Full Coverage: AIDS

31.10.2005 Watch the webcast of this reading and panel discussion with South Africa Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Edwin Cameron who talked about his memoir, Witness to AIDS. The reading is followed by a discussion featuring Gay McDougall, international human rights leader and executive director of Global Rights, Partners for Justice; Princeton Lyman, former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa and current Council on Foreign Relations Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies; Terje Anderson, executive director, National Association of People with AIDS; and moderated by ABC correspondent Michel Martin.

27.10.2005 It is a disgrace that fewer than 5 per cent of HIV-positive children receive treatment and that millions of children who have lost parents to the disease go without support, says a new global campaign.

26.10.2005 India has been under a global scanner for over a year because of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which international agencies and Indian non governmental organisations (NGOs) say is growing phenomenally though the Indian government has denied it. The controversy has ballooned to include accusations that the HIV/AIDS problem is being unduly magnified to attract international funds. The irony lies in the fact that Indian organisations are sparring even as the infection soars in the country.

19.10.2005 Experts from Thailand are helping a Tanzanian drug company learn how to manufacture and distribute anti-AIDS drugs at home, making life-saving medications available in the country--where 1.6 million are living with HIV/AIDS--at a fraction of the previous cost.

16.10.2005 Air traffic will be halted if there is a major outbreak of “bird flu”, Laurie Garrett of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations warned in London - and that woul have an immediate impact on Western countries such as Britain.

11.10.2005 The good news is that Zimbabwe's aggressive anti-AIDS campaigns have made the country the first in Southern Africa to show a decline in its AIDS rate. The bad news is that that rate is still critically high, and thousands are dying from the disease each week.

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This series of fact sheets produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation includes an overview of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa and individual country fact sheets for Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, the Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

06.10.2005 All the commitments made by both donors and African countries to lift the continent out of poverty will be consolidated into one action plan and monitored on an annual basis, the Department for International Development announced.

04.10.2005 The fear of testing positive for HIV and of then being ostracised is what holds back those affected from the ambitious programme of free anti-retroviral therapy.