| COTE D'IVOIRE: Political crisis affects supply of ARVs |
![]() ABIDJAN, 4 February 2011 (PlusNews) - As Côte d'Ivoire's political stalemate drags on, NGOs are becoming increasingly concerned about its effect on the supply of life-prolonging antiretroviral medicines.
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| GLOBAL: More health workers needed to achieve HIV/AIDS targets |
![]() BANGKOK, 2 February 2011 (PlusNews) - With the current number of health workers worldwide, most developing countries will not be able to achieve Millennium Development Goal 6, which includes universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment by 2015, according to a 2011 World Health Organization (WHO) report which reviewed progress in five countries.
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| ZAMBIA: How to build a lab in a shipping container |
![]() LUSAKA, 1 February 2011 (PlusNews) - A tiny laboratory capable of doing big things is what Barry Kosloff, working with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, has created - a new type of high-tech, low-cost, tuberculosis (TB) lab in a shipping container. He walked IRIN/PlusNews through what it takes to build one.
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| KENYA: Fidelity campaigns could take years to see results |
![]() NAIROBI, 1 February 2011 (PlusNews) - Your secret lover probably has a secret lover - Kenyans regularly hear this message through a campaign aimed at reducing the high rate of new infections occurring within marriage.
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| HIV/AIDS: Falling foul of the Fund |
![]() JOHANNESBURG, 31 January 2011 (PlusNews) - A recent flurry of news reports on fraud in grants made by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has thrown the spotlight on the extent to which graft in recipient countries plagues the funding body.
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| KENYA: Outrage as minister suggests isolating HIV-positive people |
![]() NAIROBI, 31 January 2011 (PlusNews) - AIDS activists are demanding a full apology from a Kenyan cabinet minister who recently suggested that isolating HIV-positive people may be the way to eradicate the pandemic.
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| HIV/AIDS: Five countries to watch in 2011 |
![]() NAIROBI, 28 January 2011 (PlusNews) - Things are generally more positive on the global HIV front: the number of new infections is down, treatment figures are up and headway is being made in the fight to end discrimination against people living with HIV.
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| UGANDA: Murder of gay activist "needs urgent investigation" |
![]() NAIROBI, 27 January 2011 (PlusNews) - Gay Ugandans say they are living in fear after the murder of David Kato, a prominent gay activist who opposed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill submitted to parliament in 2009.
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| ZAMBIA: Better health comes in containers |
![]() LUSAKA, 26 January 2011 (PlusNews) - New technologies are helping Zambia make the most of its scarce health workers and laboratories in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), and showing that there may be more to a container than meets the eye.
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| KENYA: Catholics divided over Pope's condom comments |
![]() NAIROBI, 21 January 2011 (PlusNews) - Following the Pope's comments in a 2010 book to the effect that condom use may be permissible by HIV-positive sex workers to prevent HIV infection, many Roman Catholic Kenyans have found themselves at odds with their church leaders, who have retained their firm stance against condom use.
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