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Submitted by Babak Fakhamzadeh (MastaBaba) about 2 years ago
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Submitted by Babak Fakhamzadeh (MastaBaba) about 2 years ago
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Submitted by Suleiman about 2 days ago
Over 100 health activists and petitioners thronged a court in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday morning, March 8 for a court mention where the petitioners, three people living with HIV are challenging a new Anti-Counterfeit Act. Read more...
Keywords: anti-counterfeit Antiretroviral drugs ARV HIV/AIDS Intellectual property kenya
Submitted by Suleiman about 9 hours ago
Efforts to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS have intensified in Kenya with the opening of a second centre for transport, port and sex workers who are at risk of contracting HIV along a major highway. Read more...
Keywords: HIV/AIDS kenya Mlolongo sex workers World Food Programme
Submitted by Kishalaya Namaram (Dodo) (dodonamaram) about 1 day ago
Cuts in donor funding could cause an HIV "nightmare," the United Nations' AIDS agency chief warned Monday.
Michel Sidibe appealed to government and private donors to keep investing in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an international financing institution. Read more...
Keywords: global Fund HIV/AIDS Malaria Michel Sidibe TB UNAIDS
Submitted by banza about 12 hours ago
The reduction of HIV and AIDS funding, as recently announced by the US Government, is a worry for Lusaka's community caregivers.
When one caregiver went to collect antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) for her client at one of the health centres in Lusaka, she was told that funding for HIV and AIDS, sooner or later, will be reduced. Read more...
Keywords: ARVs Community caregivers global economic recession HIV/AIDS Robin Hood tax universal access
Submitted by Suleiman about 10 hours ago
By day, Angela* does odd jobs at a primary school in Isiolo, a town in Kenya's Eastern Province, but by night she and her two daughters rent a house in town where they sell sex to local men and truckers passing through. According to health workers, more and more women are turning to sex work to survive the ongoing food crisis and rocketing food prices.
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Keywords: HIV/AIDS kenya sex workers
Submitted by banza about 12 hours ago
Delay still persist at the Medicines Control Council threatening to increase costs in the next major South Africa ARV tender and further threatening to prevent purchases of important fixed dose combination, including pediatric formulations, that have not yet been registered. Read more...
Keywords: ARVs costs plhiv registration Tender
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