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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese minister of health, prevention and public hygiene, Mrs Thأ©rأ¨se 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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

Praia- Cape-Verde (PANA) -- The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Cape- Verde is higher among men (1. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese Health Minister Georges Moyen announced Tuesday in Brazzaville that the HIV prevalence in his country had dropped from 4. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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 . Full text...

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). Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/ AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel Sidibأ©, is expected in Rwanda on an official visit last f r om 27 August to 3 September. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Angol an Minister of External Relations Assunأ§أ£o 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. Full text...

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. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's long running economic crisis has slowed the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country, a researcher said Monday. Full text...

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. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- The HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria control Global Fu nd provides anti-retroviral treatment for 2. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...