| HIV/AIDS: Bold new goal for 2020 set at UN AIDS summit |
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NEW YORK، 13/6/2011 (PlusNews) - The United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS was nothing if not bold. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a global commitment to eliminate AIDS by 2020. “That is our goal – zero new infections, zero stigma and zero AIDS-related deaths,” Ban said to a round of applause at the UN General Assembly last week in New York. full report |
| MALAWI: Local myths stall paediatric HIV treatment |
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JOHANNESBURG، 14/6/2011 (PlusNews) - Local understanding of children’s immune systems may be delaying access to paediatric HIV treatment, according to a study at a rural clinic in northern Malawi, where just 15 percent of children in need of antiretrovirals (ARVs) are receiving the drugs. full report |
| KENYA: Rural MSM too afraid to access HIV health services |
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LANJUERA، 14/6/2011 (PlusNews) - Discriminatory laws and a largely homophobic society mean that men who have sex with men in Kenya generally find it difficult to access HIV-related information and health services, but rural MSM have an especially hard time. full report |
| ETHIOPIA: Five-year project to benefit OVC |
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ADDIS ABABA، 16/6/2011 (PlusNews) - Kokobe Abate is a widow struggling to raise her daughter Almaz in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The death of her husband hit the family hard, but he had given up on life long before he died. full report |
| AFRICA: New light shed on male sex work |
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JOHANNESBURG، 20/6/2011 (PlusNews) - Commercial sex work, dominated by a focus on women, could be redefined as new research launched today in Nairobi, Kenya, sheds light on the complicated HIV prevention needs of what may be Africa’s most deeply underground group at high risk of HIV - male sex workers. full report |
| KENYA: Poor adherence threatens paediatric ARV programme |
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NAIROBI، 21/6/2011 (PlusNews) - As Kenya puts more HIV-positive children on life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs, experts are warning that unless more effort is put into ensuring the medicines are taken regularly, widespread treatment failure could result. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: AIDS conspiracy believers less likely to condomise |
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DURBAN، 22/6/2011 (PlusNews) - Thirty years after the discovery of AIDS, conspiracy theories that posit the virus as man-made continue to enjoy support among a segment of South African youth - and these beliefs may be putting them at greater risk of HIV infection. full report |
| HIV/AIDS: New guidelines on HIV programming for MSM |
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NAIROBI، 22/6/2011 (PlusNews) - HIV and gay rights activists say new guidelines released by the UN World Health Organization on HIV programming for men who have sex with men will not only improve health service provision for MSM, but will also act as an advocacy tool in the fight for the rights of this marginalized population. full report |