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Partners in Namibia working hard to achieve HIV treatment success, but rural areas not yet reached
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Burkina Faso: Finding the words to talk about HIV
Burkinabe songstress Pyane Djire knows that the power of a song is in the story that it tells and as an HIV-positive woman, she is using her music to tell women like herself that they don’t need to suffer in silence....
Theft, bribery and extortion deprive millions of proper healthcare
(London, February 1, 2006) Corruption in the health sector deprives those most in need of essential medical care and helps spawn drug-resistant strains of deadly diseases, says Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report 2006, published today. For the millions of poor held hostage by ...
High bird flu risk in Africa after outbreak in Nigeria
(Rome, February 10, 2006) The outbreak of the deadly Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus (H5N1) in Nigeria confirms the fears expressed by FAO for quite some time that African countries are facing a high risk of becoming infected by the virus, FAO said today. “The outbreak in Kaduna state ...
Botswana: Routine HIV testing not as straightforward as it sounds
(Gaborone, February 1, 2006) Botswana's decision to introduce routine HIV testing in all its health facilities was driven by the growing realization that plans to provide anti-AIDS medication were likely to fail unless more people were tested. But activists have expressed concern that the policy ...
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