YEMEN: Project helps boost awareness of HIV/AIDS
24 April 2008 (PlusNews ), Samah Riyadh, 20, has been educating people about HIV/AIDS and ways to prevent it since 2005.
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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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YEMEN: "It's tough living with HIV"
26 July 2007 (PlusNews ), For Alawi Bahumaid, 41, who recently lost his job with a Norwegian oil company in Yemen, the bitter struggle of rebuilding his life and looking for a new job starts again. "This is the second time I have lost my job because of my HIV status," he said in the capital, Sanaa. "I had such hopes this time around."
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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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