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A new and improved PEPFAR under Obama? |
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January 21, 2009 |
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Johannesburg - Hopes are high that the change promised by new US President Barack Obama will extend to his foreign policy, but among the more than two million people living with HIV, mainly in Africa, the changing of the guard at the White House may elicit mixed feelings.
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Routine HIV testing in Zimbabwe is a long way off |
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January 14, 2009 |
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Harare - When Mercy Mangwende*, 38, walked into her doctor's surgery in Harare three years ago with flu and chest pains, she had no idea her life was about to change forever.
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Edwin Smith: "No-one talked about what killed my sister" |
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January 02, 2009 |
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Johannesburg - Edwin Smith has written about the silence that surrounded the death of his sister, whom he had helped to raise, from AIDS-related illnesses, including multi-drug resistant TB.
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Will criminalising HIV transmission work? |
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December 01, 2008 |
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Johannesburg - Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are looking at a new way of preventing HIV infections: criminal charges. But experts argue that applying criminal law to HIV transmission will achieve neither criminal justice nor curb the spread of the virus; rather, it will increase discrimination against people living with HIV, and undermine public health and human rights.
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Falling foul of the fund |
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November 04, 2008 |
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Nairobi - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed in 2001 for the purpose of setting up an innovative approach to providing finance to combat the three diseases that kill more than six million people worldwide every year.
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Bonita Nakanyala: "There is no way I will disclose my clients’ status to [bosses]" |
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October 29, 2008 |
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Otjivero - Bonita Nakanyala is the head nurse at a small clinic in Otjivero, a village hemmed in by farmland about 150 kilometres east of Windhoek, the Namibian capital.
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Motlomelo Thakali: "There were days on which I lived on water, but still had my ARVs" |
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September 15, 2008 |
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Maseru - Motlomelo Thakali is HIV-positive and unemployed, and depends on casual work to help feed his family.
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Bishop Kevin Dowling: "The best available means we have to protect life is the condom" |
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August 21, 2008 |
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Rustenburg - Kevin Dowling is the Catholic Bishop of Rustenburg, a mining town in South Africa's North West Province surrounded by informal settlements, where as many as 50 percent of pregnant women test positive for HIV.
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Bev White: "They have looked after us and it's our duty to look after them" |
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July 15, 2008 |
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Johannesburg - Bev White, a business owner and mother of one, started a support group called Living Positively at Home for employers of HIV-positive domestic workers after her child's nanny, Thandi, was diagnosed positive three years ago.
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Siphiwe Hlope: "Today women are so courageous" |
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July 14, 2008 |
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Mbabane - Siphiwe Hlope is a pioneer. She was one of the first Swazi women to publicly declare her HIV status, in 2001, at a time when stigma against people living with the virus was intense.
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