Full Coverage: AIDS

26.04.2005 Dr Suman Mehta, associate director of Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), who is responsible for providing policy and programme support on HIV/AIDS to countries in Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, speaks to Rajiv Tikoo of OneWorld South Asia about the 3 by 5 Progress Report and on the progress and the challenges in mainstreaming HIV/AIDS.

21.04.2005 The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope Tuesday has disappointed progressive Catholic groups who fear that Ratzinger, like his predecessor, will maintain the church's strict orthodoxy on issues such as contraception, celibacy, abortion, homosexuality and women's leadership.

19.04.2005 CAHIV is an association involved in prevention of HIV/AIDS epydemics and provides assistance to patients with HIV infection or AIDS.

15.04.2005 The United States requirement that anti-AIDS programs promote abstinence until marriage, while restricting condoms to what the Bush Administration considers "risk groups," is counter-productive, say global health advocates, citing statistics showing that in many countries the highest rates of new infections are among married, monogamous women.

14.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 14 (OneWorld) - AIDS is having a devastating impact on farms, economies, and societies' ability to feed themselves, health and agricultural experts warned Thursday.

14.04.2005 "We are at a watershed...The connections between HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition insecurity are generally well known. However, the next step--of using this knowledge to take effective action--has yet to be taken," said Dr. Stuart Gillespie, the chief organizer of an international conference in South Africa this week aiming to spur action to break the AIDS-hunger link.

13.04.2005 Scottish novelist Alexander McCall Smith is donating the royalties from his latest novel, The Girl Who Married a Lion,--a set of folk tales gathered mainly from the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe--to people living with AIDS in one of Zimbabwe's poorest regions. The book is expected to raise more than $193,000.

13.04.2005 Take a short survey on addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa and enter to win a $25 Amazon gift certificate. Survey results will be posted on the IAEN and CGD web sites and will be presented at a CGD event, "HIV/AIDS: Money, Bottlenecks, and the Future" on April 18.

08.04.2005 Comprehensive sexuality education should be a priority and every HIV/AIDS strategy should include services to promote sexual and reproductive health if HIV/AIDS prevention programs are to be successful, says the International Women's Health Coalition.

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