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Seeking Urgent Clarification on Imprisonment of Kenyan TB Patients
Posted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby)
World Care Council wrote to Kenya's National TB Programme manager, about the two TB Patients in Kenya being sentenced to 8 months in prison for not taking their tablets as prescribed. World Care Council has sought clarification on this from the National TB Programme Manager in Kenya.
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Ethiopia 2010: Patient Friendly Research To Fight Tuberculosis (TB)
Posted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby)
We need new tools to fight TB. With the currently available over-40-yrs old diagnostic tools, just 61% of TB cases get diagnosed globally AND close to 40% of the cases go undetected...
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Attainment of health-related MDGs still a challenge in Zambia
Posted by Gershom
Today, 10 years after setting the Millennium Development Goals, many developing countries like Zambia are nowhere near to meeting the goals. One of the challenges is that national governments are not fulfilling the Abuja Declaration of 2001 in which African states made the commitments of allocating 15% of their national budget to the health sector.
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Unsafe sex among PLHIV creates new HIV strains in Uganda
Posted by weziwe
A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter have "recombinant" viruses that might threaten both treatment and prevention efforts. A and D are the most common nationally but 29 percent of research participants had "recombinant" forms of HIV called A/D and D/A - evidence that re-infection has occurred.
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Karaoke, beer and sexual violence: how gender inequality is hindering efforts to achieve the MDGs
Posted by Meghan Lewis (MLewis)
Gender inequality is threatening Cambodia's chances of achieving several of the Millennium Development Goals. Increasingly women are standing up and demanding equality and visibility. But in order to achieve gender equality, men also need to take responsibility for their actions and demand to see a fairer society in which all genders are treated with respect.
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Pornography and lack of policy key to increased HIV infection among Ugandan youth
Posted by kyeswa johnson m (johni)
Live sex on screens and the provocatively posed pictures of naked women and men create an imagery that gradually builds up in young people's minds and can end up hooking them into addiction.
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TB (Stop-TB)
- Seeking Urgent Clarification on Imprisonment of Kenyan TB Patients
- Ethiopia 2010: Patient Friendly Research To Fight Tuberculosis (TB)
- Attainment of health-related MDGs still a challenge in Zambia
- Stop-TB News Monitor: 19-25 August 2010
- Ethiopia 2010: TB response for women is grossly inadequate
- Ethiopia 2010: Fighting TB with community support can transform lives
- Ethiopia 2010: Tuberculosis (TB) and poverty: partners by default
Africa (AF-AIDS)
- Ethiopia 2010: Patient Friendly Research To Fight Tuberculosis (TB)
- Attainment of health-related MDGs still a challenge in Zambia
- Unsafe sex among PLHIV creates new HIV strains in Uganda
- Pornography and lack of policy key to increased HIV infection among Ugandan youth
- Ethiopia 2010: TB response for women is grossly inadequate
- VCT acceptance among men with multiple sex partners
- South African youths’ higher-risk sexual behaviour
Asia (SEA-AIDS)
- Karaoke, beer and sexual violence: how gender inequality is hindering efforts to achieve the MDGs
- From temples to brothels: combating HIV and AIDS in Cambodia
- Theatre-media can help dispel myths around HIV/AIDS
- Safe sex lesson wrapped in a gay drama
- Violence, rape and HIV transmission in Cambodia
- Dying of a curable disease: hepatitis C
- Vienna 2010: Punitive laws limit access to HIV services for MSM and transgender people: UN Study
