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Concerns over HIV/AIDS funding cuts

ADDIS ABABA, 9 January 2013 (PlusNews) - Major projected cuts in US government funding for Ethiopia’s health sector could greatly undermine the progress the country has made in the fight against HIV, authorities and experts say. full report

EAST AFRICA: Sex workers need help too

NAIROBI, 19 October 2012 (PlusNews) - In humanitarian emergencies impoverished women may turn to sex work as a way of feeding themselves and their families; without the usual health services and given the often low education of those involved, sex is frequently unprotected, exposing them and their clients to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. full report

ETHIOPIA: Safe water critical to health of HIV-positive people

ADDIS ABABA, 27 August 2012 (PlusNews) - Beletu Hailemariam, 32, is HIV-positive and knows she should avoid contracting opportunistic infections that could further compromise her immune system. But she lives in one of poorer suburbs of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and has to share a toilet with dozens of people and walk long distances to access clean water. A year ago, she was diagnosed with typhoid. full report

ETHIOPIA: HIV prevention services for those most at risk

ADDIS ABABA, 12 June 2012 (PlusNews) - More than 100 million condoms will be distributed annually to sex workers, men who have sex with men and other groups vulnerable to HIV as part of a new five-year programme to be run by the Ethiopian government and the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). full report

ETHIOPIA: HIV testing numbers rising steadily

ADDIS ABABA, 5 June 2012 (PlusNews) - Successful HIV testing campaigns in Ethiopia are showing a ten-fold jump in the number of people testing each year since 2005. full report

ETHIOPIA: 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
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