Global Issues
News headlines for “AIDS in Africa”, page 11
No Quiet Old Age for South Africa's Grannies
- Inter Press Service
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 parents have died of the disease.
KENYA: Civil Society Defends Access to Generic Drugs
- Inter Press Service
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.
HEALTH-BURMA: Global Fund Back With New Hope
- Inter Press Service
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, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Anti-Gay Laws Fuel HIV
- Inter Press Service
Outdated laws that treat same-sex relations as a crime in a third of Asia-Pacific countries fuel fresh HIV infections, especially among men who have sex with men (MSM),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.
Obama AIDS Plan Stumbles over Funding
- Inter Press Service
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 way to his election victory earlier that year.
ZIMBABWE: Filtering Fact Fiction About D.I.Y. Water Treatment
- Inter Press Service
The southern Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo has not been spared the heavy rains that have fallen across Southern Africa; the water is welcome in this semi-arid part of the country, but the coming of the rainy season has provoked fresh memories of the 2008 cholera epidemic.
SOUTH AFRICA: Delayed Drug Registration Could Affect Region
- Inter Press Service
Delays in drug registration by the country's Medicines Control Council (MCC), contribute to depriving South African HIV patients of important fixed does combination antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But there are indications that the effects of the delays are being felt even farther afield.
COTE D’IVOIRE: Protecting Public Health Despite Political Impasse
- Inter Press Service
The political stand-off between Alassane Ouattara, certified by the United Nations as winner of Nov. 28 elections, and the incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to step down, is stretching into its eighth week.
SOUTH AFRICA: How Better ARV Prices Were Won
- Inter Press Service
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 up to criticism better than initially thought.
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.
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