Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The scourge of AIDS is threatening to erode Tanzania's achievements in child health as an increasing number of children are getting infected by their mothers living with HIV, which causes the incurable disease. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Monday lamented that the stigma attached to AIDS had resulted in horrific forms of discrimination and violence including rejection, ridicule and death, for HIV infected individuals and people with AIDS related aliments. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane opened the All- Africa Anglican Conference HIV/AIDS workshop in Boksburg, South Africa Monday by urging delegates to find an "African solution" to the pandemic. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A youth group, Mauritius Youth for Life, would this week launch a campaign to sensitise students on HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia has started importing duty-free life-prolonging drugs for AIDS sufferers, President Negaso Gidada announced Sunday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's Drug Administration and Control Authority said some 24 billion birr (about 2. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Lagos State, with one of Nigeria's highest HIV prevalence rates, Saturday begins massive HIV/AIDS prevention rallies in all its 20 local governments. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- There was mild drama at Nairobi's Kenyatta National Hospital Thursday when journalists from various media houses in the Kenyan capital declined to undergo free tests for the incurable HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian health minister Dr Traore Fatoumata Nafo launched Tuesday in Bamako an operation aimed at preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS among truck drivers plying along inter-state roads in West Africa. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- A national network has been set up in Congo to coordinate action in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Participants at a panel discussion organised by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Senegalese government sounded positive Monday about prospects in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Western Cape Health Department Monday called for all children, even if they be HIV positive, to be immunised against major vaccine-preventable diseases. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia, (PANA) -- The HIV/AIDS pandemic could wipe out the entire Namibian society unless urgent preventative measures are taken, a government minister warned in Windhoek Sunday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Youth Minister Joel Libombo Sunday called on the youth in the country to join forces in the fight against sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has directed the nation's military authorities to provide free condoms for soldiers to protect them from contacting HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In the last ten years more than 10,000 children have been orphaned in Kenya's western district of Rachuonyo after their parents died of AIDS, district sources said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- More than 10,000 children have been orphaned after their parents died of AIDS in Kenya's western District of Rachuonyo over the last 10 years, the local press reported in Nairobi Friday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin is to host the Headquarters of the sub-regional programme on fight against spread of HIV/AIDS on the "Abidjan-Lagos Corridor," Public Health Minister, Celine Seigon Kandissounon, has announced. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Attorney General, Amos Wako, has warned that it might in the near future be mandatory for couples entering wedlock to undergo HIV/AIDS tests, in order to check the spread of the pandemic. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's Orthodox Church Friday said it would in collaboration with its Sunday Schools, soon launch a nation-wide anti-HIV/AIDS campaign involving 2. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A spokesperson for the African Christian Democratic Party in South Africa has backed the stance of the Catholic Church against the distribution of condoms to young people as a means of checking the spread of HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Some 100 pupils from 10 secondary schools in Bujumbura, Wednesday began a three-day training in the Burundi capital, on AIDS prevention and control. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Catholic Church in Tanzania has formed a technical team to oversee all HIV/AIDS activities in its 30 dioceses in the country as part of a national response against the rapid spread of the incurable disease. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Most Kenyans do not consider abstinence from sex as a realistic option of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, a 1999 Kenya Assessment Survey report says. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The regional office of the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Dakar, Tuesday started a "Gender HIV/AIDS" programme, which covers five countries in the region, within the framework of the Pan-African women's activities. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- At least 60 delegates are attending a sub-regional workshop in Cotonou, whose aim is to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS within the Abidjan- Lagos corridor. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Aids Counselling and Support services (TACASS), a Nairobi-based NGO, has urged for new ways to combating HIV/AIDS, after observing that there were no signs the scourge was abating despite the huge sums of money spent to curb its spread. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A health expert in Zambia Monday in Lusaka called for effective implementation of programmes targeting young men in fighting HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The UN Secretary-General's special envoy on HIV/AIDS has hailed Nigeria's efforts at combating the disease, saying such efforts had not been matched by any other African country. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The West African nations of Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and Cote d'Ivoire have decided to join efforts to effectively control AIDS by setting up a health corridor at their respective borders. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN HIV/AIDS umbrella body, UNAIDS, is to arrange for the scientific testing of an AIDS cure drug now being tried in Zambia by a Chinese medical doctor. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- People living with HIV/AIDS in Addis Ababa Sunday threatened to stage a protest march in the Ethiopian capital to publicly express disappointment over the government's delay in providing medicines that prolong the lives of persons living with the deadly virus. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Public Works minister Stella Sicau this week confirmed that she was concocting traditional medicine to treat HIV/AIDS sufferers. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian NGO, Catholic AIDS Action, is to host an AIDS conference in the Afrikaans language, the first of its kind in the country. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana has completed clinical tests on HIV/AIDS herbal preparations, Nana Offei Agyen-Tutu III, Head of the Traditional and Alternative Medicines Directorate (TAMD) of Health Ministry, said Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Nairobi-based organisation, ATCnet, has launched an Internet database on the African health and HIV/AIDS crisis. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), in consultation with the joint UNAIDS programme on HIV-AIDS, Thursday awarded a contract worth more than 23 million pounds to Action Aid in support of the international partnership against Aids in Africa. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Sex workers will be among participants of a three-day workshop on planning programmes to reduce HIV/AIDS transmission in the Abidjan-Lagos migration corridor. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's increasingly serious fight against HIV/AIDS pandemic is set to move to a crucial stage with the scheduled start of the government-supervised use of anti-retroviral drugs in the country from September. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A training-of-trainers (TOT) course on prevention against HIV/AIDS in underway in Asmara for personnel of the UN Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and members of the Eritrean Defence Force. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The rate of HIV prevalence among blood donors in Cote d'Ivoire has dropped from 8 percent to 0. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Participants from 20 countries in central and western Africa are Monday attending a regional workshop on mother to child HIV/AIDS transmission in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A Washington-based pressure group, Constituency for Africa, or CFA has warned against the dangers of turning the proposed Global AIDS Trust Fund into an elitist group that would be answerable to a select few. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- A national workshop on a plan of action against HIV/AIDS wound up in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso this weekend. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's fight against HIV/AIDS has received a boost with the commissioning on Saturday of the country's first national HIV/AIDS reference laboratory by Health Minister Alphonsus Nwosu in Lagos this weekend. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The head of the Traditional and Alternative Medicines Directorate at the Ministry of Health, Nana Offei Agyen-Tutu III, on Friday called for education of traditional healers about HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Humanitarian associations and government have finally begun the HIV/AIDS education of disabled youths, a long-ignored segment of the population and high-profile anti-AIDS campaigns. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Authorities in Cape Verde have created an AIDS control co-ordinating committee headed by Prime minister Jose Maria Neves, official sources said in Praia Friday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on HIV/Aids, Ambassador Stephen Lewis, Friday commended efforts being made by Rwanda to combat the spread of the disease. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Fifty women undertook a daylong workshop Thursday to discuss ways through which they could help reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence in the country. Full text...