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EIA to Address HIV/AIDS

Environment Impact Assessments (EIA) will be expected to address HIV/AIDS and gender issues in the future after the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA), together with other SADC countries complete an ongoing project that intends on finding ways of integrating these issues into the EIA.

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Extended ART cost-effective for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in Nigeria

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) new recommendation for the extended use of triple drug antiretroviral prophylaxis for mother and infant is highly cost-effective compared to the current short-course two drug therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) in Nigeria.

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HIV prevention in action: Grassroot Soccer mobilizes young people to stop the spread of HIV

During the meeting of the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention,  commissioners visited Grassroot Soccer's Football for Hope Centre during a Skillz Street practice session involving around 100 girls.  

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Qualitative study to tell the stories behind the numbers about women and HIV in Latin America

Women living with and affected by HIV in Latin America met recently in Panama to identify tools and methodologies to undertake their own study on the “vulnerabilities of women living with HIV in Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean.”

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Gulf Cooperation Council Member States call for collaborative approach to effectively respond to AIDS

A new initiative “Combating AIDS in GCC countries” was hosted by the Minister of Health of Saudi Arabia, Dr Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Rabeeah and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on 16 April in Riyadh.

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Put girls first, speakers urge governments during Commission on Population and Development event

Dr Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, addressed a side event called Putting Girls First during the CPD, which ran from 11-15 April at UN Headquarters in New York. UNFPA's director  underlined the need to promote girls’ rights and gender equality and to prioritize them within national programmes for health, education, livelihoods and security.  

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Dairy cooperative in Tanzania is helping rural women to help themselves

With support from an International Labour Organization (ILO) programme funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, a women's dairy cooperative organizes entrepreneurial skills-building and HIV awareness-raising activities.  

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From isolation to integration: Rwandan project transforms women’s lives

In 2004, two sisters in Rwanda started a “trade-not-aid” initiative that produces high-end handicrafts.+ From a humble beginning with just 20 artisans in the remote village of Gitarama,  Gahaya Links  has…

S. Africa Project Improves Treatment for Poor HIV-Positive Pregnant Women

In a former township outside of Cape Town, South Africa, a new project aims to break down barriers to antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women.

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Namibia HIV women sue over forced sterilization

Three women in Namibia are suing the state for allegedly being sterilised  without their informed consent after being diagnosed as HIV positive.

First Lady of Cameroon named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, will designate Chantal Biya, First Lady of Cameroon, as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for education and social inclusion. The designation recognizes the First Lady’s longstanding support for inclusive education, particularly concerning girls, young women, orphans and the underprivileged, as well as for HIV/AIDS research, treatment, education and prevention.

Rise in mobility across South-East Asia puts millions more at risk for HIV
13 November 2008 - The growing number of people crossing boundaries in South-East Asia searching for economic opportunity puts millions at risk to HIV infection with little or no protection or access to services, according to a United Nations report launched today.
Women need empowerment in fight against AIDS: U.N.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Women must be more involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a disease increasingly being spread through sex, and men must also be encouraged to respect women more, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
Straight Talk about Male Circumcision
Adult male circumcision is being pushed as the latest magic bullet for the HIV pandemic. There is good reason for the enthusiasm about a new use for the world's oldest surgical intervention. But let's be clear about what circumcision will and will not offer a man and his partner or partners.
World AIDS Day Message - UNFPA
Today, on World AIDS Day, we are called upon to be leaders in the fight against AIDS. Where there is strong and committed leadership, the response is more effective.
Pregnancy May Slow -- Not Accelerate -- Progression To AIDS
A new study may help put to rest fears that pregnancy accelerates progression to full-blown AIDS in women with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy. The study, published in the October 1st issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and now available online, revealed that pregnancy may, in fact, slow disease progression in these women.
AIDS groups lobby health summit in South Africa
As a week-long meeting of health ministers organised by the African Union (AU) got underway in Johannesburg on Monday, AIDS activists expressed concern that commitments on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, reached at several meetings last year, were missing from the agenda.
Regional leaders urged to learn from Africa in fight against HIV
A UN-sponsored conference on HIV/AIDS being held in Auckland has called on health ministers and attorney generals in the Pacific to apply the lessons learnt from Africa.
Community-based Measures Fail To Reduce HIV Levels, New Study Shows
Interventions that target individuals with a high risk of contracting HIV have a negligible impact on HIV transmission in the general population, according to a new study of communities in Zimbabwe, published today.
Bill introduced in USA to Reduce Women's Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a bipartisan bill to reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV infection in developing countries and eliminate the requirement that thirty-three percent of AIDS prevention funds be spent for abstinence-only programs.