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SWAZILAND: Free Primary Education - If You Can Afford It
- Inter Press Service
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. Poverty and the AIDS pandemic threaten to make an early mark on the next generation.
U.N. to Host Slew of Talkfests Through 2011
- Inter Press Service
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 December this year.
ARGENTINA: Disfiguring Fat Compounds Stigma of AIDS
- Inter Press Service
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 has posed a new challenge, which is generally played down by health professionals.
ZIMBABWE: In the Eye of the HIV/Aids Storm
- Inter Press Service
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, despite the country’s continuing HIV/AIDS campaigns, which health authorities say has seen a drop in prevalence in the past few years.
HIV/AIDS: Fund Rejection Worries Health Campaigners
- Inter Press Service
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 malaria between 2011 and 2016.
PAKISTAN: When Men Fear Telling Their Wives About HIV
- Inter Press Service
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.
CAMBODIA: Aid Dependence May Hurt Successes in HIV, AIDS
- Inter Press Service
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 of HIV and AIDS.
MATERNAL HEALTH: Mobile Phones to the Rescue for Pregnant Women
- Inter Press Service
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 children.
CAMBODIA: EU, India Trade Deal Could Hurt Access to Anti-Retrovirals
- Inter Press Service
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.
CHILE: Flood of Criticism for 'Retrograde' AIDS Campaign
- Inter Press Service
'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 edition of the annual anti-AIDS campaign by Chile’s Health Ministry.
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