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Last Updated     27/07/2010    12:44:00
World Cup 'inspires hope, confidence among African nations'
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The just-ended FIFA World Cup, held in Africa for the f irst time ever, has inspired hope and confidence among African nations that they have the capaci ty to deal with the continent's challenges of development, according to African Union Commissioner f or Social Affairs Bience Gawanas.    27/07/2010   full text...
Global Funds, partners tackle HIV/AIDS scourge with US$ 150m
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Global Fund’s largest private-sector contributor, PRODUCT-RED, has approved a funding of US$ 150 million to support Global Fund HIV and AIDS programmes in Rwanda, Lesotho, Swaziland, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa, the Global Fund announced on Tuesday.    01/06/2010   full text...
HRW calls on Zambian leaders to condemn homophobic statements
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said the recent homophobic statements by religious leaders and government authorities risk undermining Zamb i aâ?s fight against HIV/AIDS.    21/05/2010   full text...
Malawi sentence will set back AIDS response, says Global Fund
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The conviction and sentencing of two men in Malawi based on their sexual orientation presents a serious threat to the country’s AIDS response, the Global Fund warned Friday.    21/05/2010   full text...
Nigeria's AIDS agency seeks tax to bridge funding gap
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has urged the federal government to introduce an 'HIV/AIDS tax' to help bridge f unding, the private Guardian newspaper reported Friday.    21/05/2010   full text...
HRW to Uganda: Remove discriminatory provisions from HIV/AIDS bill
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Uganda’s parliament should amend a proposed law on HIV/AIDS to remove punitive and discriminatory provisions and to ensure that the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS are protected, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday, after the controversial bill was introduced.    20/05/2010   full text...
US, Tanzania launch medication assisted therapy for drug users
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The United States in collaboration with the Tanzanian government Monday announced the establishment of the first Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) programme for drug users in sub-Saharan Africa, a crucial part of HIV control that allows addicts to return to a regular, productive and healthier life.    17/05/2010   full text...
Social enterprise, PEPAL, targets Uganda's marginalized communities
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Social enterprise, PEPAL, announced on Wednesday it had teamed up with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to bring its Innovation Programme to sub-Saharan Africa to develop projects that would impact lives of marginalized communities.    05/05/2010   full text...
US double financial aid to fight endemic diseases in Angola
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The United States assistance to Angola in 2010 has increased from US$ 18 million to US$ 32 million per year for the fight against malaria while for the HIV/AIDS it reached US$ 17 million from the previous US$ 7 million, the US ambassador to the country, Dan Mozena, said Wednesday.    05/05/2010   full text...
Global Fund Board confirms new funding round for HIV/AIDS
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will, on 20 May, launch another round of proposals which could be key for countries to continue making progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).    03/05/2010   full text...
UN agencies hold conference on HIV prevention in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The United Nations Development Fund For Women (UNIFEM),in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has concluded arrangements to hold a conference on HIV Prevention and Cultural Challenges for women in Nigeria, organizers said in a statement here.    03/05/2010   full text...
Benin to spend more than 15 billion FCFA for AIDS control this year
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – Benin has allocated more than 15 billion FCFA for AIDS control in 2009, up from 11 billion FCFA in 2008, according to a report on the assessment of resources and expenses on AIDS.    29/04/2010   full text...
IOM initiates HIV/AIDS awareness programme in Somalia
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The International Office of Migration (IOM) has unveiled a two-year HIV/AIDS awareness programme aimed at vulnerable populations in Somalia.    14/04/2010   full text...
Zambian female AIDS activist honoured for leadership qualities
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The United Nations special envoy for AIDS in Africa, Eli zabeth Mataka, has earned some international awards, including scholarships for Z ambian students, for her contributions to women and leadership development.    13/04/2010   full text...
International Military HIV/AIDS Conference opens in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Government leaders must understand the challeng e posed by HIV/AIDS to every nation's security, and then act to overcome that ch a llenge, US Ambassador to Tanzania, Alfonso E. Lenhardt, said Monday at the openi n g of the 2010 International Military HIV/AIDS Conference in Arusha, Tanzania.    12/04/2010   full text...
AU aids Burundian, Ugandan landslide victims
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has set aside US$ 500,000 to assist victims of a massive landslide which killed 350 people in Uganda and d i splaced some 700 families.    09/04/2010   full text...
Libya, UNDP sign agreement on AIDS prevention
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre for the Prevention and Control of Transmitted and Endemic Diseases and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement for the implementation of a project ai med at curbing the transmission of AIDS.    31/03/2010   full text...
86 Nigerian technical aids corps members arrive Gambia
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Head of Chancery, Nigerian High Commission in the Gambia , Mr. Obase B. Okongor, has confirmed the arrival of the 2010 first batch of the Nigerian Technical Service team on a technical mission support to The Gambia in various fields, ranging from education, health, agriculture and others.    29/03/2010   full text...
Donors assess Global Fund needs ahead of New York conference
New York, US (PANA) - Donors to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria gathered in the Netherlands on Wednesday for a two-day meeting to assess funding needs for the 2011-2013 period, ahead of a pledging conference at UN the headquarters in New York in October.    25/03/2010   full text...
Global Fund grants Burundi US$ 135m to fight HIV/AIDS
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi will receive a grant of US$ 135 million over the next five years, under the eighth round of the Global Fund to Fight HIV /AI D S, Tuberculosis and Malaria, official sources said in Bujumbura.    24/03/2010   full text...
HIV/AIDS prevalence rate remains high in EAC armed forces
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The security of citizens of the East African Community (EAC) will best be guaranteed by securing the health of members of the armed forces of the EAC partner states, according to Rwanda's Defence Minister, General Marcel Gatsinzi.    23/03/2010   full text...
Nigerian state governor, other officials undergo HIV test
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - To encourage the over 10 million residents of Lagos state to know their HIV status,the state governor, Babatunde Fashola, and members of his cabinet were Monday tested for HIV/AIDS test.    22/03/2010   full text...
Over 100,000 women may be infected with HIV/AIDS
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - An Angolan medical doctor said on Friday that at least 109,376 Angolan women aged over 15 years and above may be infected with HIV/ AIDS, with an estimated prevalence rate of 3.1 per cent in pregnant women.    19/03/2010   full text...
16,000 people receiving ARV treatment in Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - About 16,080 people, including 7,210 women and 8,870 men are receiving anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in Rwanda, while only half of children HIV-positive are getting triple therapy to withstand the pandemic, official sources in Kigali told PANA Friday.    19/03/2010   full text...
AIDS programme official released on bail in Mauritania
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA)- The former Executive Secretary of Mauritania's National Programme to Fight HIV/AIDS, Dr. Abdallahi Ould Horma, who had been in detention with some of his colleagues since October 2009 for embezzlement, was released on bail by the court on Thursday, judicial sources told PANA.    19/03/2010   full text...
Angola recorded 250,000 fresh HIV cases in 2009 - official
Lisbon, Portugal (PANA) - Some 254,471 new HIV/AIDS cases were recorded in Angola in 2009, according to the country's HIV/AIDS Czar.    19/03/2010   full text...
Benghazi AIDS conference wants stigma against HIV-infected people stopped
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The first international conference on HIV/AIDS ended Wednesday in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, with a call on the people to fight against stigmatization and seek ways of re-integrating HIV-positive patients into the society.    18/03/2010   full text...
Japanese company commits US$ 10m to fight HIV/AID 2010-2019
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. (Takeda), Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, on Wednesday announced a huge financial commitment to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa to the tune of 100,000,000 (approximately US$ 1 million) annually for the period 2010-2019.    18/03/2010   full text...
Yaounde hosts seminar on AIDS control in Central Africa
Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - About 30 participants from Central Africa on Tuesday began a four-day seminar in Yaounde on HIV/AIDS that seeks to put the availability of anti-retroviral drugs at centre stage.    17/03/2010   full text...
Civil society groups demand more commitment in AIDS war
Lisbon, Portugal (PANA) - Civil society associations involved in the fight again st HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases within the Portuguese Speaking Com m unity (PLP) have appealed to their respective governments for more assistance in the war against the virus.    16/03/2010   full text...
African govts urged to fight HIV/AIDS through schools
Dakar Senegal (PANA) , The coordinator of the African Network of Education for Health (RAES), the Senegalese Fara Diaw, has called on African governments to us e the schools as a tool of fighting HIV/AIDS.    16/03/2010   full text...
Benghazi hosts int'l conference on fight against AIDS
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - An international conference on AIDS, organized by the C entre for Endemic Diseases and Immunology of Benghazi, in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Libya, began Monday at the Medical Centre of Bengahazi (1,050 kilometres East of Tripoli).    15/03/2010   full text...
40-man squad to present Angola's case at 3rd CPLP congress on HIV/AIDS
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Member countries of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) will meet Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal's capital, as part of t he third congress of CPLP on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, PANA r eported from here Sunday.    14/03/2010   full text...
US provides over US$ 1.65 billion to combat HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania and the US have signed a five-year par tnership framework agreement in support of the East African countryâ?s response to HIV/AIDS during the period 2009-2013.    05/03/2010   full text...
HIV prevention, treatment not accessible to migrant workers in Southern Africa
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Migrant workers in Southern Africa have relativ ely low and inadequate access to HIV prevention and treatment services, although they have high vulnerability to infection, according to a new study by the Inter n ational Office of Migration (IOM).    03/03/2010   full text...
Nigeria records 1,000 new HIV infections daily, says UNAIDS
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has said that Nigeria records at least 1,000 new HIV infections every day, the p r ivately-owned Punch newspaper reported Thursday.    26/02/2010   full text...
Nigerian leader meets with UNAID official over HIV/AIDS
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, said here Monda y that Nigeria was ready to partner and cooperate with relevant agencies with a v iew to stemming the HIV/AIDS pandemic.    22/02/2010   full text...
Malawi to put 500,000 on ARVs in 2010
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi plans to increase the number of HIV positive pe ople on the national life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARVs) programme from 270,0 0 0 to 500,000 in 2010, Vice-President Joyce Banda has disclosed.    15/02/2010   full text...
France's first Lady to visit Benin Tuesday
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Carla Bruni Sarkozy, France's first lady and ambassador of the world fund against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, is expected in Cotonou, the capital of Benin Republic, on Tuesday for a two-day working visit.    22/01/2010   full text...
Persons living with HIV demonstrate in Kinshasa
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - About 500 persons living with HIV/AIDS on Tuesday demonstrated in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, to demand easier the access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARV).    19/01/2010   full text...
'Kenya will not relent on fight against AIDS'
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya Government has stepped up the fight against HI V/AIDS to reduce its prevalence rate in the country, President Mwai Kibaki said late Tuesday.    13/01/2010   full text...
Gambian president celebrates HIV/AIDS treatment Programme
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, has said the thir d anniversary of his Presidential Treatment Programme following his controversi a l â?HIV/AIDS cure discoveryâ?, will be held 17 January at his native village of Kanilai, which lies about 100 km South/East of Banjul City, PANA reported Tuesd a y.    12/01/2010   full text...
'MVP halts mother-to-child HIV infections in Africa'
New York, US (PANA) - United Nations said on Monday that its Millennium Villages Projects (MVP) had helped to drastically reduce mother-to-child HIV transmissio n s across Africa.    11/01/2010   full text...
2,000 AIDS activists for CAN 2010
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Some 2,000 AIDS activists will use the occasion of the 2 010 Africa Cup of Nations opening in Angola Sunday to carry out awareness campaign about the disea se.    08/01/2010   full text...
Global fund grants 19b F CFA to Mali against AIDS
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed an agreement in Bamako totalling about 19 billion F CFA (9.82 million euros) as part of the implementation of the National Strategic Framework (CSN) to fight AIDS over the period 2006-2012.    05/01/2010   full text...
Global fund grants 91b F CFA to Mali against AIDS
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed an agreement in Bamako totalling about 91 billion F CFA (9.82 million euros) as part of the implementation of the National Strategic Framework (CSN) to fight AIDS over the period 6002-.0102 The programme, whose beneficiaries are the Supreme National Aids Control Council in Mali and the "Groupe Pivot", a civil society organisation, will contribute to the strengthening of the prevention of sexual transmission in vulnerable groups.    05/01/2010   full text...
Global fund grants 19b F CFA to Mali against AIDS
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed an agr eement in Bamako totalling about 19 billion F CFA (28.9 million euros) as part of the implementat ion of the National Strategic Framework (CSN) to fight AIDS over the period 2006-2010.    04/01/2010   full text...
UNFPA plans battle against HIV-linked maternal deaths
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A joint UN programme is to be launched to tackle the increasing number of deaths linked to childbirth among women living with HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa, a UN Popu lation Fund (UNFPA) official said.    31/12/2009   full text...
Tanzania withdraws toxic ARV drug
Dar es salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania has started withdrawing an anti-retovi ral drug, Stavudine, used in treatment of HIV following reports of its adverse side effects on patients, the Ministry of Health and Soci al Welfare said Wednesday.    30/12/2009   full text...
Tripoli hosts workshop on rights of HIV-infected children
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A workshop on the rights of children suffering from HIV/ AIDS started here Wednesday under the theme "Together for life," with over 150 p a rticipants, including lawyers and specialists from the country's various regions , PANA reported.    24/12/2009   full text...
Tripoli hosts workshop on rights of HIV-infected children
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A workshop on the rights of children suffering from HIV/ AIDS started here Wednesday under the theme "Together for life," with over 150 p a rticipants, including lawyers and specialists from the country's various regions , PANA reported.    24/12/2009   full text...
Tripoli hosts workshop on rights of HIV-infected children
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A workshop on the rights of children suffering from HIV/AIDS started here Wednesday under the theme "Together for life," with over 150 participants, including lawyers and specialists from the country's various regions, PANA reported.    23/12/2009   full text...
Botched microbicide trial scares Ugandans from Thai vaccine
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - After learning that the largest international clinical trial involving 9,385 women in four African countries into preventative HIV gel f ailed, with participants getting infected at the same rate as out of the experim e nt, the Ugandan public is now resentful to enroll for any further trial other th a n that aimed at curing the dreadful disease.    17/12/2009   full text...
Uganda institute to host African AIDS vaccine programme
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), based in En tebbe, Uganda, was recommended to host the Secretariat of the African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP), after a ve ry close competition involving a total of eight applicant institutions located in seven countries in Africa.    15/12/2009   full text...
Kenyan govt. in dilemma over toxic HIV drug
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyaâ?s health authorities are in a dilemma over the c ontinued use of a popular life-prolonging drug to sustain the lives of people li v ing with HIV/AIDS, the Sunday Nation newspaper reported.    06/12/2009   full text...
Ugandans salute US for lifting travel ban on HIV-positive persons
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Violet Nalubwama was denied visa to the US for more tha n three times due to her HIV/AIDS status, an act that left her stigmatized, but u pon hearing the news that the Barrack Obama-led administration is poised to lift the decades-old ban on HIV-positive visitors from abroad, she expressed gratitude to God.    03/12/2009   full text...
New HIV infections increase in Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia has recorded an increase in new HIV infections, w ith the figure rising from 70,000 in 2007 to 82,000 this year, Health Minister K a pembwa Simbao disclosed here.    02/12/2009   full text...
Senegal lays emphasis on AIDS prevention among youths
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese minister of health, prevention and public hygiene, Mrs ThĂ©rèse Coumba Diop, on Tuesday called on organisations of HIV/AI DS control to further invest in the prevention of new infections among adolescents and youths.    01/12/2009   full text...
World AIDS Day: Ban nudges nations on people living with AIDS
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged all countries to remove punitive laws, policies and practices against people living with AIDS.    01/12/2009   full text...
Libya marks World AIDS Day
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Use of contaminated syringes by drug users remains the main source of HIV/AIDS infection in Libya, official sources in Tripoli said on Tuesday.    01/12/2009   full text...
World AIDS Day: More men are HIV/AIDS positive in Cape-Verde
Praia, Cape-Verde (PANA) - The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Cape- Verde is higher among men (1.1%) than women (0.4%), as compared to the usual trend of the pandemic's evolution on the African continent where more women are infected, the coordinating committee for AIDS control (CCAC) in Cape Verde told PANA on Tuesday.    01/12/2009   full text...
Gambia commemorates World AIDS Day
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian Minister for Health and Social Welfare Baboucarr Gaye said on Tuesday that the country was fulfiling its promise at the 2006 United Nations high level meeting on HIV and AIDS to provide universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support for patients of the pandemic by 2010.    01/12/2009   full text...
Pretoria shifts HIV/AIDS policies
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government on Tuesday announced that it will provide treatment for all HIV-positive babies in a significant policy shift for the country which has been ravaged by the pandemic.    01/12/2009   full text...
World AIDS Day: US supports Cote d''Ivoire with US$124m
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The United States has mobilised over US$124 mill ion (about 55 billion CFA francs) to support actions against HIV/AIDS in Cote d'Ivoire, the US Embassy in Abidjan told PANA T uesday.    01/12/2009   full text...
World AIDS Day: Protest disrupts observance in Nigeria
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A protest by the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NEPWHAN) disrupted the observance of the World AIDS Day in Nigeria's capital ci t y of Abuja Tuesday Chanting protest songs, the NEPWHAN members carried a mock coffin with the name of the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), P r of. John Idoko inscribed on it, while others carried placards.    01/12/2009   full text...
World AIDS Day: Fear of rising gay infections in Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya marked the World AIDS Day Tuesday amid a renewed s tress in the war against the pandemic, complicated by the rise in the number of gay couples and a massive decline in th e sources of external funding for fighting the disease.    01/12/2009   full text...
HIV prevalence drops in Congo
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese Health Minister Georges Moyen announced Tuesday in Brazzaville that the HIV prevalence in his country had dropped from 4.1% in 2003 to 3.2% in 2009.    01/12/2009   full text...
World AIDS Day: UNDP restates commitment to HIV/AIDS fight
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP), a key actor in the gl obal efforts to stem HIV/AIDS, has restated its commitment to supporting countries and communities in their fig ht against the pandemic ''With just six years left to reach the 2015 target date for achieving the Mille nnium Development Goals, we have learned that effective action on HIV/AIDS is essential to the human rights based and broader developmen t agenda. UNDP is committed to supporting countries and communities in these efforts, said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, in her me ssage to mark the World AIDS Day Tuesday.    01/12/2009   full text...
World AIDS Day: UNICEF wants greater focus on vulnerable groups
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - As global celebrations to mark the World AIDS Day Tuesday gets into top gear, the UNICEF has released a report focusing on combating the effects of HIV/AIDS on vulnerable families and providing hardship protection for mothers and children at risk.    01/12/2009   full text...
SA to unveil new strategy against AIDS
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma was due to address the nation Tuesday on his government's new plans to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as part of activities marking the World AIDS Day, observed annually on 1 Dec, the government said.    01/12/2009   full text...
World AIDS Day: Sambo tasks health workers on pry HIV prevention
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has called on health workers at all levels to play a greater role in primary HIV prevention and encourage safe sex behaviour - abstinence, delay of age at first sexual intercourse, faithfulness and correct and consistent condom use - to stem the incidence of HIV/AIDS in the African Region.    01/12/2009   full text...
Zimbabwe gets US$180m for AIDS
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Health authorities in Zimbabwe said Wednesday the coun try would get US$180 million from the Global Fund to fight HIV and AIDS, tubercu l osis and malaria.    25/11/2009   full text...
'New HIV infections down 17%, most progress in sub-Saharan Africa'
Geneva. Switzerland (PANA) , New data in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update have show n that new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years, ac c ording to a joint report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).    24/11/2009   full text...
UNFPA gives Congo 5.6 million condoms
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The representative of the UN Fund for the Population (UNFPA) in Congo, David Lawson, on Thursday presented the National Council of t h e Fight against HIV/AIDS (CNLS) ith 5.6 million male and female condoms.    12/11/2009   full text...
African states face new health catastrophe as GF plans budget cuts
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A global campaign is underway to urge US President Barac k Obama to avert a looming health catastrophe that African nations face as a res u lt of a 15 per cent budget cut, which could deny each African state as much as 1 million mosquito-bed nets a year, activists said here Thursday, ahead of a key m e eting on future funding.    05/11/2009   full text...
Jammeh resumes HIV/AIDS treatment programme
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will resume his 'contro versial treatment programme' for carriers of the HIV/AIDS with a new batch of pa t ients whose ailments have reached the crisis point, Dr. Tamsir Mbowe, the Direct o r General of the â?Presidential Treatment Programmeâ? told pro-government newsp apers on Tuesday.    03/11/2009   full text...
Germany donates 23m euros to fight HIV/AIDS in Central Africa
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Germany has granted 23 million euros to the Organiza tion coordinating the fight against Endemics in Central Africa (OCEAC) as part o f its project for the fight against HIV/AIDS in Central Africa.    27/10/2009   full text...
Ethiopians in need of food aids rise by 1 million
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The number of Ethiopians needing emergency food a id has climbed by over one million from last yearâ?s figure, the government anno unced Thursday.    22/10/2009   full text...
People Living with HIV/AIDS protest in Nouakchott
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Some 50 People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) on W ednesday staged a sit-in at the World Bank office in Nouakchott to protest again s t the bank's decision to stop the financing of an HIV/AIDS project in Mauritania .    14/10/2009   full text...
Former Mauritania National AIDS Programme boss Mauritania arrested
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Dr Abdallahi Ould Horma, former coordinator of t he National AIDS Programme, was arrested on Saturday night by security officers, police sources told PANA on Sunday.    04/10/2009   full text...
'4 million people on ART therapy in low, middle income nations'
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 4 million people in low and middle income coun tries were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the close of 2008, representing a 36% increase in one year and a 10-fold increase over five years, according to a new report released Wednesday by the World Health OrganiSation (WHO), the UNICEF and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AID S (UNAIDS).    30/09/2009   full text...
Nigerian media filled with story on new vaccine to prevent HIV
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following the devastating effect of the HIV/AIDS pandemi c in Africa, the news that a vaccine which could prevent the disease has been di s covered in far away Thailand, was the focal point of Nigerian media this past we e k.    26/09/2009   full text...
Human Rights groups condemn deportation of HIV-positive migrants
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - National governments, in cooperation with international agencies and donors, should reconsider their decision to deport people living wi t h HIV/AIDS, human rights groups said.    24/09/2009   full text...
UNAIDS, political, business leaders partner against HIV/AIDS
New York, US (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the president s of Senegal and Uganda and some leading businessmen, on Monday in New York, US, signed an agreement to eliminate the transmission of HIV from mothers to their b abies in Africa.    22/09/2009   full text...
95 countries request large amounts of funding to fight AIDS
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced here Friday that 95 countries had requested a total of US$ 4.8 billion in grants to fight the three diseases in this yearâ?s round of financing.    18/09/2009   full text...
Germany boosts HIV/AIDS prevention within ECOWAS
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS and the Federal Republic of Germany have further deepened their cooperation through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support ECOWAS member states on reproductive health and HIV-AIDS preven t ion.    10/09/2009   full text...
Bamako to host world conference on HIV/AIDS
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian capital, Bamako, will next November host a world conference on the status of research for vaccine against HIV/AIDS, PANA learnt from the Malian Health Ministry Wednesday.    09/09/2009   full text...
UNAIDS Executive Director expected in Rwanda 27 August
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/ AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel SidibĂ©, is expected in Rwanda on an official visit last f r om 27 August to 3 September.    24/08/2009   full text...
US, Angola sign pact to fight HIV/AIDS
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Angol an Minister of External Relations Assunção Afonso dos Anjos Monday signed the â?Partnership Framework between the Government of the Republic of An gola and the Government of the United States of America to Combat HIV/AIDS for 2009 to 2013.â? The Partnership Framework provides a five-year joint strategic plan for cooperat ion among the Government of Angola, the U.S. Government, and other stakeholders to support achievement of the goals of Angolaâ?s HIV National Strategic Plan fo r 2007-2010.    10/08/2009   full text...
Senegal calls for joint efforts in fighting AIDS
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese Prime Minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye Thursd ay called on its development partners, including the civil society groups, to join the government in its efforts to "deal a deadly blow" to HIV/AIDS.    31/07/2009   full text...
Economic crisis 'slows AIDS spread' in Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's long running economic crisis has slowed the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country, a researcher said Monday.    27/07/2009   full text...
Togo gets 88 billion FCFA to fight AIDS
Lomé, Togo (PANA) – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis and the Togolese government on Thursday signed a five-year financing agreement in Lo m é for US$176.69 million, or about 88 billion FCFA.    17/07/2009   full text...
UN agency says funds to fight AIDS reach US$8 billion
New York, US (PANA) - A new report by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Monday said that resources to tackle the AIDS epidemic worldwide had reached US$8 billion in 2008.    13/07/2009   full text...
Ethiopian Health Minister to chair Global Fund Board
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Ethiopian Minister of H e alth, as the new board chair, the global fund announced Friday.    10/07/2009   full text...
Global AIDS control fund provides treatment for 2.3 million people
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria control Global Fu nd provides anti-retroviral treatment for 2.3 million persons living with the HI V virus across the world.    09/07/2009   full text...
UNAIDS chief urges renewed focus on HIV cure
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - Researchers and policy makers must refocus their attention to finding a cure for HIV/AIDS to safeguard the future of mothers and the unbor n children, 300,000 of whom are infected in Africa every year, a top UN official s aid here Thursday.    02/07/2009   full text...
UNAIDS chief urges renewed focus on HIV cure
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - Researchers and policymakers must refocus their attention on finding a cure for HIV/AIDS to safeguard the future of mothers and the unborn children, 300,000 of whom are infected in Africa every year, a top UN official said here.    02/07/2009   full text...
Ban seeks more commitments to HIV/AIDS battle
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that economic crisis should not be an excuse for UN member states to abandon commitment to the fight against HIV and AIDS, but should rather be ''an impetus'' to make the right investments that will yield be nefits for generations to come.    17/06/2009   full text...
UNICEF hails departed SA youth AIDS activist
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UNICEF has hailed departed South African youth AIDS activist and Digital Diarist Thembi Ngubane, who died Thursday at the age of 24.    14/06/2009   full text...
Citizens endorse radical plan to fight HIV/AIDS
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A summit attended by people living with AIDS, AIDS commi ssioners, government representatives, development organisations and the UN has e n dorsed a radical plan to end Aids especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, organizers s a id here Monday.    08/06/2009   full text...
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