New York- US (PANA) -- The international community risks losing the global battle against HIV/AIDS, unless funding for projects to stem the spread of the disease and keep those infected healthy is sustained and increased, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) – The Global Fund’s largest private--sector contributor, PRODUCT-RED, has approved a funding of US$ 150 million to support Global Fund HIV and AIDS programmes in Rwanda, Lesotho, Swaziland, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa, the Global Fund announced on Tuesday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said the recent homophobic statements by religious leaders and government authorities risk undermining Zamb i aâ?s fight against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The conviction and sentencing of two men in Malawi based on their sexual orientation presents a serious threat to the country’s AIDS response, the Global Fund warned Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has urged the federal government to introduce an 'HIV/AIDS tax' to help bridge f unding, the private Guardian newspaper reported Friday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Uganda’s parliament should amend a proposed law on HIV/AIDS to remove punitive and discriminatory provisions and to ensure that the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS are protected, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday, after the controversial bill was introduced. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The United States in collaboration with the Tanzanian government Monday announced the establishment of the first Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) programme for drug users in sub-Saharan Africa, a crucial part of HIV control that allows addicts to return to a regular, productive and healthier life. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Social enterprise, PEPAL, announced on Wednesday it had teamed up with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to bring its Innovation Programme to sub-Saharan Africa to develop projects that would impact lives of marginalized communities. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The United States assistance to Angola in 2010 has increased from US$ 18 million to US$ 32 million per year for the fight against malaria while for the HIV/AIDS it reached US$ 17 million from the previous US$ 7 million, the US ambassador to the country, Dan Mozena, said Wednesday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) – Benin has allocated more t-han 15 billion FCFA for AIDS control in 2009, up from 11 billion FCFA in 2008, according to a report on the assessment of resources and expenses on AIDS. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The International Office of Migration (IOM) has unveiled a two-year HIV/AIDS awareness programme aimed at vulnerable populations in Somalia. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The United Nations special envoy for AIDS in Africa, Eli zabeth Mataka, has earned some international awards, including scholarships for Z ambian students, for her contributions to women and leadership development. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Government leaders must understand the challeng e posed by HIV/AIDS to every nation's security, and then act to overcome that ch a llenge, US Ambassador to Tanzania, Alfonso E. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan National Centre for the Prevention and Control of Transmitted and Endemic Diseases and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement for the implementation of a project ai med at curbing the transmission of AIDS. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Donors to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria gathered in the Netherlands on Wednesday for a two-day meeting to assess funding needs for the 2011-2013 period, ahead of a pledging conference at UN the headquarters in New York in October. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundi will receive a grant of US$ 135 million over the next five years, under the eighth round of the Global Fund to Fight HIV /AI D S, Tuberculosis and Malaria, official sources said in Bujumbura. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The security of citizens of the East African Community (EAC) will best be guaranteed by securing the health of members of the armed forces of the EAC partner states, according to Rwanda's Defence Minister, General Marcel Gatsinzi. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- To encourage the over 10 million residents of Lagos state to know their HIV status,the state governor, Babatunde Fashola, and members of his cabinet were Monday tested for HIV/AIDS test. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- An Angolan medical doctor said on Friday that at least 109,376 Angolan women aged over 15 years and above may be infected with HIV/ AIDS, with an estimated prevalence rate of 3. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- About 16,080 people, including 7,210 women and 8,870 men are receiving anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in Rwanda, while only half of children HIV-positive are getting triple therapy to withstand the pandemic, official sources in Kigali told PANA Friday. Full text...

Lisbon- Portugal (PANA) -- Some 254,471 new HIV/AIDS cases were recorded in Angola in 2009, according to the country's HIV/AIDS Czar. Full text...

Benghazi- Libya (PANA) -- The first international conference on HIV/AIDS ended Wednesday in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, with a call on the people to fight against stigmatization and seek ways of re-integrating HIV-positive patients into the society. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- The Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. Full text...

Dakar Senegal (PANA) -- The coordinator of the African Network of Education for Health (RAES), the Senegalese Fara Diaw, has called on African governments to us e the schools as a tool of fighting HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Benghazi- Libya (PANA) -- An international conference on AIDS, organized by the C entre for Endemic Diseases and Immunology of Benghazi, in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Libya, began Monday at the Medical Centre of Bengahazi (1,050 kilometres East of Tripoli). Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Member countries of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) will meet Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal's capital, as part of t he third congress of CPLP on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, PANA r eported from here Sunday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania and the US have signed a five-year par tnership framework agreement in support of the East African countryâ?s response to HIV/AIDS during the period 2009-2013. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Migrant workers in Southern Africa have relativ ely low and inadequate access to HIV prevention and treatment services, although they have high vulnerability to infection, according to a new study by the Inter n ational Office of Migration (IOM). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has said that Nigeria records at least 1,000 new HIV infections every day, the p r ivately-owned Punch newspaper reported Thursday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Acting President, Dr. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi plans to increase the number of HIV positive pe ople on the national life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARVs) programme from 270,0 0 0 to 500,000 in 2010, Vice-President Joyce Banda has disclosed. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Carla Bruni Sarkozy, France's first lady and ambassador of the world fund against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, is expected in Cotonou, the capital of Benin Republic, on Tuesday for a two-day working visit. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- About 500 persons living with HIV/AIDS on Tuesday demonstrated in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, to demand easier the access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARV). Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Government has stepped up the fight against HI V/AIDS to reduce its prevalence rate in the country, President Mwai Kibaki said late Tuesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed an agreement in Bamako totalling about 19 billion F CFA (9. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed an agreement in Bamako totalling about 91 billion F CFA (9. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali and the Global AIDS Control Fund Monday signed an agr eement in Bamako totalling about 19 billion F CFA (28. Full text...

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...