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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MAURITANIA: AIDS "caravan of hope" travels river valley to break taboos
11 May 2005 (PlusNews ), This is a road show with a difference - a West African "caravan of hope" raising awareness about HIV/AIDS through evenings of entertainment that are wowing the crowds in Mauritania.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38563
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MAURITANIA: Fight against AIDS slow to take root in port city of Nouadhibou
1 April 2005 (PlusNews ), Nouadhibou, a busy port in the desert north of Mauritania, is a crossroads for fishermen, mine workers and clandestine migrants heading towards Europe, but efforts to combat AIDS in this melting pot of humanity are still in their infancy.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38400
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MAURITANIA: Fight against AIDS slow to take root in port city of Nouadhibou
1 April 2005 (PlusNews ), Nouadhibou, a busy port in the desert north of Mauritania, is a crossroads for fishermen, mine workers and clandestine migrants heading towards Europe, but efforts to combat AIDS in this melting pot of humanity are still in their infancy.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38399
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MAURITANIA: Sex work for survival, armed with condoms
17 February 2005 (PlusNews ), Every night hundreds of women sell their bodies for sex in darkened brothels in El Mina, a poor district of the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38222
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MAURITANIA: Taboos, denial and lack of data hinder fight against AIDS
14 February 2005 (PlusNews ), As the Islamic Republic of Mauritania begins to respond to HIV/AIDS, social taboos, widespread denial and an absence of accurate data, combine to make progress difficult.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38208
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MAURITANIA: Nouakchott gets its first HIV/AIDS test and treatment centre
3 December 2004 (PlusNews ), Mauritania opened its first HIV/AIDs testing and treatment centre this week in the hope of improving early detection of the disease in this staunchly Islamic desert state where public discussion of AIDS has long been restrained by social taboos.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37976
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MAURITANIA: Imams join low-key campaign against AIDS
29 December 2003 (PlusNews ), HIV/AIDS is still a taboo subject in staunchly Islamic Mauritania, but awareness of the disease is growing. The authorities have recently persuaded religious leaders to start preaching about the dangers of AIDS and the need to stop it spreading.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36473
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MAURITANIA: AIDS millions for West African country
10 July 2003 (PlusNews ), More than half of a recently approved US $39 million World Bank grant has been allocated to assist the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in tackling HIV/AIDS.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=35783
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MAURITANIA: World Bank approves $39 m for HIV/AIDS and mining
9 July 2003 (PlusNews ), The World Bank has approved a US $39 million financial package for Mauritania to improve its mining industry and fight against HIV/AIDS, the Bank reported on Tuesday.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=35774
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