| ZIMBABWE: Cash transfers target vulnerable children |
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HARARE، 31/5/2011 (PlusNews) - Orphans and vulnerable children in 10 of Zimbabwe's poorest districts will start benefiting from a government scheme to help them go to school, have enough to eat and access medical care. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Nonqaba Jacobs, "She says it's from Satan that you are positive" |
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KHAYELITSHA، 31/5/2011 (PlusNews) - Nonqaba Jacobs, 28, comes from a rural community outside East London; both parents were HIV-positive and she tested positive in 2004. In 2005 she moved to Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, where she found treatment and attitudes towards HIV to be a world away from what she experienced in the Eastern Cape. These days she is doing well, but is worried about her mother, who has gone off her antiretrovirals in favour of "faith healing" at the Christ Embassy church. full report |
| HIV/AIDS: Young people at highest risk of HIV infection |
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JOHANNESBURG، 2/6/2011 (PlusNews) - That young people are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS is well established, but a new report reveals for the first time new data on HIV prevalence in this group, which accounts for almost half of new adult infections globally. full report |
| HIV/AIDS: Thirty years of HIV |
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NAIROBI، 3/6/2011 (PlusNews) - It is three decades since the first HIV case was reported and in that time, an estimated 30 million people have died, another 34 million are living with the virus and an estimated 7,000 new infections occur every day. But it is not all bad news - according to a new report by UNAIDS, a record 1.4 million people started antiretroviral drugs in 2010, and the global rate of new HIV infections declined by nearly 25 percent between 2001 and 2009. full report |
| HIV/AIDS: The future of HIV diagnostics |
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NAIROBI، 3/6/2011 (PlusNews) - As the number of people receiving HIV treatment continues to rise - 6.6 million people were taking antiretroviral drugs by December 2010 – it is important to ensure the technology to test and monitor patients on ARVs be made simpler, cheaper and more easily available to high prevalence, low-income countries, say experts. full report |