Global Issues
News headlines for “AIDS in Africa”, page 12
Health System Failing Nigeria's Youngest Citizens
- Inter Press Service
Despite some progress, Nigeria is lagging behind its peers in reducing deaths among children under five. The mortality rate remains worryingly high for newborn infants - 700 children less than 28 days old die in the country every day.
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.
HEALTH: The Silent Killer that Continues to Claim Children’s Lives
- Inter Press Service
Medical experts have warned that malaria and HIV have monopolised interventions geared towards curbing child mortality in Kenya, thus ignoring the equally deadly killer, diarrhoea. This disease has silently claimed the lives of hundreds of children every year.
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.
HEALTH: Scientists Focus on Male Mosquitoes in Bid to Control Malaria
- Inter Press Service
After successfully suppressing scourges of fruit, tsetse and screwworm flies in the Americas, researchers are exploring whether the same sterilised insect technique can be used to control malaria, which kills some one million people every year, many of them in Africa.
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