Full Coverage: AIDS

30.08.2005 The AIDS Reference Centre (for more information, contact the Centre at 01/4678 243) announced the start of the group counseling work with HIV/AIDS patients, with the goal to increase their capacity to efficiently cope with various emotional and social difficulties related to their condition.

30.08.2005 A senior United Nations official has accused US President George Bush of "doing damage to Africa" by cutting funding for condoms, a move which may jeopardise the successful fight against HIV and Aids in Uganda.

29.08.2005 A organização não-governamental Rede de Amizade iniciou desde o último sábado, 27, o Projeto Amazonas da Noite, em Manaus – AM. O projeto trabalha com capacitação em prevenção às DST/Aids para profissionais do sexo na capital do Estado e foi inspirado em um projeto inicial da ONG, realizado em 2002, e chamado Protagonistas da Noite, que durou cerca de seis meses.

29.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 29 (OneWorld) - The Ugandan government said Monday it had condoms aplenty even as a top United Nations envoy and U.S.-based activists charged that a U.S. emphasis on promoting abstinence was jeopardizing the East African country's previously successful efforts to fight HIV/AIDS.

29.08.2005 Uganda's anti-condom campaign coupled with the U.S. government shifting global AIDS funding from prevention to abstinence-only programs, are causing acute shortages of condoms in the country, and endangering Uganda's previously successful prevention efforts, says the Center for Health and Gender Equity.

26.08.2005 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called for an investigation after the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria suspended all its grants to Uganda due to "evidence of serious mismanagement" of funds.

26.08.2005 Six German cyclists known as Team Joachim Franz, have set out on the 23,000 km-long Pan American Highway with two goals in mind: to set a world record cycling time on the highway, and to raise awareness on the fight against HIV/AIDS in Latin America.

25.08.2005 When her husband contracted AIDS, Kenyan nurse Ruth Abwao Bandi saw his care neglected even by other health professionals. This negative experience turned Bandi into an advocate against stigma and she has formed support groups in her community to help people understand and respond proactively to the results of their HIV tests.

19.08.2005 The risk for infection with HIV virus increases in cases where condoms are not used or if drug-users share needles. The success in the reduction of risk behaviour depends on the existence of well-defined behavioural skills. These skills may be technical, interpersonal and self-management skills.

19.08.2005 A Washington-based NGO has brought a lawsuit against the U.S. Agency for International Development for requiring from them an anti-prostitution pledge in order to qualify for funding. DKT provides HIV/AIDS prevention services to sex workers worldwide, and say the policy undermines their work to stem the spread of AIDS and human trafficking.

16.08.2005 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will submit confidential test results and inspection reports of its generic AIDS drugs to the World Health Organization for approval, hoping to help accelerate the distribution of low-cost medications worldwide and meet the wishes of some African governments who refuse to import the U.S. drugs without WHO approval.

16.08.2005 Like elsewhere in the world, the number of people infected HIV/AIDS is on the rise in Albania. Over the past several years, the number of women with HIV/AIDS is slightly larger with women that with men, report the International Organization for Migrations and the Institute of Public Health, the implementers of the “Inclusion of Albanian artists and sportsmen in campaign against HIV/AIDS” project.

15.08.2005 Scientists say again that an HIV/AIDS vaccine is at least a decade away, but that simpler preventive strategies - including male circumcision, existing drugs and improved genital hygiene - could be useful in tackling the disease.

12.08.2005 Microbicides--products women could use to protect themselves against HIV infection--would be especially helpful to slow the spread of the disease in cultures where women have little power to resist sexual advances. A new scientific partnership could help speed along the development of an effective microbicide.

11.08.2005 O acordo firmado entre os governos de 11 países latino-americanos e 26 companhias farmacêuticas permitirá a redução dos preços de anti-retrovirais entre 15% e 55%. Segundo o diretor do Programa Nacional DST e Aids do Ministério da Saúde, Pedro Chequer, os remédios reajustados estarão disponíveis em 2006. As negociações foram definidas entre os dias 2 e 5 de agosto em Bueno Aires.

11.08.2005 The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, is conducting a ten-week course - HIV/AIDS Counseling and Psychosocial Interventions – for people working in the field and those living with HIV/AIDS. The course begins on November 14, 2005 and ends on January 21, 2006. The last date for applications is August 30, 2005.

09.08.2005 HIV gives rise to certain specific problems in women. They have little or no access to information. Even if they have information, they do not have the power in relationships to bargain for what is rightfully theirs.

09.08.2005 A revista ‘The Economist’ publicou artigo no final do mês passado explicando como funciona o Programa Nacional de DST/Aids e elogiando a iniciativa brasileira, que conseguiu diminuir significativamente o número de novas infecções pelo HIV/Aids. O artigo ressalta as lições que o Brasil pode ensinar aos países pobres para lidar com a doença.

09.08.2005 If you knew you were about to die, how would you want your children to remember you? The Memory Box Program in South Africa records family histories of parents with AIDS to help children cope with the emotional effects of their parents' illness and death.

08.08.2005 DHAKA, Aug 8 (IPS) - When asked his mother's name, four-year-old, bright- eyed Jowel ventures softly, ''Ma''.