| BURUNDI: Displaced women in Bujumbura risk HIV rather than hunger |
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BUJUMBURA، 26/4/2011 (PlusNews) - Desperate and displaced, some Burundian women will do anything, including have unprotected sex for money, to escape the dreadful living conditions in the Bujumbura suburb of Sabe, where more than 480 families of internally displaced persons have lived for several years. full report |
| KENYA: Steady progress in infant AIDS vaccine trial |
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NAIROBI، 27/4/2011 (PlusNews) - Infants enrolled in October 2010 in an HIV vaccine trial are doing well, say researchers in Kenya. full report |
| KENYA: Fight against child sex tourism needs a boost |
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MOMBASA، 28/4/2011 (PlusNews) - When police in Kenya's coastal tourist city of Mombasa conduct night raids, it is not unusual for a large number of sex workers arrested to be under 18. full report |
| SOMALIA: Stigma, insecurity hold back HIV fight in Mogadishu |
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MOGADISHU، 3/5/2011 (PlusNews) - Residents of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, are understandably more concerned with dodging bullets than avoiding HIV, but this lack of knowledge means widespread ignorance about HIV prevention, while people who are HIV-positive are often ostracized by their communities. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Queen Tinyiko Nwamitwa-Shilubana, "People didn't want to come out" |
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JOHANNESBURG، 4/5/2011 (PlusNews) - Queen Tinyiko Nwamitwa-Shilubana has often found herself at the crossroads of South African history and has helped usher in democracy and expand women's rights. She has also helped define the role of traditional leaders in the fight against HIV. full report |
| KENYA: PMTCT could cause drug resistance in positive infants |
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KISUMU، 6/5/2011 (PlusNews) - Drug regimens used in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV are effective, but infants should be monitored for drug resistance, a new study has revealed. full report |
| UGANDA: Sex workers pay the price for HIV prevention gaps |
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KAMPALA، 9/5/2011 (PlusNews) - Uganda is short on data on HIV among the country's sex workers, but a new study shows that in the capital, Kampala, HIV prevalence among female sex workers could be more than four times the city's average prevalence. full report |
| MALAWI: Queer Malawi lifts the gay curtain |
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JOHANNESBURG، 11/5/2011 (PlusNews) - Africa is generally not a safe place to have a same-sex relationship - you can be shunned by society, beaten up, thrown in jail, or worse. In Malawi you can get 14 years in prison with hard labour. full report |
| KENYA: Outrage over "cash for contraception" offer to HIV-positive women |
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KAKAMEGA، 12/5/2011 (PlusNews) - The Kenyan government and rights groups have expressed outrage at a project in western Kenya that is paying HIV-positive women to undergo long-term contraception. full report |
| HIV/AIDS: ARVs as prevention must move quickly "from science to action" |
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NAIROBI، 13/5/2011 (PlusNews) - A landmark study showing major reductions in HIV transmission among discordant couples due to early treatment may fail to have a significant impact on HIV prevention unless governments and donors are willing to turn the science into action, HIV advocates say. full report |