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ISINGIRO, 29 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Health workers manning five health centres in two refugee camps in the southwestern Ugandan district of Isingiro say they are overwhelmed by the high number of refugees and local residents in need of HIV services. full report
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NAIROBI, 27 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - A new survey of commercial sex work in Kenya, the first to include male sex workers, has revealed that 40 percent of female and male commercial sex workers are in marriages or stable unions.
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ADDIS ABABA, 8 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Ethiopians with disabilities say they have been largely excluded from the government's national HIV programmes and are unable to access services.
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BANGKOK, 9 February 2012 (PlusNews Global) - While a number of Asian and Pacific countries are addressing legal barriers to accessing HIV information and treatment, there is still a gap between policy and implementation, say officials.
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NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG, 19 January 2012 (PlusNews Global) - 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.
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DAR ES SALAAM, 18 January 2012 (PlusNews Global) - The demand for medical male circumcision is growing among Tanzania's non-circumcising communities, and officials say the country is on track to surpass its goal of reaching 2.8 million men by 2015.
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KISUMU, 16 January 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Involving men is increasingly being promoted as a key element in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and while its benefits are well-documented - in one Kenyan study it reduced the risks of vertical transmission and infant mortality by more than 40 percent compared with no involvement - it can occasionally lead to domestic discord and even violence.
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ADDIS ABABA, 4 January 2012 (PlusNews Global) - 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.
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NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG, 29 December 2011 (PlusNews Global) - It's been a roller coaster of a year in HIV and AIDS. AIDS turned 30 in 2011, and with new evidence of the effectiveness of HIV treatment as prevention, experts are increasingly talking about "the end of AIDS". At the same time, however, funding for HIV has become ever more uncertain, jeopardizing efforts to put new, life-saving science into action.
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NAIROBI, 27 December 2011 (PlusNews Global) - From scientific breakthroughs to herbal "cures", HIV was never far from the headlines in 2011.
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