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Last Updated     12/11/2009    15:17:00
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...
WB lends Mali US$6m for HIV/AIDS control
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The World Bank Board Thursday approved a US$6-million loan to Mali as additional funding for the country's Multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS Con trol Project (MAP), the World Bank said in a statement made available to PANA Fr i day in Bamako.    22/05/2009   full text...
Nigeria moves to protect PLWAs from discrimination
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has sent a bill to th e national assembly (parliament) which, if passed into law, will make it an offe n ce to discriminate against any person on the grounds of actual or perceived HIV s tatus.    15/05/2009   full text...
'Political, legal discrimination increases HIV infection'
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said legal and political discrimination against vulnerable groups had continued to un dermine public health responses to HIV/AIDS.    05/05/2009   full text...
Global Fund strengthens efforts to prevent corruption
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced Friday that it would issue a code of conduct within the coming weeks f o r all suppliers of goods and services in an effort to prevent, detect and sancti o n anyone involved in misuse of its financing.    01/05/2009   full text...
Global Fund strengthens efforts to prevent corruption
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced Friday that it will issue a code of conduct for all suppliers of goods and services in an effort to prevent, detect and sanction anyone involved in misuse of its financing.    01/05/2009   full text...
Zambia scales up HIV/AIDS prevention programmes
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Zambian government said it would target over 3 milli on people, in particular pregnant women and HIV-exposed children, under the prog r amme to be administered from the 15 million Canadian dollars grant committed to t he scaling up of the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) s e rvices in nine African countries with high prevalence rates.    22/04/2009   full text...
Kenyan researchers confront hurdles in fight against HIV/AIDS
Eldoret, Kenya (PANA) - International scientists working in the field of HIV/AID S research in western Kenya have stumbled on a new challenge involving the testi n g and effectively curbing the spread of the disease amongst discordant couples.    17/04/2009   full text...
World Bank-assisted health dev. programme launched in Congo
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The health development programme for the Congolese h ealth services (PDSS), financed by about US$ 40 million by the World Bank, was launche d here on Friday, PANA reports.    04/04/2009   full text...
Emmanuel Adebayor named UN Ambassador on AIDS
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togolese international football star, Emmanuel Shéyi Adébayo r, was named itinerent Ambassador of the United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAID S ), a statement made available to PANA here Tuesday indicated.    24/03/2009   full text...
Mozambican First Lady calls for halt in HIV infections
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique’s first lady Maria da Luz Guebuza said he re on Thursday that “we have had enough of deaths from HIV/AIDS”.    20/03/2009   full text...
France expresses concern about Pope's condom view
Paris, France (PANA) – France on Wednesday expressed concern about comments by P ope Benedict XVI that HIV/AIDS could not be fought with the distribution of cond o ms.    18/03/2009   full text...
Zambian doctors dump hospitals for HIV/AIDS NGOs
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Medical doctors in Zambia are leaving government institu tions to join various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) dealing with HIV/AID S , the Zambia Medical Association (ZMA) has said.    08/03/2009   full text...
7th 'Fuuta' initiative on AIDS awareness to kick off
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Musician Abou Thiam on Wednesday begins the 7th edition of his annual caravan called 'Initiative Fuuta' meant raise consciousness on dangers of HIV/AIDS and other activities affecting the people.    03/03/2009   full text...
7th 'Fuuta' initiative on AIDS awareness to kicks off
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Musician Abou Thiam will on Wednesday begins the 7th edition of his annual caravan, called 'Initiative Fuuta', meant raise consciousness on dangers of HIV/AIDS and other activities affecting the people.    03/03/2009   full text...
World Bank grants Burundi US$ 15 million to fight AIDS
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The World Bank will grant US$ 15 million to the gove rnment of Burundi within the framework of the implementation of the second multi s ector project of fight against HIV/AIDS over the next three years, PANA learnt f r om official sources here.    10/02/2009   full text...
Mozambique's ex-president suggests circumcision to halt HIV spread
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The former President of Botswana, Festus Mogae, has recommended that African leaders consider circumcision as a way of reducing the s pread of HIV/AIDS.    10/02/2009   full text...
African First Ladies call for more political power to check HIV/AIDS
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia's First Lady Azeb Mesfin Tuesday called for greater political power for women to prop their influence in the war against the triple threat of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on the continent.    03/02/2009   full text...
African First Ladies call for more political power to check HIV/AIDS
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia's First Lady Azeb Mesfin Tuesday called for greater political power for women to prop their influence in the war against the triple threat of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on the continent.    03/02/2009   full text...
African First Ladies call for more political power to check HIV/AIDS
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia's First Lady Azeb Mesfin Tuesday called for greater political power for women to prop their influence in the war against the triple threat of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on the continent.    03/02/2009   full text...
Workshop on HIV/AIDS holds in Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre of Prevention and Fight Again st Transmittable and Endemic Diseases here on Sunday held a workshop on the norm s and processes of treatment of HIV/AIDS.    02/02/2009   full text...
AIDS: Global Fund partners with Standard Bank in Africa
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Monday announced that it had signed a pilot partnership agreement with the St a ndard Bank, Africa’s largest banking group in terms of assets, geographical spre a d and market capitalization, to offer 'pro bono' support to Global Fund grant re c ipients in selected African countries.    26/01/2009   full text...
Two Congos partner against HIV/AIDS
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - HIV/AIDS control associations from Congo and the Dem ocratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Thursday agreed to join their efforts to fight t h e pandemic, a source close to the Congolese health ministry said here Friday.    16/01/2009   full text...
HIV/AIDS telethon raises 191.4 million CFA F in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - About 191.4 million CFA F was raised for the care of 475 y oung AIDS orphans at the telethon organised in December 2007 in Mali by the Asso c iation for Research, Communications, and Household Support to HIV/AIDS-positive p eople (ARCAD-Sida Mali).    30/12/2008   full text...
Gabonese women involved in fight against AIDS
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Women leaders in various sectors will work with the Gabonese ministry in charge of AIDS control to help lower HIV prevalence in the country, where the current average is 5.9 per cent, an official source told PANA on Tuesday.    23/12/2008   full text...
Human rights body calls for urgent ARTs for Kenyan children
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - International Human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Wa tch Tuesday raised the red flag over the fate of over 40,000 children in Kenya s u ffering from the HIV/AIDS virus, saying they were likely to die in the next 24 m o nths if they do not receive antiretroviral treatment (ART).    16/12/2008   full text...
Mali puts over 4,000 patients on ART
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A community-based organisation caring for people living with HIV/AIDS in Mali, CESAC, has placed more than 4,000 patients under anti-retroviral therapy (ART), officials told PANA here Monday.    15/12/2008   full text...
Promising anti-AIDS tests carried out in Africa
Paris, France (PANA) - Promising tests of a drug for HIV/AIDS were carried out i n South Africa and Cote d'Ivoire, Jean-Claude Chermann, renowned French virology specialist, declared here.    12/12/2008   full text...
Mali to intensify prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Supreme National Aids Control Council (HCNLS) in Mali, which met in ordinary session Thursday under the chairmanship of President Amad o u Toumani Touré, has recommended the intensification of prevention of mother-to- c hild HIV transmission (PMTCT) across the country.    12/12/2008   full text...
African campaigners want anti-malaria protection for HIV positive people
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Africans living with HIV/AIDS have stepped up a n ew campaign to force African governments to provide insecticide-treated nets as p art of efforts to stop the effect of the two health crises (HIV/AIDS and Malaria ) facing Africa.    08/12/2008   full text...
International AIDS conference ends in Dakar
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The 15th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) in Africa rounded off in Dakar on Sunday, with participants recommending more efforts and resources to further contain the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the continent.    08/12/2008   full text...
UNICEF supports HIV screening for Gabon babies
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - UNICEF has offered a technical plateau for HIV/AIDS s creening among newly-born babies from AIDS-positive mothers in Gabon as well as m edicines to the Owendo peadiatrical Hospital, near Libreville, an official source here told PANA Saturday.    06/12/2008   full text...
'No HIV/AIDS vaccine in the short-term'
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The director of the National Agency of Research on HIV/A IDS and viral hepatitis (ANRS), Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, declared on F riday in Dakar that there is no vaccine in the short-term to fight the HIV/AIDS e pidemic.    05/12/2008   full text...
Herbalists urge cooperation between modern, traditional medicines
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Angered by their exclusion from the health sectors in mo st countries of the world, traditional medical practitioners Friday protested th e ir lot in Dakar, Senegal, saying there was the need for modern and traditional m e dicines to cooperate and collaborate.    05/12/2008   full text...
High AIDS prevalence rate reported in Guinean mining sites
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Mining development sites in Guinea have recorded a 5% HIV prevalence rate, four times higher than the national rate which is estimated at 1.3%, the head of the International Association Partners a gainst AIDS (PCS), Laurent Aventin, said as an international conference on AIDS a nd sexually-transmitted infections in Africa (ICASA) begins here.    05/12/2008   full text...
Rwandan First Lady calls for new leadership in HIV/AIDS war
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Africa needs very strong leadership that can help streng then its response to HIV/AIDS by creating an environment favourable for the war a gainst the pandemic, Rwandan First Lady, Mrs. Jeannette Kagame, said on Thursday in Dakar.    04/12/2008   full text...
Wade throws challenge on HIV prevention in Africa
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal has called on HIV/AIDS activists to do more towards preventing further spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, while stressing the importance and need of house-to-house sensitization campaign among communities.    04/12/2008   full text...
Global Fund rejects Namibia's funding application
Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The Global Fund has thrown out Namibia's round eight application for US$160 million to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, after the country failed to meet standards set by the Fund's technical review panel, government said Thursday.    04/12/2008   full text...
Mozambican public service suffering effects of HIV/AIDS
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The public service in Mozambique is seriously suffer ing the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic which translates into high levels of mo r tality and absenteeism and makes it difficult to meet planned targets, according to the Permanent Secretary of the Public Service Ministry, Eduardo Nhampossa.    02/12/2008   full text...
Documentary on HIV/AIDS for launch in Senegal, Switzerland
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The association of Partnership for Child Development, with the support of the World Bank, will launch simultaneously in Senegal and Switze r land, a documentary from the book: "Courage and Hope: The Story of sub-Saharan H I V Positive Teachers".    02/12/2008   full text...
More HIV patients in Benin benefit from ARVs
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The number of HIV-positive people with access to antiret roviral drugs (ARVs) in Benin leapt from 400 in 2002 to 11,350 last September, a c cording to official figures published on Monday in Cotonou.    02/12/2008   full text...
2,798 Moroccans suffering from AIDS
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - About 2,798 Moroccans have been afflicted by the dreaded AIDS disease since 1986, sources close to the Moroccan health ministry told PAN A here Monday.    01/12/2008   full text...
PROMETRA launches 5 traditional products against HIV/AIDS
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Association for the Promotion of Tradi tional Medicines (PROMETRA) and the University Morehouse School of Medicine of A t lanta in Georgia, US, here Monday launched five products against the virus of th e HIV/AIDS, in the form of plants powder coming from four African countries.    01/12/2008   full text...
US fought HIV/AIDS in Nigeria with US$ 1 billion – Ambassador
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The US embassy in Nigeria says it disbursed over US$ 1 b illion to support the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria in the past four years, p romising more funds in the coming year, according to its ambassador, Robin Renee Sanders.    01/12/2008   full text...
UNAIDS commends DRC for fight against AIDS
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AI DS, has commended the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) "for h aving made progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, " Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS Exec u tive Director, said Sunday at the end of a meeting with President Joseph Kabila.    01/12/2008   full text...
Mozambique launches new HIV preventive strategy
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday launc hed a new "Strategy to Accelerate Prevention of HIV Infection" in the country.    01/12/2008   full text...
African leaders urged to scale up resources against HIV/AIDS
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Stakeholders and political leaders have been charged to allocate more resources towards stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS, providing care, support and treatment to the 33 million people said to be living with the diseas e in 2007, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).    01/12/2008   full text...
Koroma urges Sierra Leoneans to know HIV status
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Sierra Leone's President Ernest Koroma has urged all Sierra Leoneans to get tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as the World AIDS Day is observed in the country and around the world.    01/12/2008   full text...
'Condom offers 95% protection against HIV if...'
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Condom, if used properly and consistently, offers 95% protection against HIV, the head of Nigeria's National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, said Wednesday.    26/11/2008   full text...
'Voluntary annual testing, immediate treatment may slow HIV epidemics'
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A mathematical model developed by a group of specialists in the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that using annual, universal voluntary HIV testing, followed by immediate Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) - irrespective of clinical stage or CD4 count - reduces new cases by 95% within 10 years.    26/11/2008   full text...
More pregnant women in Cameroon under ARV therapy
Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - Access to the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs by pregnant women in Cameroon has increased considerably, vaulting from 9% in 2006 to 50.5% i n 2008, according to the AIDS Control Division of the country's Public Health mi n istry.    21/11/2008   full text...
Britain gives Nigeria 100m pounds to fight AIDS
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The British government has pledged to give Nigeria 100 million pounds sterling to lift the African nation's battle against HIV/AIDS.    18/11/2008   full text...
Botswana tribe to resume make circumcision to fight HIV/AIDS
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Bakgatla tribe of Botswana is to resume its age-long but abandoned tradition of male circumcision, after scientific studies revealed that circumcised males are less likely to be infected with HIV than their uncircumcised counterparts.    16/11/2008   full text...
Global Fund board approves US$ 2.75 billion to fight AIDS
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Mond ay announced the board’s approval of 94 new grants, worth US$ 2.75 billion, over two years.    10/11/2008   full text...
Botswana to focus on male circumcision for HIV/AIDS prevention
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana, one of the countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world, is focusing on the use of male circumcision as a means of preventing new infections in the country, the local press reported.    03/11/2008   full text...
Mozambique's top HIV/AIDS official denies making anti-gay remarks
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The Deputy Executive Secretary of Mozambique's Natio nal AIDS Council (CNCS), Diogo Milagre, has denied making remarks earlier this w e ek that accused gays and bisexuals of contributing to the spread of AIDS.    31/10/2008   full text...
Burundi needs US$ 159 million to fight AIDS
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi will need US$159 million over the next five years to roll back the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country, said the country's Publ i c Health Minister, Dr. Emmanuel Gikoro.    25/10/2008   full text...
Zimbabwe to get US$500m to fight AIDS
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Health authorities in Zimbabwe said Thursday the country would get US$500 million in funding from the Global Fund to fight HIV, AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria.    23/10/2008   full text...
Nigerian govt plans scholarships for AIDS orphans
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has announced plans to institute a scholarship initiative for the estimated 1.2 million AIDS orphans in the African nation.    13/10/2008   full text...
HIV funds, soccer dominate media headlines in Malawi
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Having already shocked the Pharaohs of Egypt in the ca mpaign for places in the joint CAN/World cup tournaments, Malawi press toyed all through the week with the prospects of having their team qualify for the elite e v ents.    11/10/2008   full text...
Belgium protects aids to Congo against 'vultures'
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Belgian Ambassador to Congo, Michel Tilemans, sa id here Thursday that the money his country gives to Congo for development would no longer be intercepted by what he called 'vulture' funds, sources close to the Congolese Energy and Hydraulic ministry told PANA Friday.    26/09/2008   full text...
Kenya's mass HIV testing drive gives villagers new lease of life
Lurambi, Kenya (PANA) - Edson Akala has never been so relieved in his lifetime.    24/09/2008   full text...
NGOs, ACHAP collaborate against HIV/AIDS in Botswana
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Three non-governmental organisations in Botswana hav e joined forces in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, signing a partnershi p with the African comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP).    17/09/2008   full text...
Kenya worries over fresh HIV infections
Kakamega, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan health authorities expressed concern on Tuesday over the growing rate of fresh HIV/AIDS infections, which increased by over 11% in the past year alone, suggesting the infected population are increasingly spreading the disease.    16/09/2008   full text...
Bill underway to protect HIV/AIDS sufferers in Liberia
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - The Liberian senate is debating a bill, already passe d by the lower chamber -- the House of Representatives -- seeking to protect peo p le living with HIV/AIDS in the country.    05/09/2008   full text...
PANA Correspondent publishes book on HIV/AIDS in Niger
Paris, France (PANA) - The Pan African News Agency correspondent in Paris, Seidi k Abba, has published in Paris, France, an essay titled "Niger at grips with Aid s : strong and weak points of the national strategy against the pandemic".    03/09/2008   full text...
Africa makes 'modest but steady progress' in HIV prevention
Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - African countries have made modest but steady progress in curbing HIV infection since the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office in Africa spearheaded the launch, in 2006, of an initiative to accelerate HIV prevention in the region.    02/09/2008   full text...
Mali, Burkina Faso collaborate against HIV/AIDS
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Health and Social Services Commission of the Parliamen t of the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO) recently organised a public awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in the zone of Hérémokono - Koloko at the border between Mali and Burkina Faso, official sources told PANA h e re.    01/09/2008   full text...
Mali, Burkina Faso collaborate against HIV/AIDS
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Health and Social Services Commission of the Parliamen t of the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO) recently organised a public awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in the zone of Hérémokono - Koloko at the border between Mali and Burkina Faso, official sources told PANA h e re.    01/09/2008   full text...
Senegal to host 15th international conference on AIDS
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The 15th edition of the international conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) will be held in Dakar, th e Senegalese capital, from 3 to 7 December, organisers told PANA Thursday.    28/08/2008   full text...
Uganda's efforts to fight on HIV/AIDS prevalence slacken
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Efforts to contain the HIV/AIDS pandemic seem to be dampening as many countries that had emerged as success stories are recording increasing prevalence rate, Ugandan AIDS Commission officials said.    21/08/2008   full text...
Swaziland firms take lead in fighting HIV/AIDS in workplaces
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Some enterprises in Swaziland have been cited as leading examples in bringing the fight against HIV/AIDS to the workplace, according to a new film and report from the International Labour Organization (ILO), to be released Wednesday.    20/08/2008   full text...
Gambian President "cures", discharges 23 HIV/AIDS patients
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has discharged 23 HIV/AID S patients who had undergone treatment from him in his native village of ‘Kanila i ’, situated some 120km southeast of Banjul, the capital, government sources conf i rmed Tuesday.    19/08/2008   full text...
Ethiopian church seeks support to fight HIV/AIDS
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has registered remarkable achievements in the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases, according to the church's patriarch, Abune Paulos.    12/08/2008   full text...
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