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SOUTH AFRICA: Life expectancy drops
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 day ago
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Average life expectancy declined from 62 years in 1990 to 50 years in 2007; it is projected to fall even further by 2011, to 48 years for men and 51 for women, according to the Institute's annual South Africa Survey . The authors note that among 37 developed...
Tags: South Africa Survey, life expectancy, Institute, South Africa, Cape Town, AIDS denialism, HIV, Initialisms, AIDS, HIV/AIDS in South Africa, HIV/AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Social Issues
Woman guilty of having HIV sex
Delhi :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility A woman with HIV was sentenced to two years house arrest for having sex with a man and not disclosing her positive status...Clair, 28, who pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault, cried in court yesterday when she was told she would be registered...
Tags: St. Clair, Paul Taylor, Toronto Sun, house arrest, Canada, Delhi, Condom, Edgard Monge, HIV/AIDS, Saint Clair, HIV, Social Issues, Law Crime
Youth laid back on AIDS
Kastoriá :: Greece | 2 days ago
Credibility Greece, were carried out with the participation of students at the Athens College in Psychico and pupils at a secondary school in Kastoria, northern Greece. The results of the studies, conducted by specialists at the Korgialenio-Benakio General Hospital...
Tags: American College of Greece, Greece, Kastoriá, HIV, Condom, HIV/AIDS, AIDS, Safe sex, Social Issues, Education
Many pregnant African women avoid HIV screening
Kampala :: Uganda | 2 days ago
Credibility However, this is effective only if the mother is willing to be screened for HIV. Anne Buve, a member of Faculty of 1000 Medicine, has discussed the recent and "worrying" findings of this study, which she describes as "quite sobering". There is currently...
Tags: avoid hiv, Uganda, hiv tested, Kampala, Pandemics, HIV, Initialisms, AIDS, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, HIV/AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Life insurance for HIV-positive people, at a price
Laç :: Albania | 2 days ago
Credibility HIV-positive status can still be an obstacle to getting a loan or buying insurance. Most life insurance companies in southern Africa still require applicants to take an HIV test and deny cover to those who test positive. Unit at the Legal Assistance Centre...
Tags: life insurers, Botswana Network, Linny Keorapetse, life cover, insurers companies, Ross Beerman, Amon Ngavetene, southern africa, Albania, Laç, HIV test, HIV, AIDS, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, HIV/AIDS in Africa, HIV/AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Social Issues, Health Medical Pharma
UGANDA: HIV-positive women need family planning services, study shows
Kampala :: Uganda | 3 days ago
Credibility HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. The study of 421 women in the district of Kabarole found that the probability...
Tags: family planning, positive women, Uganda, Kampala, HIV, Birth control, Circumcision and HIV, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, HIV/AIDS, AIDS, Condom, Social Issues, Health Medical Pharma, Obstetrics, Maternal health, Millennium Development Goals, Reproductive health, United Nations Population Fund, Population, Demography, Public health
MOZAMBIQUE: Quiet Progress Against HIV/AIDS
Maputo :: Mozambique | 3 days ago
Credibility When Dorothy Kakongwe smiles, her creases tell stories no history book can recount. This elderly nurse can reflect on numerous changes in the landscape and people around her. "I've worked for 18 years in Cobue, and I�ve seen a lot of changes," said Kakongwe,...
Tags: Dr Peg Cumberland, Dr Cumberland, Adriano Aidau, Maria Mcambula, Mathias Hamouli, Dorothy Kakongwe, getting test, Cobue, Mozambique, Maputo, AIDS, Acronyms, Virology, HIV, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, HIV/AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Social Issues, Health Medical Pharma
HEALTH-AFRICA: Fresh Campaign Against Paediatric AIDS
Lagos :: Nigeria | 3 days ago
Credibility Eleven years ago, Raloke Odetoyinbo had been married for two years and a month when she found out she was HIV positive. In that moment she thought she had lost her chance of ever having children because, she said, she believed that her child would be...
Tags: Raloke Odetoyinbo, hiv positive, Nigeria, civil society, CEPA, Machel, society organisation, sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya Treatment Access Movement, positive women, Lagos, AIDS, Acronyms, Virology, HIV, Antiretroviral drug, HIV/AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Social Issues
Wild weather batters KZN
Durban :: South Africa | 3 days ago
Credibility Roofs were blown off houses, while others were washed away in parts of KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday as heavy rain lashed the province. Provincial disaster management head Mthokozisi Duze said the weather service warned of severe conditions on Thursday morning.
Tags: South Africa, Durban, Pandemics, HIV, Initialisms, AIDS, HIV/AIDS in South Africa, Business Finance, HIV/AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Social Issues, Tropical cyclone, Vortices, Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment
KENYA: Stigma holding back the fight against TB
Siaya :: Kenya | 3 days ago
Credibility When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. PlusNews. "Yes, tuberculosis is very infectious, but those who have it are not...
Tags: health worker, Joseph Sitienei, Kenya, tb infected, tb patient, Siaya, Immunodeficiency, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, Pulmonology, Bacterial diseases, Tuberculosis, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
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