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GLOBAL: Planes, trains and travel bans
28 November 2008 (PlusNews ), In 2002, illicit arms dealer Aleksic Jovan flew more than 200 tons of weapons in war-torn Liberia, contributing to a conflict estimated to have killed about 250,000 people. Years ago, Linda Kisuna’s husband contracted a sexually transmitted disease. What do they have in common? Both Jovan and Kisuna's husband have been denied entry to countries across the world.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81726

GLOBAL: Universal HIV testing could eliminate HIV within a decade - WHO
27 November 2008 (PlusNews ), Universal HIV testing and immediate antiretroviral (ARV) drugs could reduce new infections in high-prevalence countries by as much as 95 percent within ten years, according to a new study by scientists from the UN World Health Organisation (WHO).
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81701

ZIMBABWE: Health system in crisis
25 November 2008 (PlusNews ), Stanley Takaona, deputy president of the Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Activist Union, has spent the past month volunteering at two state hospitals in the capital, Harare, after health workers began a work stoppage that has virtually closed both facilities, leaving hundreds of people without medical assistance.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81646

GLOBAL: We can save more babies, say researchers
20 November 2008 (PlusNews ), A ground-breaking South African study has provided the first hard evidence that treating HIV-positive babies with antiretroviral (ARV) medicines from as early as six weeks dramatically improves their chances of survival.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81578

ZIMBABWE: Surviving as an HIV-positive teacher
17 November 2008 (PlusNews ), Memory Motsi* rents a room in Chitungwiza, about 20km from the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. She wakes up at five in the morning to get to work on time at the school where she teaches Grade 5 in Hatfield, a suburb in the city, because the poor salaries in education sector, totally outpaced by hyperinflation, mean she can no longer afford the bus fare to and from work.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81506

ZIMBABWE: Not enough cash for ARVs or food
13 November 2008 (PlusNews ), George Mumba, 24, an accountant in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, is among the thousands of people whose situation has been drastically affected by hyperinflation, because customers cannot withdraw enough cash from the bank to buy what they need.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81441

ZIMBABWE: Relief as Global Fund grants approval
12 November 2008 (PlusNews ), After a week of drama and suspense, HIV/AIDS activists in Zimbabwe welcomed with relief the decision by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to award the country a US$169 million grant.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81435

ZIMBABWE: Global Fund deadline missed
6 November 2008 (PlusNews ), The future of Zimbabwe's AIDS programmes hangs in the balance after the government failed to meet the deadline of Thursday 6 November to return over US$7 million to the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81337

GLOBAL: Falling foul of the Fund
4 November 2008 (PlusNews ), The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed in 2001 for the purpose of setting up an innovative approach to providing finance to combat the three diseases that kill more than six million people worldwide every year.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81295

ZIMBABWE: Even a short prison sentence could mean death
31 October 2008 (PlusNews ), Zimbabwe's prison walls have not insulated inmates from the effects of the country's economic meltdown. A recent report has warned that the nation's 55 prisons have become "death traps", with conditions deteriorating rapidly and diseases spreading even faster.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81228

ZIMBABWE: Possibility of Global Fund money lifts mood
24 October 2008 (PlusNews ), Excitement is mounting in Zimbabwe with the news that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has found the country's Round 8 application for funding "technically sound", and has recommended that the grant be approved.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81108

ZIMBABWE: Absent government puts burden of care on youth
20 October 2008 (PlusNews ), For almost six months now, John Mberi*, 14, from the high-density suburb of Mufakose in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, has been taking care of his sick mother, Fortunate, who returned home from neighbouring South Africa very ill.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81006

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Is the pen mightier than the virus?
16 October 2008 (PlusNews ), Isn't it time that journalists started taking HIV/AIDS beyond the newsroom and into the bedroom? In many newsrooms the highly politicised topic of HIV/AIDS remains just that - political. Journalists aren't immune to HIV/AIDS; they just don't talk about it.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80955

ZIMBABWE: Activists shout from the sidelines
8 October 2008 (PlusNews ), The new board of Zimbabwe's National AIDS Council (NAC) has a glaring omission: not one member is living openly with the HI-virus. AIDS activists have slammed the move, describing it as "discriminatory" and a step backwards in the fight against the epidemic.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80819

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Skipping class, skipping treatment
30 September 2008 (PlusNews ), Adjusting to college or university life can be rough – moving into residence, living with roommates, balancing academic demands with those of a social life. Now try taking your antiretroviral (ARV) medication without the whole world knowing you're positive, and things get even more complicated. Disclosing to fellow students and lecturers can help, but is by no means a cure-all.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80673

ZIMBABWE: New government gives HIV-positive people hope
29 September 2008 (PlusNews ), AIDS activists are hoping that the country's new administration will make good on promises to urgently improve access to affordable HIV/AIDS treatment and services at state hospitals.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80651

SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Gift Mangwende: "I resolved to create relationships that were not that strong"
26 September 2008 (PlusNews ), Gift Mangwende was diagnosed with HIV less than a year before starting his first year at the University of Zimbabwe in 2004. Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment brought him back from what he described as "a point of no return", but trying to take the drugs without his new classmates and lecturers noticing put his newly regained health at risk.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80619

GLOBAL: Leadership determines AIDS performance
25 September 2008 (PlusNews ), As South Africa prepared to swear in a new president on 25 September after the dramatic ousting of Thabo Mbeki four days before, attempts by commentators to summarise the former president's mixed legacy have not failed to mention his controversial stance on AIDS.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80597

ZIMBABWE: Union provides free ARVs to journalists
4 September 2008 (PlusNews ), The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), which represents journalists in the country, has launched a programme to provide life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to its HIV-positive members.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80171

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.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79150

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