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Horn of Africa

New HIV policy focuses on HIV in the workplace

ADDIS ABABA, 26 March 2012 (PlusNews) - The government has teamed up with Ethiopia's main employees' and employers' associations to launch a new HIV/AIDS workplace policy that is to be implemented across the nation. full report

ETHIOPIA: Finding space for people with disabilities on HIV agenda

 ADDIS ABABA, 8 March 2012 (PlusNews) - Ethiopians with disabilities say they have been largely excluded from the government's national HIV programmes and are unable to access services. full report

AFRICA: Snake oil salesmen and dodgy HIV "cures"

 NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG, 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. full report

ETHIOPIA: New PMTCT plan needs men

 ADDIS ABABA, 4 January 2012 (PlusNews) - Ethiopia's new plan to eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015 cannot be attained unless men are more meaningfully involved in reproductive health, experts say. full report

HIV/AIDS: Depression "overlooked" in treating HIV patients

 ADDIS ABABA, 7 December 2011 (PlusNews) - HIV patients in Africa frequently suffer shame and depression but the continent’s health systems are ill-equipped to handle the issue, which not only affects their quality of life, but can lead to poor adherence to HIV treatment regimens. full report

HIV/AIDS: MSM meeting stirs controversy at HIV conference

 ADDIS ABABA, 5 December 2011 (PlusNews) - A meeting to address issues around HIV and men who have sex with men went ahead as scheduled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 3 December, despite protests and calls for its cancellation by local religious leaders. full report

KENYA-SOMALIA: Hidden sex work, HIV risk in Dadaab

 DADAAB, 16 September 2011 (PlusNews) - At Ifo trading centre, a short distance from northeastern Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex, Hawa*, a teenage girl, sits in a dark room on an old jerry can holding a small bunch of fresh khat, a mild stimulant, ostensibly for sale. full report

KENYA-SOMALIA: Refugees at risk of sexual violence

 DADAAB, 8 September 2011 (PlusNews) - Amina*, 27, left her home town of Kismayo in south-central Somalia at the end of May for northern Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. The journey took her and her four children 14 days and nearly broke them, but between the famine and the conflict, she was afraid that staying in Somalia could mean death. full report

ETHIOPIA: Food for body and soul

 ADDIS ABABA, 18 August 2011 (PlusNews) - Three years ago, Munit* was hungry, lonely and HIV-positive; her husband refused to be tested and she felt burdened by her secret status, unable to share her daily struggles with friends and family. full report

HORN OF AFRICA: Drought and HIV - a dangerous combination

 NAIROBI, 28 July 2011 (PlusNews) - More than 11.6 million people are facing starvation in the Horn of Africa, and as aid agencies struggle to feed them, experts are warning that a lack of food could have wider consequences, including jeopardizing the health of people on HIV treatment. full report
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