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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EGYPT: Taking aim at ignorance about HIV/AIDS
22 February 2008 (PlusNews ), Eight Egyptian men who were arrested and forced to undergo HIV tests, and the subsequent torture of the two who tested HIV-positive, has unleashed a storm of controversy in a country where people still know very little about HIV.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76899
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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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EGYPT: Lack of official concern over silently rising HIV infections
6 December 2006 (PlusNews ), HIV/AIDS is 'invisible' in Egypt. With an HIV prevalence rate of less than 0.1 percent, not many people in this conservative Muslim country talk about it, and even fewer know someone living with the virus.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=62715
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EGYPT: Rights of HIV-positive people under review
15 November 2005 (PlusNews ), A UN-sponsored meeting in Egypt has brought together experts from 14 Arab countries to review laws affecting the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=39157
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EGYPT: Lifting the veil of taboo on HIV/AIDS
19 October 2005 (PlusNews ), Egypt is still in the early stages of fighting HIV/AIDS, hindered by public fear and ignorance of the disease and the social rejection of people infected with it. As a result, women hardly register Egypt's official AIDS statistics.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=39844
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EGYPT: Arab religious leaders tackle AIDS head-on
13 December 2004 (PlusNews ), At least 80 prominent religious leaders from Arab countries signed a declaration that will act as a foundation for tackling HIV/AIDS in Cairo on Monday.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37999
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EGYPT: Free drugs for HIV-positive people
13 July 2004 (PlusNews ), People living with HIV/AIDS in Egypt will begin receiving free antiretroviral drugs as part of a new governmental initiative, Agence France-Press has reported.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37216
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