Heiligendamm- Germany (PANA) -- Leaders of the group of eight (G8) industrialised countries Friday announced a pledge of $60 billion naira to fight AIDS and other killer diseases in Africa, according to a document issued at the end of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has saved 1. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union has donated an additional 100 million euros to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, EU Commission chair, José Manuel Barroso said Friday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- President George Bush has asked the U. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius has 438 HIV-positive inmates, 39 of them already full blown AIDS patients, an official told PANA here Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Director of Medical Services, Dr. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said more than one million people living with HIV had been reached with life-saving antiretroviral treatment provided through AIDS programmes it supports, doubling last year's results. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Vice President Moody Awori Wednesday said the country has come up with various intervention measures meant to bring down the HIV/Aids prevalence rate in the country to below 5. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday appointed a Zambian policymaker and activist as his new special envoy for AIDS in Africa. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has emphasised that "HIV/AIDS will remain a system-wide priority for the United Nations". Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- International NGO, ActionAid predicted here Monday in a statement that Africa was unlikely to meet its target of providing anti-retroviral drugs to over 40 million HIV/AIDS patients on the continent by 2010. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, has welcomed the Clinton Foundation/UNITAID announcement Tuesday to lower prices for HIV/AIDS medications. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- More than 50,000 HIV-positive Mozambicans are receiving the life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, according to Health Minister, Ivo Garrido. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Angolan government on Monday opened a counselling and testing center in a suburb of Luanda for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Some 10,500 AIDS patients out of 26,000, or 45 percent, in Mali were put on anti-retroviral (ARVs) treatment between 2003 and late 2006, thus placing the country among the African countries ahead in the care of people living with HIV/AIDS, an assessment report by the High National AIDS Control Council (HCNLS), whose copy was availed to PANA over the weekend, says. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will need to at least triple in size by 2010 - reaching a spending target of US$6 billion per year - to meet projected demand, the Fund's Board agreed Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Thursday elected India-born American citizen, Rajat Gupta, as its new Chair. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The Rwandan government will disburse US$58 million to support the national campaign against HIV/AIDS in the next five years, an official source told PANA in Kigali. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – An official at the World He-alth Organisation (WHO), Thursday in Paris, Yves Souteyrand, has revealed that the cost of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) drugs that are used to treat HIV/AIDS, dropped between 20 to 25 percent in 2006. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – The Director of the HIV/AID-S Department of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Kevin De Cock, Thursday described as "very dangerous" allegations that there is a treatment against AIDS. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) – Anti--retroviral (ARV) treatment will be free of charge in Cameroon beginning 1 May, Public Health minister Urbain Awono announced here Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan organisation has put in place plans for a major slum sanitation improvement project that would also check the rise of opportunistic infections among people living with HIV/AIDS, the executive director of a non-governmental organisation behind the initiative, Oscar Foundation (Kenya), Kamau King'ara, announced here Thursday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The World Bank has loaned Benin US$35 million to finance the second phase of the West African nation's Multi- sectoral HIV/AIDS Project (PMLS-2), the bank's office here said. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Maputo office of the World Health Organisation (WHO), in collaboration with the National AIDS Council (CNCS), on Monday launched a pamphlet on the human rights of HIV- positive people. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya will this month host the fourth International Conference on the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, officials disclosed here Saturday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Only 4% of HIV/AIDS infected persons have access to antiretroviral treatment in the DR Senegal, according to UNAIDS document that reached PANA on Wednesday. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Many Egyptian lawyers, writers, politicians and journalists have strongly condemned the "heinous crime" against Libyan children inoculated with the AIDS virus by Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor at the paediatric hospital in Benghazi. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- A US$12. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have challenged Gambia to produce "evidence-based responses" to its claim of a cure for HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Council of Arab Youth and Sports ministers has condemned the inoculation of the AIDS virus into Libyan children in the paediatric hospital of Benghazi where they had gone for care, a Libyan official source said on Thursday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa plans to provide prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) service in all government-run clinics by December 2007, acting Health Minister Jeff Radebe disclosed Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Researchers from the Purdue University in Indiana, USA, are expected to arrive in Nigeria Monday to introduce a new, lost-cost technology designed to do widespread AIDS testing in Africa, according to a statement posted to the university's website. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia has secured a US$30 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) for a project aimed at increasing access to HIV/AIDS preventative services for most groups at risk of contracting the disease, the World Bank announced Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said its programmes had saved the lives of more than 1. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Some 12,709 or one-third of the 38,303 people who visited the Counselling and Voluntary Testing Centres in the Mozambican capital Maputo, last year were HIV-positive, national news agency, AIM, reported here Saturday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- New data released by the international medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Los Angeles, US, this week demonstrates good clinical outcomes for second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-poor settings. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Friday welcomed Japan's announcement of a new contribution of US$186 million. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The first instance tribunal of Aïn Zara (South of Tripoli) has set 11 March to try the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of knowingly inoculating over 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus at a local hospital. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has welcomed the announcement by the US government to contribute US$724 million to the Fund's 2007 programmes. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Africa requires strategic and accurate public communication to arrest further HIV/AIDS devastation, a representative of civil society organizations told an African Union (AU) meeting here Monday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Men, representing all nine provinces in South Africa and from a cross section of the society, are meeting next week in Durban to draw up strategies to combat violence, substance abuse and the spread of HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) – President Yahya Jammeh of -Gambia has registered a second batch of 27 HIV/AIDS patients to undergo his controversial traditional herbal treatment of the pandemic, according to Tamsir Mbowe, Gambia's secretary (minister) of health. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan Daily "Al-Chams" has asked the European Union (EU) to avoid involvement in the case between Bulgaria and Libya concerning the contamination of Libyan children with the AIDS virus. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Board of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has chosen Michel Kazatchkine, a physician and global health expert, as the new Executive Director of the Fund. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) – Results of lab tests on th-e first batch of HIV/AIDS patients who recently received President Yahya Jammeh's controversial traditional treatment have been released indicating "the absence of HIV viral plasma and or (the plasma existing) in very weak quantities," health officials in Gambia disclosed here Tuesday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A total of 234 Ugandan women have enrolled for trials of a new gel designed to help women protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infection, according to officials Monday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian military has received equipment worth US$55,000 from the US Ministry of Defence for the coordination of HIV/AIDS response within its ranks. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called on the international community and humanitarian and judicial institutions to sympathize with the Libyan children infected with the HIV/AIDS virus by medical practitioners during a vaccination exercise. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroonian minister of health Urbain Olenguena Awono and Clinton-UNITAID Foundation regional representative, Vessen Jonathan, here Friday signed an agreement to provide free medical care to some 4,000 children living with HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Parliamentarians from Africa and Europe under the auspices of the Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AEPA) began their four-day workshop here Wednesday on the fight against poverty and HIV/Aids. Full text...