Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) – The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has not risen in Cape Verde, where it remained at 0.8% for sometime now, the coordination committee on the fight against AIDS (CCS-AIDS) said here Thursday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - East African ministers of health kicked off talks on Wednesday on how to effectively prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst the pastoralist communities across the Horn of Africa region. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) - The prevalence rate of HIV in Togo has fallen from 5 per cent to 2.3 per cent over the last 13 years, the National AIDS Committee (CNLS) has announced. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Algeria records 700 new cases of HIV/AIDS annually, bringing the number of people living with the virus to more than 22,000, PANA learnt from appropriate health sources on the occasion of the celebration of the World AIDS Day. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 requires a comprehensive approach Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – As the HIV/AIDS is being marked Monday across the globe, African countries are making appreciable progress in their fight against the disease, but they need to sustain current momentum, medical experts and People Living With HIV (PLWHIV) have said in their messages to continental leaders. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Persons living with HIV in Tunisia are currently estimated at 1,400 with males being the majority, according to the coordinator Tunisian National Programme for Control of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Hayatt Hamoudi. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – With less than six months to the deadline set to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015, African countries have made appreciable progress in fighting the scourge of HIV/AIDS, according to a medical expert, Dr. Lawrence Oteba. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Taking a fast-track approach in the battle against AIDS over the next five years will avert 21 million deaths and allow the world to end the epidemic by 2030, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said in a new report on Tuesday. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Global Fund for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria has given Congo US$3.6 million to finance HIV intervention activities in six departments of the country, according to an official statement. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - A court in Botswana Friday ordered the government to provide anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to imprisoned foreigners in the country living with HIV, at state expense. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – UNAIDS adviser in human rights and laws in Africa, Béchir Ndaw, says the restriction imposed to foreigners living with the HIV virus is a discriminatory practice. Full text...

Melbourne, Australia (PANA) - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) have joined with global partners to launch the Diagnostics Access Initiative which calls for improving laboratory capacity to ensure that all people living with HIV can be linked to effective, high-quality HIV treatment services. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Scotland has said it will send a team of medical experts to Zambia to assess the critical areas of need where the European country would render technical and financial aid to improve Zambia’s primary healthcare delivery. Full text...

New York, US(PANA) - The Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Failure to provide adequate HIV services for key groups - men who have sex with men, people in prison, people who inject drugs, sex workers and transgender people - threatens global progress on the HIV response, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibe has dismissed fears over possible drying up of HIV/AIDS funds, saying steps have been taken to reduce the global cost of treatment to free more resources for investments. Full text...

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - The Clinton Foundation and MTN Cameroon have signed a partnership agreement to "save 10,000 newborns infected by HIV/AIDS in Cameroon over the three years during which the partnership will be implemented," PANA learnt Tuesday from reliable sources. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Regional Deputy Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in West and Central Africa, Leopold Zekeng, has called on representatives of countries in the two regions to speed up the implementation of the ''Test and Treat'' strategy with a view to reducing the transmission of the pandemic by 2030. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS in West and Central Africa wants to accelerate its strategy for the fight against the pandemic through a new approach, called ''Test and Treat '', aimed at reducing HIV/AIDS transmission by 2030, Mamadou Diallo, the programme's regional Director, said Monday in Dakar. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania will host a regional meeting of the Advisory Committee of Experts on the AIDS observatory in Africa (Awa), PANA learnt Monday from official sources. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has indicated his country's willingness to be involved in UNAIDS sensitisation campaign, ''Protect the Goal'', that will be launched at next month's FIFA World Cup in Brazil, PANA reported. Full text...

Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – Cameroonian trade unionist, René Bernard Ekédi, has asked the government to impose a tax worth 50 FCFA on each bottle of beer sold to fund the struggle against HIV/Aids in the country, indicating that about 12 million of bottle of beers are consumed yearly in Cameroon, a PANA correspondent reported from here. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - UNAIDS Executive Director and Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr. Michel Sidibé, arrived in Mauritius late Thursday for a five-day official visit, PANA reported from Port-Louis. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The number of new cases of HIV/AIDS is going down in Mauritius with 27 cases detected monthly in 2012 compared to 31 cases monthly in 2011, according to a communiqué published in Port-Louis on Monday by the Mauritian Health Ministry. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – UNAIDS director Michel Sidibé will visit Mauritius from 17-21 April, official sources said on Saturday. Full text...

Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - In collaboration with the Cameroonian Ministry for Health, Orange Cameroon plans to launch a preventive medical service, called My Healthline, which will be expanded to other sub-Saharan African countries and extend the scope beyond sexual health, all built on a common Orange Healthcare platform. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – UNAIDS executive director, Michel Sidibé, on Thursday visited the Nouakchott HIV/AIDS treatment centre and expressed “satisfaction" at the care and treatment being given people living with HIV/AIDS in Mauritania. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – UNAIDS is working to help fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Arab world following "records of alarming" spread of the pandemic in those countries, sources told PANA on Wednesday ahead of the visit of the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of "Zero Discrimination Day" to be marked on 1 March worldwide, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Thursday called for the promotion and celebration of everyone’s right to a full life with dignity no matter what they look like, where they come from or whom they love. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius will strengthen its HIV Operation Plan for 2014 in a bid to reduce the number of HIV cases registered on the island, according to an official communiqué issued here Friday. Full text...

Quatre Bornes, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Health Minister Lormus Bundhoo said Monday that one of the greatest challenges facing countries in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) as they move toward greater integration is the adverse effects of HIV/AIDS on social, political and economic development. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Health institute and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will organise a five-day workshop in Mauritius to train trainers on HIV/AIDS next week, a Mauritian government communiqué said on Friday. Full text...

London, UK (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday made a strong case for African nations, and the developing world, to be supported in the local manufacture of Anti Retroviral Drugs (ARV) to ensure a more affordable treatment of people living with AIDS. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Ghana has achieved "remarkable" results in the fight against AIDS, the National Youth Coordinator of Ghana, Ras Mubarak, said on Wednesday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Gabriel Adeyemo, a youth leader from Nigeria, has said that despite the significant progress made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, the battle is, however, far from over. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – UN-African youth leaders, meeting in Dakar, Senegal, Tuesday urged African countries to strengthen their struggle against HIV/Aids and to invest in research to find a cure to the disease. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on Saturday night noted that AIDS-related deaths in Eastern and Southern Africa continue to decline, as do the annual number of new HIV infections and that more people than ever are receiving life-saving anti-retroviral therapy. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) will donate US$ 500 million to the World Fund Against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis during the period 2014 to 2016 to fight the three diseases, PANA learnt here Wednesday from official EU sources. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – There are 5,385 people suffering from HIV/AIDS in Libya, the Executive Director of the Libyan National Solidarity League with HIV patients, Mohamed Belhaj, has revealed. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s President Ian Khama has expressed optimism that a united force against the prevailing HIV/AIDS epidemic is the solution in fighting the scourge. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - New HIV infections In Africa have declined nearly 33 percent over the past decade, according to US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN officials have welcomed the ''solid progress'' being made in the fight against HIV/AIDS, but urgently appealed to the international community to work even harder to end stigma, discrimination and complacency. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has declined from 1.4 per cent in 2006 to 1.1 per cent in 2013, according to the country's anti-AIDS body PNMLS. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Biomedical Centre of Rwanda announced Sunday that the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in the country has been stabilised over the past three years at 3.1 per cent among the whole population. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of the World AIDS day celebration on 1 December, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has called for a renewed global commitment to an AIDS-free world with no one left behind, according to a statement from the London-based organisation, made available to PANA here on Friday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the African Development Bank (AfDB) will convene a high-level political meeting on increased domestic funding for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Addis Ababa next week. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have signed a US$156 million grant agreement aimed at ensuring a secure supply of antiretroviral (ARV) medicine to all those receiving HIV treatment. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Deputy Executive Director of Programmes, Dr. Luiz Loures, on Wednesday welcomed South Sudan’s renewed commitment in fighting the rate of new infections in the world’s youngest nation. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Health Ministry said here Monday that a total of 5,682 cases of HIV/AIDS has been recorded in the island from 1987 till the end of August 2013, of which 1,203 were females. Full text...