Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkina Faso and the International Development Agency (IDA) have signed a loan agreement worth 16. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The president of the African Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) has expressed confidence that the AIDS epidemic in Africa would be reversed by 2006. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The battle against HIV/AIDS in Tanzania this week took a new turn with the church spearheading a national campaign to make it obligatory for couples to undergo blood screening before marriage. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Former Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings took Africa's fight against HIV/AIDS one step further in Nairobi Thursday, pulling out a pack of condoms from his jacket to demonstrate that prevention is better than cure in the anti-AIDS crusade. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- An NGO called "Médecin d'Afrique" or doctors of Africa has created a project to cater for the wellbeing of AIDS orphans in Congo, health officials said in Brazzaville Wednesday. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- A study on the influence of cultural practices on behaviour and HIV/AIDS transmission will be undertaken soon in Botswana under a joint project of UNESCO and UNAIDS. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Marginalization of HIV/AIDS sufferers would open the way for a culture of silence around the disease and enhance its spread in Ethiopia, the UN Children's Fund has warned. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's HIV/AIDS infection rate has gone down, thanks to the widespread condom use in the country. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has briefed Ghanaian former President Jerry Rawlings on Ethiopia's efforts at combating the spread of HIV/AIDS, the State radio reported in Addis Ababa Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings is in Addis Ababa as a UN Volunteers Eminent Person to advocate on the role of volunteers in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Ruling in a case involving six Bulgarians (a doctor and five nurses) accused of contaminating over 400 Libyan children with HIV/AIDS at Benghazi hospital, 1,050 km east of Tripoli, was Saturday adjourned to 22 December. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- A new report by the World Bank has warned that universities in Africa may be a hotbed for the transmission of HIV. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican Education Ministry estimates that about 19,200 teachers and more than 100 senior education officials will die of the lethal disease AIDS, or of AIDS-related causes, between the years 2000 and 2010. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Demonstrating the importance he attaches to the fight against the spread of AIDS in Burkina Faso, President Blaise Campaore has taken over the charge of the National Council on AIDS and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo's education ministry has launched an AIDS prevention project in schools, whose objective is to mobilise the entire academic system against the pandemic, informed sources said in Brazzaville Friday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Anglican Arch Bishop Njongonkulu Ndugane has called on the South African government to declare HIV/AIDS a national emergency. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Two Benin HIV-positive patients, Denis d'Oliveira and Francois Dubal Kodo, plan a three-month campaign from October to raise public awareness on HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's education ministry has earmarked two million US dollars to be used in a project to prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS in schools. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The World Trade Organisation's ministerial conference, to be held 9-13 November in Doha, Qatar, will have to take a position on access to drugs for people in developing countries, according to Jamie Love's pharm policy wire. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The HIV/AIDS Control Committee of Kenya's northern District of Turkana has blamed long-distance truck drivers for spreading the disease in the area through their indiscriminate sexual behaviour. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A Benin NGO, Stop AIDS, has started an AIDS campaign focusing on changing the people's attitude towards the disease. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in rural Burundi has risen from 6 percent ten years ago to about 14 percent today compared with around 20 percent in urban centres, health authorities reported Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Swedish government has donated vehicles worth about 250,000 US dollars to the Kenyan Health Ministry in support of the anti-HIV/AIDS crusade in the country. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The world's most stubborn affliction, HIV/AIDS, will to kill more than 10 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 while life expectancy is expected to go down considerably and leave a dent on the development of the continent. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's National AIDS Control Council (NACC) expects to reduce the HIV\AIDS prevalence rate in the country by about 30 percent among young people in the next five years through a national control programme. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- A new report jointly released by the PANOS Institute of London and UNAIDS has warned of the devastating spread of HIV/AIDS in the long term if young men, who account for a quarter of people living with HIV, were not targeted in the struggle against the scourge. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Sub-Saharan African countries, including Kenya, are facing security threats from the increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases, the National AIDS Control Council (NACC) said in Nairobi Friday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, Wednesday invited world's leading HIV/AIDS vaccine researchers to Kigali to explore possibilities of undertaking vaccine trials in his country, official sources reported Thursday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia is to benefit from a 1. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Norway and UNICEF on Wednesday signed a 1. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, Dr. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame has left Kigali for the United States where he is scheduled Wednesday to address an international conference on AIDS vaccine, the President's Office announced Tuesday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has appealed for equal access to HIV/AIDS drugs for people who have "the means to pay for treatment and the poor" in a bid to curb the incurable disease. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundi has finalised its five-year plan to combat HIV/AIDS, which requires at least 220 million US dollars, an official source said in Bujumbura Friday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A yearlong programme to control sexually-transmitted diseases has been launched in Benin's transport sector with support from the World Bank. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda is set to benefit from the World Bank's assistance in the fight against HIV/AIDS, health officials said in Kigali on Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Administrators in Kenya's Nyanza province say the rise in HIV/AIDS infection among communities along the Lake Victoria beaches has reached alarming proportions. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- An HIV/AIDS drug, Anti Retro Viral drugs (ARV), would soon be manufactured in Ghana for patients at an affordable price, Health minister Richard Anane announced Tuesday in Accra. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- A medical expert has cautioned persons living with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia against reverting to risky behaviour after getting anti-retroviral drugs. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The ravages of HIV/AIDS in schools took centre stage as the conference on education in Africa got underway in Nairobi Tuesday, with many participants highlighting the pervasive impact of the disease on education. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- The Guinean national Women's Day, celebrated 27 August, is focusing this year on the fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- The Japanese government has granted 427,350 dollars to Togo in support that country's fight against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Kampala- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican parliament deputies visiting Uganda said they were impressed by the manner in which Ugandans have openly dealt with issues of sexuality, condom use and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in their efforts to stop the disease. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo would shortly enter into agreements with several pharmaceutical firms to supply the country with reduced priced anti-retrovirals, the minister of Health and Humanitarian Action, Leon Alfred Opimbat, said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Availability of information on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria will receive a boost from Tuesday when a Non-Governmental Organisation unveils more HIV/AIDS hotlines in Lagos. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Some 78 out of 167 people who underwent blood tests in Debre Marcos hospital in East Gojjam Zone of Ethiopia's Amahara State were found HIV positive, health authorities said Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Vice President George Saitoti Saturday said the AIDS pandemic was reversing the country' development as the total prevalence HIV rate hit the 13. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius Friday launched a National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan 2001/2005, designed to prevent new infections and step up care for patients. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Former Mozambican First Lady Graca Machel has urged the Anglican Church to use its strengths to mobilise people in the war against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya has launched a national HIV/AIDS hotline to provide information on the pandemic to anyone requiring urgent assistance and guidance. Full text...