CUBA: Drag Queens and Volunteers Promote Safe Sex
Margot Parapar gets plenty of laughs from the audience with this joke: "Now the human body is divided into five parts: head, trunk, upper and lower limbs, and condom." Using his female stage name,...
View ArticleUGANDA: 'Why Waste ARVs on Sex Workers?'
Sex workers, among the populations most at risk of HIV infection in Uganda, say they are yet to realise their right to health.
View ArticleAFGHANISTAN: For HIV Care, Cross Over to Pakistan
After testing positive for HIV, which caused him to be deported from the United Arab Emirates, Nazarullah probably found little reason to feel fortunate.
View ArticleCHILE: Flood of Criticism for "Retrograde" AIDS Campaign
"It's much more fun to die of old age than to die of AIDS. And if you die with your lifelong partner, so much the better. Avoid AIDS: be faithful" is one of the controversial TV spots in this year's...
View ArticleCAMBODIA: EU, India Trade Deal Could Hurt Access to Anti-Retrovirals
Every day, twice a day for the last seven years, Men Thol has swallowed a set of pills that gives him the strength to lead a normal life.
View ArticleKENYA: Mobile Phones to the Rescue for Pregnant Women
Pumwani Maternity Hospital, in the impoverished Nairobi neighbourhood of Eastlands, is the site of a trial project using mobile phones to help HIV-positive mothers avoid passing the virus on to their...
View ArticleCAMBODIA: Aid Dependence May Hurt Successes in HIV, AIDS
Thanks to a healthy cocktail of foreign aid and a pragmatic condom policy, one of South-east Asia's poorest countries is well on course to meeting an international target aimed at reversing the spread...
View ArticlePAKISTAN: When Men Fear Telling Their Wives About HIV
As a peer educator at a local HIV/AIDS organisation, Ahmad (not his real name) has taken care to teach his own wife anything and everything he knows about the disease.
View ArticleHIV/AIDS: Fund Rejection Worries Health Campaigners
Health rights activists in Malawi are expressing concern over the recent rejection of the country's proposal for close to six hundred million dollars to the Global Fund to fight HIV, tuberculosis and...
View ArticleZIMBABWE: In the Eye of the HIV/Aids Storm
Teenage commercial sex workers are finding themselves at the centre of the HIV/AIDS storm amid concerns of widespread lack of condom use and a spike in the number of infections among this demographic,...
View ArticleARGENTINA: Disfiguring Fat Compounds Stigma of AIDS
Since antiretroviral drugs became widely available in many countries, AIDS has gradually come to be seen more like a chronic disease. But the treatment that restored the hope of people living with HIV...
View ArticleU.N. to Host Slew of Talkfests Through 2011
Living up to its reputation - or notoriety - as one of the world's quintessential talking shops, the United Nations has scheduled a slew of high-level meetings and international conferences through...
View ArticleSWAZILAND: Free Primary Education - If You Can Afford It
The new school year opened with hope - and hunger - in Swaziland this week: an estimated 140,000 orphans and vulnerable children are among the small, eager faces in the mountain kingdom's classrooms....
View ArticleSOUTH AFRICA: How Better ARV Prices Were Won
South Africa's recently-awarded tender for antiretroviral drugs halved drug costs for the world's largest ARV programme. Driven by a better-prepared and more aggressive government, the deal may stand...
View ArticleSOUTH AFRICA: Delayed Drug Registration Could Affect Region
Delays in drug registration by the country's Medicines Control Council (MCC), contribute to depriving South African HIV patients of important fixed dose combination antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But...
View ArticleObama AIDS Plan Stumbles over Funding
When U.S. President Barack Obama raised the curtain on a six- year, six-billion-dollar Global Health Initiative (GHI) in May 2009, he appeared to be embarking on the path of promises that paved the...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Laws Fuel HIV
Outdated laws that treat same-sex relations as a crime in a third of Asia-Pacific countries fuel fresh HIV infections, especially among men who have sex with men (MSM), a most vulnerable community.
View ArticleHEALTH-BURMA: Global Fund Back With New Hope
Burma's transition from an overt military rule to a civilian administration of retired generals is getting a shot in the arm from a former critic of the junta – the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,...
View ArticleKENYA: Civil Society Defends Access to Generic Drugs
Access to affordable medicine for millions of people in the South could be at risk if the production and distribution of generic medicine from India is restricted.
View ArticleNo Quiet Old Age for South Africa's Grannies
Grannies are indispensable in South Africa. They may have been hoping for a restful old age, but the AIDS epidemic has seen them taking on motherhood for a second time, caring for grandchildren whose...
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