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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Male circumcision - what's the latest?
23 June 2009 (PlusNews ), It has been two years since the World Health Organization recommended male circumcision (MC) as an HIV prevention measure, and countries in Southern Africa - the region hardest-hit by AIDS - have been slowly gearing up to provide widespread access to the procedure.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84950

GLOBAL: Promising new drug to treat TB
17 June 2009 (PlusNews ), For the first time in nearly half a century, the world may be on the verge of adding a new drug to its arsenal against tuberculosis (TB) – one that would not only drastically improve the treatment of TB and its multidrug-resistant strains, but also shorten it.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84888

GLOBAL: Economic crisis no excuse to cut funds - UN
17 June 2009 (PlusNews ), International donors must continue meeting their commitments to HIV/AIDS, even in the face of the economic downturn, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84887

GLOBAL: HIV, the silent partner in emergencies
10 June 2009 (PlusNews ), Food aid and plastic sheeting are the hallmarks of every disaster, but not always condoms and antiretrovirals, even though humanitarian agencies recognize the link between emergencies and the increased risk of HIV and AIDS.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84795

GLOBAL: Earlier ARV treatment saves lives
10 June 2009 (PlusNews ), Findings from a clinical trial in Haiti bring the first conclusive evidence that HIV-positive people in developing countries have a significantly better chance of survival if they start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment earlier.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84791

GLOBAL: Basic healthcare crucial to beating HIV, study
27 May 2009 (PlusNews ), Providing HIV prevention, care and treatment services at well-equipped local clinics could be the key to success in fighting the pandemic in the developing world, a new report by the international anti-poverty NGO, ActionAid, has said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84567

ZIMBABWE: HIV-positive nurses go it alone
15 May 2009 (PlusNews ), For the past year, Olive Mutabeni's home in Chitungwiza, a low-income suburb 20km outside Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, has been the makeshift centre of operations for the Life Empowerment Support Organisation (LESO).
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84410

ZIMBABWE: Neglected health crisis on farms
13 May 2009 (PlusNews ), It is harvest time in Zimbabwe's northern Mashonaland Central Province, but the only thing growing on most of the farms around Bindura, the provincial capital, is tall grass.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84366

ZIMBABWE: The long road to recovery
11 May 2009 (PlusNews ), From his office in the vast, run-down health ministry building in Harare, the capital, Dr Henry Madzorera, Zimbabwe's new health minister, has the unenviable task of resuscitating a public health system crippled by the country's prolonged economic crisis.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84331

GLOBAL: Obama expands health agenda, but not funding
8 May 2009 (PlusNews ), At a time when many Americans are preoccupied with the economic crisis on their doorsteps, President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve US$63 billion for global health over the next six years.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84297

ZIMBABWE: What price a CD4 test?
7 May 2009 (PlusNews ), At the Opportunistic Infections Clinic at Parirenyatwa Hospital, the largest referral facility in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, a group of 30 HIV-positive patients are having the first of four counselling sessions on staying healthy by eating a balanced diet, disclosing to family members and avoiding cigarettes and alcohol.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84274

GLOBAL: Economic downturn puts treatment of millions at risk
29 April 2009 (PlusNews ), After months of speculation about how the global economic downturn might affect HIV/AIDS programmes, a new World Bank report details the projected aftermath of the crisis and how it could place the treatment of more than 1.7 million at risk by year's end.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84171

GLOBAL: Real men don’t cry – or do they?
20 April 2009 (PlusNews ), Men don't cry. Men take risks. Men don't ask for help. Men are strong. Men have many sexual partners. These stereotypes of masculinity are contributing to the spread of HIV throughout the world, experts warned at a recent symposium on men and boys.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83991

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Universal access - the race is on!
3 April 2009 (PlusNews ), The race is on for countries in Southern Africa to meet their targets of providing universal access to care, treatment and prevention by 2010. But will they make it?
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83776

SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Cross-border healthcare response needed
3 April 2009 (PlusNews ), As over 4,000 delegates convened in the port city of Durban this week to talk about how to improve South Africa’s HIV/AIDS response, a sobering presentation on Thursday reminded them that just across the border in Zimbabwe, people living with HIV lacked even the most basic services.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83780

GLOBAL: Prevention the best medicine for TB
26 March 2009 (PlusNews ), Findings from an ongoing South African study into preventative tuberculosis (TB) therapy suggest that prevention really may be the best medicine.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83665

GLOBAL: TB and HIV co-infection crisis a bigger threat
24 March 2009 (PlusNews ), One in four tuberculosis (TB) deaths in the world is HIV-related, twice as many as previously thought, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83625

ZIMBABWE: Health crisis whacks TB efforts
24 March 2009 (PlusNews ), By the time Tichaona Paraziva, 49, tested HIV positive at the end of 2006 he was already in need of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, but there was a waiting list for the free government programme and on a teacher's salary he could not afford to buy medicines in the private sector. He was still on the waiting list in March 2008 when he fell ill and was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB).
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83603

GLOBAL: Rape survivors need better emergency care - MSF
9 March 2009 (PlusNews ), People who have suffered sexual violence in countries facing humanitarian crises need much more accessible, comprehensive and confidential care than is currently available, says a new report by the international medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83383

GLOBAL: HIV incidence rising in 50+ age group
3 March 2009 (PlusNews ), The number of older people with HIV may be increasing worldwide, but doctors seldom consider screening them for HIV, thus delaying diagnosis, according to an article in the World Health Organisation's March Bulletin.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83270

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