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 | 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.
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| 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
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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
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| 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.
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| 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... |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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... |
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| 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
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ailed, with participants getting infected at the same rate as out of the experim
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nt, the Ugandan public is now resentful to enroll for any further trial other th
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n that aimed at curing the dreadful disease.
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| 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.
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| 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
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ing with HIV/AIDS, the Sunday Nation newspaper reported.
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| 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
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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.
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| 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.
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| Senegal lays emphasis on AIDS prevention among youths | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese minister of health, prevention and public
hygiene, Mrs Thérèse 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... |
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| 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.
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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.
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| 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
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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osis and malaria.
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| 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
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e Fight against HIV/AIDS (CNLS) ith 5.6 million male and female condoms.
12/11/2009 full text... |
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| 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
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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
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eting on future funding.
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| 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
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ients whose ailments have reached the crisis point, Dr. Tamsir Mbowe, the Direct
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r General of the â?Presidential Treatment Programmeâ? told pro-government newsp
apers on Tuesday.
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| 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
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t the bank's decision to stop the financing of an HIV/AIDS project in Mauritania
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| '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... |
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| 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
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ion.
10/09/2009 full text... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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
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é for US$176.69 million, or about 88 billion FCFA.
17/07/2009 full text... |
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| 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
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children, 300,000 of whom are infected in Africa every year, a top UN official
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aid here Thursday.
02/07/2009 full text... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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
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dorsed a radical plan to end Aids especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, organizers s
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id here Monday.
08/06/2009 full text... |
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| 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
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day in Bamako.
22/05/2009 full text... |
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| 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
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ce to discriminate against any person on the grounds of actual or perceived HIV
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tatus.
15/05/2009 full text... |
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| 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
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r all suppliers of goods and services in an effort to prevent, detect and sancti
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n anyone involved in misuse of its financing.
01/05/2009 full text... |
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| 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... |
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| 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
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amme to be administered from the 15 million Canadian dollars grant committed to
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he scaling up of the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) s
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rvices in nine African countries with high
prevalence rates.
22/04/2009 full text... |
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| 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
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), a statement made available to PANA here Tuesday indicated.
24/03/2009 full text... |
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| 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
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ector project of fight against HIV/AIDS over the next three years, PANA learnt f
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om official sources here.
10/02/2009 full text... |
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| 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... |
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| 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
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ndard Bank, Africa’s largest banking group in terms of assets, geographical spre
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d and market capitalization, to offer 'pro bono' support to Global Fund grant re
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ipients in selected African countries.
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| 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
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e pandemic, a source close to the Congolese health ministry said here Friday.
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| 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
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iation for Research, Communications, and Household Support to HIV/AIDS-positive
p
eople (ARCAD-Sida Mali).
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| 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.
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| 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
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ffering from the HIV/AIDS virus, saying they were likely to die in the next 24 m
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nths if they do not receive antiretroviral treatment (ART).
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| 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.
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| 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
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u Toumani Touré, has recommended the intensification of prevention of mother-to-
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hild HIV transmission (PMTCT) across the country.
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| 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.
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| 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
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edicines to the Owendo peadiatrical Hospital, near Libreville, an official
source here told PANA Saturday.
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| '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
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riday in Dakar that there is no vaccine in the short-term to fight the HIV/AIDS
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pidemic.
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| 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
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gainst AIDS (PCS), Laurent Aventin, said as an international conference on AIDS
a
nd sexually-transmitted infections in Africa (ICASA) begins here.
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| 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... |
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| 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.
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| 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
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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... |
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