Global Issues
News headlines for “AIDS in Africa”, page 10
SOUTH AFRICA: Who Says Research Can't Be Dramatic?
- Inter Press Service
In the early 1990s, a group of researchers set off for a small rural village in the eastern part of South Africa. Their intention was simple: teach the community how to rehydrate sick babies.
INDIA: EU Trade Deal May Curb Affordable Drug Supply
- Inter Press Service
As India prepares to seal a sweeping trade and investment deal with the European Union (EU) in April, civil society groups are campaigning to limit the deal’s repercussions within the local generic drug industry here upon which millions of people around the globe depend.
ZIMBABWE: Fighting Past Fear to Treat TB
- Inter Press Service
In the dusty streets of Bulawayo’s densely populated townships, Susan Nkiwane is making house calls today. She is one of a group of twelve women who form a fragile web of support for TB sufferers in her community.
HEALTH: Scare Haunts HIV/AIDS Patients in Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
Fears are growing among HIV/AIDS sufferers in the Ukraine amid claims from some patients that they have been denied life-saving medicines by authorities as a crackdown is launched on drug substitution therapy.
MALAWI: Enterprising Approach Underlies New Sanitation Campaign
- Inter Press Service
The market can do better: a sanitation and hygiene campaign to be launched in Malawi plans to apply this tenet to improve cleanliness and public health the country's cities.
Integrating HIV Care with Broader Maternal and Child Health
- Inter Press Service
From the outside, little has changed at the Maternal and Child Healthcare Clinic: pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers wait patiently on wooden benches. A chorus of infant call-and-response betrays the less long-suffering approach of their children to the wait.
Investment in African Economies Shifting Away from Raw Materials
- Inter Press Service
Local and foreign investment on the African continent is slowly moving away from agriculture and raw materials to manufacturing, services, communication and tourism, despite poor infrastructure and low skills levels.
AFRICA: 'We Cannot Leave Lives of Nationals to Development Partners'
- Inter Press Service
As donors retreat from funding HIV prevention and treatment, the vulnerability of national programmes reliant on external funding has become apparent. Without long-term sustainaibility, the lives of millions could be at risk.
ZAMBIA: The Extended Family - Blessing or Burden?
- Inter Press Service
Peggy Kapanda has bad memories of the time she spent living with her uncle when she was young. She was treated as a second-rank child. But this only motivated her to do a better job herself. At her small home in John Laing compound, in Zambia's capital Lusaka, she and her husband take care of two other children in addition to their own three young boys.
AFRICA: Pneumonia Vaccine Rollout Will Protect Millions
- Inter Press Service
The Kenyatta International Conference Centre resembled one big nursery with parents and their crying babies. One wondered whether it was tears of pain or joy. Hundreds of parents with their infants thronged the Centre where they received their first shot against pneumonia, and not even their tears as the shot broke through their skin could dampen the smiling faces of their mothers.
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