MONROVIA, 16 February (PLUSNEWS) - Because of men like Patrick Kollie, Carey Street in the heart of Monrovia is not the best place to be at night looking like you might have a bit of cash, a mobile phone or anything else of value that could be snatched in a quick mugging. Full report

MONROVIA, 27 October (PLUSNEWS) - First the good news. Young Liberians know about AIDS, how they might contract the disease and what they can do to protect themselves. Now the bad news. They are not putting that knowledge into practice. Full report

MONROVIA, 21 July (PLUSNEWS) - With health centres reopening across Liberia after 14 years of fighting and AIDS awareness on the rise, Liberia is running out of HIV-testing kits to meet rising demand, according to the government-run National AIDS Control Programme (NACP). Full report

ZWEDRU, 22 June (PLUSNEWS) - When doctors testing blood in this remote town in eastern Liberia discover that a donor is HIV-positive, they keep the information to themselves. There is nothing else they can do. Full report

MONROVIA, 18 April (PLUSNEWS) - Health officials know that AIDS is a serious problem in Liberia, but the government has no money to conduct a proper HIV prevalence survey and specialist treatment for the disease is only available in the capital, Monrovia. Full report

MONROVIA, 9 March (PLUSNEWS) - Now that peace has returned to Liberia, people living with HIV/AIDS are setting their sights on a new fight - the battle to contain the pandemic. Full report

MONROVIA, 15 January (PLUSNEWS - DFID) - Rising levels of reported rape and sexual exploitation of women and teenage girls in Liberia have sparked concern by both the government and women's rights groups. Full report

GANTA, 10 November (PLUSNEWS - DFID) - The bustling commercial town of Ganta, a five-hour drive from the Liberian capital, Monrovia, is emblematic of the AIDS challenge facing the country as it rebuilds after 14 years of civil war. Full report

MONROVIA, 2 October (PLUSNEWS - DFID) - The National Programme to fight AIDS (NACP) in Liberia says it is concerned about the future of programmes distributing antiretroviral (ARV) medicines after a grant from international financing body, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, ends in December. Full report

MONROVIA, 21 September (PLUSNEWS - DFID) - The Liberian government needs to reexamine how it deals with children whose parents are HIV-positive or have died of AIDS, the leader of a local AIDS charity says. Full report

MONROVIA, 8 August (PLUSNEWS - DFID) - HIV/AIDS will be on the curriculum next month for 10,000 Liberian students at the Lutheran Church School System, the third largest church-school network in Liberia, which has made HIV/AIDS education mandatory in its 40 schools. Full report

MONROVIA, 21 April (PLUSNEWS - DFID) - Liberia’s new peacetime government is alarmed at the rapidly rising rate of HIV and AIDS infections, which is now a “serious problem?, according to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Full report