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GLOBAL: Falling foul of the Fund
4 November 2008 (PlusNews ), The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed in 2001 for the purpose of setting up an innovative approach to providing finance to combat the three diseases that kill more than six million people worldwide every year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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GHANA: Increase in HIV/AIDS treatment and care centres
15 October 2006 (PlusNews ), Forty-five-year-old butcher Amadu* eagerly looks forward to his first visit to the Tamale Government hospital's new HIV/AIDS treatment and care centre in northern Ghana.
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GHANA: VP vocal on workplace AIDS discrimination
13 July 2006 (PlusNews ), Ghanaian Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has expressed concern over continued HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination occurring in the workplace.
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GHANA: World Bank AIDS millions approved
18 November 2005 (PlusNews ), Ghana has secured a US $20 million anti-AIDS loan from the International Development Association (IDA), a division of the World Bank that provides interest-free loans to impoverished countries.
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GHANA: Government ploughs ahead with plans to produce AIDS drugs locally
31 August 2005 (PlusNews ), A new plant has begun production of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs as part of government plans to expand distribution of the life prolonging treatment for its HIV-positive citizens.
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GHANA: AIDS treatment on rise, but stigma still around
17 August 2005 (PlusNews ), With anti-AIDS drugs becoming widely available in Ghana, thousands of HIV-positive people are living longer, healthier lives but health workers say they continue to hide their status, frightened of rejection by friends, family and colleagues.
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GHANA: Single battle-plan to hit both TB and HIV/AIDS
19 May 2005 (PlusNews ), With tuberculosis (TB) sharply on the rise in Ghana, the local health authorities believe joint programmes to stamp out HIV/AIDS and TB may be the answer.
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GHANA: HIV-AIDS on decline for first time in 5 years, survey shows
15 April 2005 (PlusNews ), Ghana's HIV/AIDS infection rate has dropped for the first time in five years, and is now down countrywide to 3.1 percent from 3.6 percent in 2003, according to a new sentinel survey released this week.
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GHANA: Local employers start to care for their HIV-positive staff
7 April 2005 (PlusNews ), The world fell apart for Ghanaian primary school teacher Haruna Ibn Hassan three years ago when his wife died of AIDS and he found that he too had contracted the disease.
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GHANA: Legalised prostitution urged to combat AIDS
18 March 2005 (PlusNews ), The Ghana AIDS Commission has called for the legalisation of prostitution as a means of tackling the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38341

GHANA: HIV-care initiative ESTHER comes to town
18 February 2005 (PlusNews ), ESTHER, a French government initiative which helps people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries gain access to healthcare, will shortly start operating in Ghana, ESTHER chairman Bernard Kouchner said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38230

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