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EAST AFRICA: Regional HIV Bill passed without criminalization clause
27 April 2012 (PlusNews ), East Africa's Legislative Assembly has passed a regional HIV/AIDS Bill that seeks to protect the rights of people living with HIV and harmonize regional legislation and policy on the prevention and treatment of HIV.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=95371

TANZANIA: New pharmaceutical plant to produce ARVs
6 March 2012 (PlusNews ), Commercial production of Tanzania's first locally manufactured antiretroviral drugs will start in the next few months; it is hoped the country will eventually provide medicines for half of all HIV-positive Tanzanians.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=95023

TANZANIA: Good results in programme to boost TB detection
1 February 2012 (PlusNews ), A pilot community programme to improve TB detection in northern Tanzania has shown good results and could be replicated nationwide as the country seeks to improve its TB treatment and prevention systems.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=94771

AFRICA: Snake oil salesmen and dodgy HIV "cures"
19 January 2012 (PlusNews ), Uganda's National Drug Authority recently arrested sales representatives of a company selling a drug that purports to cure HIV; the firm's owners are not licensed to sell medicine and are being sought by the police.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=94679

TANZANIA: Good progress in male circumcision campaign
18 January 2012 (PlusNews ), The demand for medical male circumcision is growing among Tanzania's non-circumcising communities, and officials say the country is on track to surpass its goal of reaching 2.8 million men by 2015.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=94667

TANZANIA: Government recalls faulty HIV test kits
6 January 2012 (PlusNews ), Tanzanian health authorities have announced the withdrawal of a South Korean HIV test kit from circulation following warnings about its poor quality.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=94592

TANZANIA: Authorities urge caution on popular "cure-all" herb
4 April 2011 (PlusNews ), As thousands of people flock to the north of Tanzania in search of a popular herbal "miracle" cure, authorities are urging HIV-positive people to continue taking their antiretroviral medication.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=92360

TANZANIA: New centres to boost paediatric HIV care
15 March 2011 (PlusNews ), Maria Pelula has looked after two HIV-positive orphans in the past and is now bringing up 12-year-old Adrian*, the orphaned son of a relative, in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. But she still does not know how to tackle the sensitive subject of testing Adrian for HIV.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=92200

TANZANIA: Male circumcision campaign targets 2.8 million
7 February 2011 (PlusNews ), The Tanzanian government has embarked on a large-scale voluntary male circumcision programme aimed at reducing the HIV risk of men and boys in areas of the country with low levels of male circumcision.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=91849

HIV/AIDS: MSM groups hail pill to prevent HIV
24 November 2010 (PlusNews ), Gay rights groups have hailed the results of the first study to show that an antiretroviral (ARV) drug can prevent HIV as an important step in the fight against HIV, but say that in countries that criminalize homosexuality, the breakthrough is unlikely to have a significant impact.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=91180

SOUTHERN AFRICA: HIV prevention for youth - it's complicated
19 November 2010 (PlusNews ), When it comes to understanding what drives HIV infections among young people in southern Africa, the epicentre of the global AIDS pandemic, why not ask young people themselves?
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=91138

EAST AFRICA: CEOs lead by example, take public HIV tests
18 November 2010 (PlusNews ), At least 40 East African chief executive officers (CEOs) recently took public HIV tests, a move designed to show their commitment to fighting HIV in the workplace in an increasingly integrated region.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=91123

HIV/AIDS: Global Fund looks to private sector to fill funding gap
14 October 2010 (PlusNews ), With its coffers running at least US$1 billion short, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is looking to the private sector to fill the funding gap.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=90765

HEALTH: New global plan aims to wipe out TB
14 October 2010 (PlusNews ), A new roadmap for curbing the global epidemic of tuberculosis aims to save five million lives between 2011 and 2015 and eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050 but comes with a price tag of US$47 billion, nearly half of which must still be found.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=90767

EAST AFRICA: Community radio reaches refugees with HIV messages
1 October 2010 (PlusNews ), An FM radio station broadcasting from the western Tanzanian town of Ngara is bringing vital HIV prevention information to thousands of Burundian and Rwandan refugees living in the region.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=90642

TANZANIA: Women caught in crossfire of HIV battle
18 August 2010 (PlusNews ), Regina Joseph was beaten up by a group of young men for "dressing indecently" on her way to the local market in northeastern Tanzania's Mkinga District.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=90207

TANZANIA: Taking the HIV risk out of road crews
8 July 2010 (PlusNews ), An initiative by the Tanzanian government hopes to reduce HIV transmission along the country's expanding road network by targeting construction crews and the communities that surround them.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=89769

EAST AFRICA: Community HIV drug distribution improves adherence
7 July 2010 (PlusNews ), Local East African programmes are discovering the benefits of bringing HIV services closer to rural communities, with mobile drug distribution improving HIV-positive patients' adherence to antiretroviral treatment.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=89757

TANZANIA: Party hearty, but beware of HIV
16 June 2010 (PlusNews ), It is six o'clock in the evening in the village of Mabukweni, in northeastern Tanzania's Mkinga district, where Mbaruku*, 21, is looking forward to celebrating a friend's wedding at an all night party; he is sure he will meet a girl there to have sex with.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=89508

EAST AFRICA: One region, one HIV law
31 March 2010 (PlusNews ), As the East African Community (EAC) becomes more integrated, countries in the region are developing a common HIV Prevention and Management Bill that will establish minimum standards for HIV services in the five states - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88635

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