ETHIOPIA: Public warned against bogus AIDS drugs
7 October 2003 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia's Drug Administration and Control Authority (DACA) has cautioned the public against purchasing HIV/AIDS drugs on the black market.
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ETHIOPIA: New money to tackle diseases
17 September 2003 (PlusNews ), The Global AIDS Fund has released to Ethiopia US $45 million of the $100 million total grant to tackle HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, the Ethiopian News Agency reported on Tuesday.
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ETHIOPIA: Government alarm over HIV/AIDS impact
11 September 2003 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia has expressed concern over the "disastrous threat" of HIV/AIDS to the country's human resources, the Pan African News Agency (PANA) reported on Wednesday.
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ETHIOPIA: Cash injection to prevent AIDS babies
10 September 2003 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia's national programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV is set to benefit from a new US $5 million grant.
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ETHIOPIA: US funds to help cut mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS
9 September 2003 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia has been awarded US $5 million to help prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their unborn babies, officials announced on Monday.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36006
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ETHIOPIA: HIV/AIDS efforts crippled by silence
3 September 2003 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia's conservative society is hampering national efforts to raise HIV/AIDS awareness, an AIDS NGO has said.
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ETHIOPIA: Broader HIV testing programmes urged
19 August 2003 (PlusNews ), The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE) has called for the number of HIV/AIDS voluntary testing centres to be expanded.
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ETHIOPIA: Call for better HIV/AIDS campaigns
15 August 2003 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia must radically expand the country’s voluntary testing centres if it is to curb the AIDS scourge, a conference heard on Friday.
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ETHIOPIA: Dutch to redirect Ethiopia AIDS funding
8 August 2003 (PlusNews ), The recent withdrawal of funds by the Dutch government could force the Ethiopian-Netherlands AIDS Research Project (ENARP) to shut down.
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ETHIOPIA: AIDS centre faces closure over funding problem
7 August 2003 (PlusNews ), A pioneering AIDS research centre in Ethiopia is facing closure after the Dutch government withdrew its funding, scientists said on Thursday.
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ETHIOPIA: Feature - Anti-AIDS drugs offer little hope
4 August 2003 (PlusNews ), For Sister Tibebe Maco there is little reason to note, let alone celebrate, the first distribution of drugs to treat victims of the AIDS pandemic in Ethiopia.
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ETHIOPIA: Leaders urged to make more effort in fighting HIV/AIDS
21 July 2003 (PlusNews ), Participants in an HIV/AIDS conference in Addis Ababa have called on the Ethiopian authorities to take a greater leadership role in the fight against the epidemic.
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ETHIOPIA: Government ready to distribute HIV/AIDS drugs
15 July 2003 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia is on the brink of distributing the country’s first ever anti-retroviral drugs for treating HIV/AIDS – but only to people who can afford them.
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ETHIOPIA: Gov't criticises attitude towards women's rights
25 June 2003 (PlusNews ), The Ethiopian government has blasted the "pathetic" attitude towards women's rights in the country which it says is fuelling the AIDS epidemic.
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ETHIOPIA: Disregard of women's rights fuels AIDS
25 June 2003 (PlusNews ), Ethiopia's government on Wednesday said the country's "pathetic" attitude towards women’s rights was fuelling the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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ETHIOPIA: Women's coalition on HIV/AIDS launched
18 June 2003 (PlusNews ), Prime Minister Meles Zenawi called for a change in Ethiopians' sexual behaviour as he launched a national women’s coalition aimed at combating HIV. The coalition is made up of tens of thousands of women countrywide.
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ETHIOPIA: Mother-to-child HIV infection rate rises
11 June 2003 (PlusNews ), The mother-to-child transmission of HIV is on the rise in Ethiopia, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=35687
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ETHIOPIA: Interview with AIDS economist Alan Whiteside
10 June 2003 (PlusNews ),
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ETHIOPIA: Government official commits to HIV test
3 June 2003 (PlusNews ), In an effort to eradicate the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, an Ethiopian government official on Monday committed himself to being publicly tested for HIV.
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ETHIOPIA: Geldof calls on leaders to take AIDS test
2 June 2003 (PlusNews ), Bob Geldof has called on Ethiopia’s leaders to be tested for HIV/AIDS to prove their commitment to combating the pandemic.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=35655
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