ETHIOPIA: Calls for greater youth involvement in anti-AIDS fight
4 March 2004 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia’s youth were on Wednesday urged to join the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic devastating the country. Bjorn Ljungvist, the head of the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) in Ethiopia, said young people constituted the "greatest hope" in combating the virus.
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ETHIOPIA: Calls for greater youth involvement in anti-AIDS fight
4 March 2004 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia’s youth were on Wednesday urged to join the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic devastating the country. Bjorn Ljungvist, the head of the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) in Ethiopia, said young people constituted the "greatest hope" in combating the virus.
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ETHIOPIA: Botswana and Ethiopia to cooperate in fighting HIV/AIDS
2 March 2004 (PlusNews ), The leaders of two African countries severely hit by HIV/AIDS have agreed to cooperate in combating the pandemic. Botswanan President Festus Mogae, who on Monday started an official four-day visit to Ethiopia to boost bilateral relations and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said their two countries would share experiences in fighting the virus.
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ETHIOPIA: IRIN interview with anti-FGM activist Berhane Ras-Work
9 February 2004 (PlusNews ), Berhane Ras-Work, the president of the Inter-African Committee (IAC), has waged a 20-year war against harmful traditional practices like female genital mutilation (FGM), to which millions of African women are being subjected. Here, in an interview with PlusNews, held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa on 6 February, she challenges governments and the African Union (AU) to play a more vigorous role in the fight against FGM and towards helping to eradicate it by 2010.
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ETHIOPIA: Free AIDS drugs in remote area
29 January 2004 (PlusNews ), The international medical NGO, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has launched the first free antiretroviral (ARV) drug programme in a remote part of Ethiopia.
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ETHIOPIA: First free treatment programme for AIDS patients launched
29 January 2004 (PlusNews ), The international medical relief organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Tigray Regional Health Bureau this week launched the first programme of free anti-retrovirals (ARVs) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia, according to a press statement issued by MSF on Tuesday.
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ETHIOPIA: Country Profile
20 January 2004 (PlusNews ), PlusNews has updated its Country Profile database for Ethiopia, providing contact details of key AIDS NGOs, government departments and UN agencies, plus the latest epidemiological data and country indicator statistics.
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ETHIOPIA: Interview with director of HIV/AIDS film Hidden Tears
15 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia’s fledgling film industry is turning its attention to fighting the HIV/AIDS virus. In an interview with PlusNews the documentary film-maker, Kidane Yilak, talks of why he felt compelled to make the country’s first-ever film addressing the stigma and discrimination prompted by the virus.
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ETHIOPIA: Traditional burial societies to help people living with HIV/AIDS
13 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia’s traditional community-based burial societies - idirs -are now turning their attention to helping people living with HIV, officials said on Tuesday.
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ETHIOPIA: Positive turn-out for voluntary HIV testing
8 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Increased HIV/AIDS awareness in Ethiopia has led to a rising number of people in the capital, Addis Ababa, opting for voluntary HIV tests, health authorities have confirmed.
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ETHIOPIA: Suffering of HIV-positive women on film
6 January 2004 (PlusNews ), For the first time ever, Ethiopia's state-run television earlier this week broadcast a documentary depicting the discrimination and stigma encountered by local women living with HIV/AIDS.
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ETHIOPIA: New film depicts the suffering of women living with HIV
6 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia's first-ever film depicting the real-life tragedy being brought about by HIV/AIDS was broadcast across the country on Monday. The documentary is a powerful portrayal of the lives of women in Ethiopia who have become victims of discrimination and stigma because they are infected with the virus.
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ETHIOPIA: Free HIV/AIDS drugs for Christmas
9 December 2003 (PlusNews ), The Ethiopian Red Cross Society has announced plans to distribute free antiretroviral drugs, starting mid-December, to people living with HIV/AIDS.
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ETHIOPIA: Tackling HIV/AIDS through music
9 December 2003 (PlusNews ), Some of Ethiopia’s best-known musicians have released a song to fight widespread stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS.
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ETHIOPIA: Feature - Tackling HIV/AIDS
1 December 2003 (PlusNews ), As a mother leans over to breastfeed her hungry newborn baby, doctors look on anxiously knowing she could infect her child with the HIV virus.
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ETHIOPIA: Interview with UNAIDS head Bunmi Makinwa
28 November 2003 (PlusNews ), Bunmi Makinwa is the newly appointed head of UNAIDS in Ethiopia. Here ahead of World AIDS Day he tells PlusNews that total mobilisation is needed to win the fight against the virus that has infected 2.2 million in Ethiopia.
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ETHIOPIA: Free anti-AIDS drug plan announced
28 October 2003 (PlusNews ), Plans to distribute antiretroviral drugs free of charge to people living with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia's low-income bracket have been announced, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
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ETHIOPIA: UN Day marked in Addis Ababa
24 October 2003 (PlusNews ), The war against HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia has yet to be won, despite the fact that infection rates in Ethiopia remain at 2001 levels, said Dr Getachew Demeke, acting head of UNAIDS, on Friday.
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ETHIOPIA: New anti-AIDS strategy underway
23 October 2003 (PlusNews ), Some 400,000 Ethiopians are to benefit from an anti-AIDS programme that has successfully been applied in Germany and other European countries, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported on Thursday.
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ETHIOPIA: Circumcision abandoned to prevent HIV infection
16 October 2003 (PlusNews ), In an effort to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, some 350 practitioners of ritual circumcision in Ethiopia's Gonder region have agreed to abandon the practice, as well as other forms of genital mutilation.
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