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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NIGER: Food crisis drives young women to sell their bodies
12 September 2005 (PlusNews ), Ide can have sex with Mariam, a novice on the Niamey night scene, several times for only two or three dollars. “The most important thing for her is having something to put in the cooking pot the next day,” he says.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38978
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NIGER: HIV/AIDS drugs available but no takers
1 July 2005 (PlusNews ), The word for HIV-AIDS in Hausa, the language most widely spoken in Niger, means “Welcome to the grave”. This landlocked West African nation is one of the world's poorest but international donors have made available ample funds to tackle AIDS.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38761
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NIGER: Hazardous sex and no AIDS treatment in frontier trucking town
16 June 2005 (PlusNews ), Truckers from all over West Africa converge daily on this bustling frontier town, where several hundred of prostitutes wait to greet to them in roadside bars and crowded brothels, where gaudy neon lights flash a welcome.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38707
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NIGER: More people tested as AIDS acceptance grows
3 June 2004 (PlusNews ), More people in Niger are voluntarily being tested for HIV as acceptance and understanding of the disease improves, health workers have pointed out.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37064
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NIGER: Health workers report increased willingness to take HIV tests
2 June 2004 (PlusNews ), More people in the landlocked desert state of Niger are volunteering to undergo testing for HIV/AIDS as acceptance and understanding of the disease improves, according to health workers in the capital, Niamey.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=37057
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NIGER: Country's first HIV/AIDS clinic operational
13 November 2003 (PlusNews ), A specialist HIV/AIDS out-patient clinic and public awareness centre has been opened through a joint initiative between the government of Niger and the local Red Cross.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36331
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NIGER: Niger opens first AIDS clinic
12 November 2003 (PlusNews ), The government of Niger and the local Red Cross have opened a specialist out-patient clinic and public awareness centre for HIV/AIDS in the capital Niamey.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36328
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NIGER: Traditional chiefs agree to spread HIV/AIDS messages
9 October 2003 (PlusNews ), The 30 traditional chiefs dressed in bright-coloured gowns or "boubous" and turbans that covered all but their noses and eyes came to the northern Niger town of In Gall, over 1,000 km from the capital Niamey, to attend a festival.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36198
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NIGER: Traditional chiefs agree to spread HIV/AIDS messages
9 October 2003 (PlusNews ), The 30 traditional chiefs dressed in bright-coloured gowns or "boubous" and turbans that covered all but their noses and eyes came to the northern Niger town of In Gall, over 1,000 km from the capital Niamey, to attend a festival.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36197
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