| AFRICA: Need for systematic HIV drug resistance testing |
![]() NAIROBI, 8 February 2011 (PlusNews) - HIV is a tough enough diagnosis, but when one contracts a strain of HIV resistant to some life-prolonging medicines, treatment options are limited. A new study has found that transmitted HIV drug resistance may be on the rise in Africa, and the authors warn that unless resistance surveillance is increased, the continent's treatment programmes could suffer.
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| EAST AFRICA: Sex workers enticed or forced into unprotected sex |
![]() NAIROBI/BUJUMBURA, 10 January 2011 (PlusNews) - Sex workers operating in East Africa are generally aware of the HIV risks of unprotected sex, but for many of them, the extra cash incentive clients often offer for sex without a condom is worth the risk.
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| HIV/AIDS: MSM groups hail pill to prevent HIV |
![]() NAIROBI, 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.
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| EAST AFRICA: CEOs lead by example, take public HIV tests |
![]() KAMPALA, 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.
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| HEALTH: New global plan aims to wipe out TB |
![]() JOHANNESBURG, 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.
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| HIV/AIDS: Global Fund looks to private sector to fill funding gap |
![]() JOHANNESBURG, 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.
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| EAST AFRICA: Community radio reaches refugees with HIV messages |
![]() NGARA, 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.
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| BURUNDI: HIV-positive people struggling for treatment of opportunistic infections |
![]() BUJUMBURA, 11 August 2010 (PlusNews) - Thousands of Burundians living with HIV are failing to obtain drugs to treat opportunistic infections since a system to provide them with free medical care has come to an end.
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| RWANDA: People with disabilities left out of condom campaign |
![]() KIGALI, 9 April 2010 (PlusNews) - Rwanda's recent national condom awareness campaign failed to include messages designed for people with disabilities, something experts say is a mistake, as they are often equally at risk of HIV as the rest of the population.
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| DRC: Funding crunch threatens ARV rollout |
![]() NAIROBI, 7 April 2010 (PlusNews) - With large donor projects winding up and little bilateral support for HIV programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country is facing the possibility of ARV shortages and rising HIV mortality, say aid workers.
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