A Call for Access to Treatment.

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World wide, financial resources for addressing HIV/AIDS are few. This has increased in middle- income countries but a significant resource gap remains. A number of reasons are given as to why there is low access to treatment and a lack of adherence. Read more...

World wide, financial resources for addressing HIV/AIDS are few. This has increased in middle- income countries but a significant resource gap remains. A number of reasons are given as to why there is low access to treatment and a lack of adherence.

Keywords: adherence Partners Uganda Robin Hood tax universal access vision

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Clients' centres to curb HIV/AIDS spread in Kenya

Submitted by Suleiman about 9 hours ago

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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...

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.

Keywords: HIV/AIDS kenya Mlolongo sex workers World Food Programme

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Desperate times: women sell sex to buy food in Kenya

Submitted by Suleiman about 10 hours ago

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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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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.

Keywords: HIV/AIDS kenya sex workers

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Hungry and HIV-positive in Nairobi's slums

Submitted by Suleiman about 10 hours ago

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Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not disease - but hunger. Read more...

Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not disease - but hunger.

Keywords: AIDS ARV HIV nutrition slums Stigma women

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Reduced HIV/AIDS funding a worry for community caregivers

Submitted by banza about 12 hours ago

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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...

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.

Keywords: ARVs Community caregivers global economic recession HIV/AIDS Robin Hood tax universal access

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Treatment in the early stages can eradicate HIV in Africa

Submitted by weziwe about 12 hours ago

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A promising new way to prevent the spread of HIV is being tested in Botswana on a group of people who are being exposed to a particularly vicious strain of the virus. They are now being treated with strong antiretroviral drugs. Read more...

A promising new way to prevent the spread of HIV is being tested in Botswana on a group of people who are being exposed to a particularly vicious strain of the virus. They are now being treated with strong antiretroviral drugs.

Keywords: Bostwana Harvard School of Public Health HIV-1C HIV/AIDS Mochudi Village

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Fund gets results, but will it get funding?

Submitted by Evaristo M. Besa (evaristo) about 12 hours ago

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The October replenishment meeting comes at a time when donors like the United States and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) have backed away from increasing their HIV funding commitments. The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) contributes one-third of all Global Fund monies. Read more...

The October replenishment meeting comes at a time when donors like the United States and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) have backed away from increasing their HIV funding commitments. The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) contributes one-third of all Global Fund monies.

Keywords: Aid Policy global Fund HIV/AIDS Malaria PMTCT TB treatment

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