AIDS
23 May 2006 (PlusNews ), In the deeply conservative Muslim society of the Red Sea state of Djibouti, HIV-positive people wear their status as a cloak of shame.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=39613
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DJIBOUTI: Grappling with the demand for anti-AIDS drugs
16 December 2004 (PlusNews ), At one stage, Roda, a 24-year-old woman living in Djibouti, had tuberculosis, a skin disorder, and was disfigured with disease. In March she began receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) and has started leading a more normal life again.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38018
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DJIBOUTI: Global Fund millions bring more AIDS drugs
30 July 2004 (PlusNews ), People living with HIV/AIDS in Djibouti could soon have wider access to anti-AIDS drugs as a result of a Global AIDS Fund allocation of US $12 million.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37283
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DJIBOUTI: More free antiretroviral drugs to become available
29 July 2004 (PlusNews ), The Djiboutian government is to expand the provision of free antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to people infected with the HIV virus using an allocation of US $12 million from the Global Fund Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS Malaria and Tuberculosis, officials told PlusNews.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37275
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DJIBOUTI: AIDS training programme targets young women
20 July 2004 (PlusNews ), An HIV/AIDS training programme for female peer-educators is being conducted by the Djibouti Ministry of Women Promotion.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37245
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DJIBOUTI: Female peer educators trained on HIV/AIDS
19 July 2004 (PlusNews ), The Djiboutian ministry for the promotion of women is conducting training programmes on HIV/AIDS for female peer-educators, saying it is mainly targeting young women who are most vulnerable to infection.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37241
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DJIBOUTI: Media to take more active role in fighting HIV/AIDS
2 June 2004 (PlusNews ), The Djiboutian communication and culture ministry has said it plans to involve journalists more actively in fighting HIV/AIDS despite a relatively low prevalence of the virus in the country.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37055
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DJIBOUTI: AIDS drug rollout kicks off
12 March 2004 (PlusNews ), Djibouti has started its first antiretroviral rollout programme at Peltier Hospital, the country's main medical centre, in Djibouti City.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36736
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DJIBOUTI: Free ARVs distributed for the first time
11 March 2004 (PlusNews ), Some 40 HIV-positive people on Tuesday began to receive free antiretrovirals (ARVs) after Health Minister Muhammad Ali Kamil launched Djibouti's first distribution of ARV medication at Peltier Hospital, the country's main medical centre.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36727
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DJIBOUTI: Free ARVs distributed for the first time
11 March 2004 (PlusNews ), Some 40 HIV-positive people on Tuesday began to receive free antiretrovirals (ARVs) after Health Minister Muhammad Ali Kamil launched Djibouti's first distribution of ARV medication at Peltier Hospital, the country's main medical centre.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36728
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