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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: February 2007
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007. Mauritius: HI Virus hits drug users. By, Nasseem Ackbarally, Inter Press Service (Johannesburg), February 20, 2007. In contrast to the rest of southern Africa, intravenous (IV) drug users have become the group most vulnerable to the transmission of the HI virus in Mauritius. This has led the Mauritian government to introduce a syringe and needle exchange programme in a bid to stem HIV infection among Mauritian drug users. Social worker Cadress Runghen ascribes the increased ...
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ACW: Food Security: May 2006
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Sunday, May 21, 2006. Kenya: Famine Fuels AIDS Pandemic. Kenya Times, April 2006, By Ben Mitukaa. Kenya- The woman looks wasted, weary, hungry, and unhealthy. She is frail and black blisters mark her body like strange tatoo marks. A moment of silence. Then she turns her eyes slowly towards the prelate’s door. Suddenly, the door bursts open. We gave the last supply of food and drugs about a month ago, says Bishop Osoi, The patients will develop resistance to the Aids drugs. In Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia,...
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ACW: AIDS Commitments: May 2007
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Friday, May 25, 2007. WHO backs use of compulsory licensing. By, Pennapa Hongthong, The Nation, May 25, 2007. The annual meeting of all 193 member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) ended yesterday in Geneva with a resolution to endorse the use of compulsory licensing to increase access to medicines. I am fully committed to this process and have noted your desire to move forward faster. We must make a tremendous effort. We know our incentive: the prevention of large numbers of needless...He sa...
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ACW:Pharmacotherapy: November 2005
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Thursday, November 03, 2005. Drug substitution treatment in Vietnam to fight HIV/AIDS. November 2, 2005, Associated Foreign Press. VIET NAM- Substitution treatment for drug addicts will be a key part of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the future in Vietnam, government officials and the World Health Organisation said. Needle and syringe use account for the majority of new infections of HIV/AIDS in Asia, the WHO said in a statement. Official figures say that in May 2005, a reported 95,512 people were living ...
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ACW: General Information: May 2005
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Saturday, May 21, 2005. South Africa: 'HIV/Aids causes 30% of deaths'. THE HIGH DEATH RATES DUE TO HIV/AIDS HIGHLIGHT THE URGENCY TO ACCELERATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF HIV AND AIDS," THE REPORT STATES. May 20, 2005- The health department declined to comment on Tuesday on a new Medical Research Council (MRC) report putting the proportion of deaths attributable to Aids in 2000 at nearly 30 percent. But the report was made available to Sapa on request.
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ACW: General Information: June 2006
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Sunday, June 04, 2006. UNGASS 5: Failure to learn will be the harshest judgement of all. By Tim France, Health and Development Networks. The five-year day of reckoning for the most significant political promises and commitments on HIV/AIDS is upon us. At a special session of the UN General Assembly later this week, Member States can either come clean by admitting collective failure to deliver adequate HIV/AIDS programmes in the most affected counties, or they can simply move the goalposts. In the five ye...
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ACW: Home- and Community-Based Care: March 2005
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Home- and Community-Based Care. Monday, March 14, 2005. Building support for people living with HIV/AIDS in Manipur. Manipur, a small state in the north-east region of India, lies in close proximity to the Golden Triangle, a centre of the international drug trade, and has a border with Burma. It shares with other countries in the area rampant drug use, military action against the drug trade and the marginalisation of drug users, not to mention the added epidemic of HIV/AIDS fuelled by these factors.
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ACW: Home- and Community-Based Care: June 2005
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Home- and Community-Based Care. Tuesday, June 14, 2005. Communities play a vital role in promoting ARV adherence. This is an HDN KC report from the 2nd South African AIDS Conference Durban, South Africa, 7-10 June 2005). As the political posturing persists, the daily reality is that millions of people are precariously waiting for effective HIV treatment and care services, and thousands are dying in the meantime. A further emerging concern is how to ensure that the chosen few who have been enrolled in...
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ACW: Voluntary Counselling and Testing: August 2005
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Voluntary Counseling and Testing. Monday, August 08, 2005. Nigeria: HIV/Aids- Treatment Now the Issue. By Agha Ibiam, This Day, August 4, 2005. LAGOS- Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, Dr. Aderemi Desalu has the challenges they now face are that of providing proper treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). He said the need to scale up the provision of ARVs for those that need it is necessary, which he said cannot be done in isolation. He said about 15,000 are on treat...
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ACW: Stigma: April 2005
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Friday, April 15, 2005. I wish I had tested positive' Kenneth Kaunda. PUNE (Times News Network) - "I wish I had tested positive. That would have helped me immensely fight the stigma and discrimination surrounding the deadly HIV/Aids infection," says the first president of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, who is better known for his crusade against the growing epidemic. Chairman of the Kenneth Kaunda Children of Africa Foundation, his fight against the disease started particularly after losing his second son to th...
