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SOUTH AFRICA: Money delayed is ARVs denied
JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - South Africa's newly sworn-in Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, came head-to-head with her first real crisis when antiretroviral (ARV) treatment was withheld from hundreds of people in Free State Province. Some may give her an "A" for effort, but others (...)
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BURKINA FASO: Finding new ways to feed HIV-positive people
OUAGADOUGOU, 19 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - High food prices and cuts in food aid to HIV-positive people are forcing relief organisations in Burkina Faso to take another look at local foods to keep people healthy.
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PHILIPPINES: A matter of faith or HIV prevention
MANILA, 19 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - While lawmakers in the Philippines debate whether to approve a controversial bill on reproductive health, health officials have warned that new HIV infections have shot up dramatically in the past (...)
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DRC-UGANDA: Overwhelmed relief workers struggle to provide HIV services
ISHASHA, 18 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has forced thousands of people to flee across the border into neighbouring countries, but relief workers in Uganda admit that HIV is low on the list of (...)
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COLOMBIA: Sex tourism booming on the Caribbean coast
CARTAGENA, 18 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - On the surface, the historic northern city of Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast is an up-market tourist destination, with cruise boat passengers strolling through the old, walled city's maze of narrow streets as sight-seers duck into (...)
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ZIMBABWE: Surviving as an HIV-positive teacher
HARARE, 17 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Memory Motsi* rents a room in Chitungwiza, about 20km from the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. She wakes up at five in the morning to get to work on time at the school where she teaches Grade 5 in Hatfield, a suburb in the city, because the poor salaries in (...)
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MOZAMBIQUE: Widows risk HIV in purification rites
BEIRA, 17 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - When Mariana Uchandidhora's husband was killed in a traffic accident in South Africa a year ago, tradition required that she have sex with her deceased husband's brother in order to be purified.
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UGANDA: New hope for HIV-discordant couples
KAMPALA, 14 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - A new clinical trial to test the effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis in stable sexual relationships has started in Uganda, with 3,900 discordant couples enrolled in a five-year study.
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INDIAN OCEAN: Climbing HIV figures show a changing picture
PORT LOUIS, 14 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Over 500 people from Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion Island, the Comoros and Seychelles attended the seventh conference on AIDS in Indian Ocean, and shared their growing concern over the impact of AIDS in their respective (...)
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GUINEA: "I don't want to remarry unless I find someone who is HIV positive"
CONAKRY, 13 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Fatoumata Binta Diallo's husband had been positive for many years when she discovered she was HIV positive in 2001, but he had never told her. Neither had he told his other wives. Diallo, 49, a widow and a mother of six, lives in Conakry, capital of (...)