Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Pretoria said Wednesday it was "outraged" by a media report in which UN special envoy to Africa on AIDS, Stephen Lewis, accuses President Thabo Mbeki and his government of implementing "bewildering" policies on HIV. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African countries are not doing enough to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS among children, with the young ones bearing the brunt of the pandemic due to Lack of proper care and access to treatment, a senior African Union official said here. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UNICEF, UNAIDS and other partners Tuesday launched a global campaign focusing on the enormous impact of HIV/AIDS on children. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The United States will spend over US$48 million in Kenya during the next five years in a campaign aimed at protecting children against HIV/AIDS, a senior US HIV/AIDS coordinator revealed here Tuesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican President Armando Guebuza Thursday called for more co-ordinated efforts in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, and the mitigation of the effects of the pandemic in Mozambique, and across the continent. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Senegal tends to be "concentrated" among women, the Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) office in Dakar, Olivier Carduner, has said. Full text...

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Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Scores of Libyans demonstrated here Tuesday against US president George Bush's call for the release of the Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death by a Libyan court for infecting more than 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus at a paediatric hospital in north- eastern Benghazi. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- A three-day ministerial level meeting opened here Monday to review the status of HIV vaccine research and development, as well as Africa's active participation and contribution to the programme in collaboration with various stakeholders and partners. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Africa must reinforce prevention efforts to save its nations from further ravage by the AIDS pandemic, the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA) says in its final report. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The third forum of the African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAPV) convenes here 17-19 October, gathering over 300 participants, an official source revealed here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Citing poverty, gender discrimination and violence at the centre of the AIDS pandemic, a new UN report said millions of people in most countries, including sub-Saharan Africa, are still without protective services or treatment. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The Justice and Human Rights Ministry in Congo Brazzaville is working on a draft bill for the protection of the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and women victims of sexual violence, an official said here. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The UN Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis has provided separate grants of 105 million US dollars for Zimbabwe and 45. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The University of Witwatersrand Thursday expressed concern at reports of "clinical trials" of micronutrients among people living with HIV/AIDS reportedly being administered by DR Rath Health Foundation (DHRF) in South Africa. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The National Council for AIDS Control in Senegal (CNLS) on Tuesday began an evaluation process of the impact of its 2002-2006 anti-AIDS Strategic Plan. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis has approved its fifth round of grant proposals since its creation in 2002, committing US$382 million over two years to 26 grants in 20 countries. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- AIDS is not only increasing the population's social and economic vulnerability in Ethiopia but can lead gullible victims to sudden death if they resort to quacks for a remedy. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Some 30 nutritional experts from several African countries ended a three-day conference here Thursday to explore available means that could help to provide a balanced diet for AIDS-infected patients in their countries. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Thursday in Yaounde launched an education programme on HIV/AIDS in the workplace. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- The Gabonese government has expressed "great satisfaction" after the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) cited the country among the five sub-Saharan African countries doing well in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- American embassy in Pretoria Thursday announced grants totalling 450,000 US dollars to 51 community-based organisations involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is holding since Wednesday in Douala, the Cameroonian business capital, a sub-regional workshop on ways to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic in enterprises. Full text...

Hargeysa- Somalia (PANA) -- Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland Thursday launched a National AIDS Commission to oversee, plan and coordinate a multisectoral effort to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in the self-styled republic. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's First Lady Lucy Kibaki has called for stronger leadership by the Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) to spearhead the fight against the incurable pandemic. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde's first lady, Adelcia Pires, will join fellow first ladies during a Thursday meeting in New York City on ways to fight HIV/AIDS, official sources said here on Tuesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- At least 2,500 Mozambican miners died from HIV/AIDS in South Africa between 2000 and 2004, according to Mozambique's Deputy Labour Minister Soares Nhaca. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- As the Ugandan judicial commission started its inquiry Tuesday into allegations of domestic mismanagement of Global funds to fight HIV/AIDS, its head, Justice James Ogoola, vowed to purse the matter to its end. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian virologist Nana Kofi Ayisi on Monday dismissed statements of leading scientists in the country who suggested that a goat serum tested here said to be effective against the HIV-2 strain was fake and held no hope for patients living with the virus. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Hopes have started rising over whether Ghana has a crucial breakthrough in the search for a cure to the dreaded HIV/AIDS pandemic. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe Health Minister David Parirenyatwa said Friday the country's HIV prevalence rate had dropped to 21 percent this year from 24 percent last year. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ahead of the World Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UNICEF has appealed to donors not to ignore the plight of Ethiopia's 4. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The DR Congo's Ultra- Modern Medicine Centre (MUTRAC), an NGO dealing in scientific research in traditional medicine that can cure AIDS, claims to have formulated a drug known as "Nkama Nsongo" which is said to relieve HIV/AIDS patients from their pain. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria are the three deadly diseases that have contributed to the declining life expectancy in Kenya in the last three decades, Assistant Health Minister Gideon Konchela said here Friday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa is among the 29 countries and organisations that pledged 3. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Director General of Ghana AIDS Commission, Awuku Sakyi Amoa, has denounced a move by banks in the country to tie the granting of loans to the HIV status of borrowers. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The death of a woman suspected to have been living with HIV in Matadi, the Lower-Congo provincial capital, has created panic among her occasional sexual partners in the port town. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Commission and Libya have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of an action plan against HIV/AIDS, an EU statement said in Brussels Wednesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- International donors have pledged 3. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angolan health officials have launched an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign targeting schools throughout the country to sensitise teachers and pupils on the danger of the pandemic and sexually- transmitted diseases (STDs). Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission in (CNLS) on Monday launched a comprehensive awareness campaign against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Police in the Malawi's northern border district of Karonga have arrested a 25-year-old woman for allegedly axing her nine-month old son to death after they both tested HIV positive at a government hospital, police said here Friday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The HIV/AIDS pandemic poses a serious threat to agricultural production in Ethiopia and farmers need to be rescued from the scourge, an agricultural expert in the country has warned. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The HIV/AIDS pandemic poses a serious threat to agricultural production in Ethiopia and farmers need to be rescued from the scourge, an agricultural expert in the country has warned. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Only one out of every two persons in the DR Congo is conversant with all the three methods of preventing the incurable HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to a study conducted by the Health School at the University of Kinshasa. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday called on African governments, civil society, NGOs and development partners to strengthen the role of traditional medicine and its practitioners in HIV prevention interventions on the continent. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde has had a low HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of less than two per cent since 1986, the first time such cases were recorded in the archipelago, the coordination committee against the disease has said. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Uganda has expressed "surprise and disappointment" at the decision of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to suspend grants to the country over alleged mismanagement of the funds. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Achieving the targets of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would remain an uphill task unless HIV/AIDS is given the required global attention to ameliorate its impact on societies, an HIV positive Congolese youth has observed. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Three years after its creation, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is making a strong impact in the fight against the three pandemics that kill millions worldwide annually, especially in Africa. Full text...