Global Issues
News headlines for “AIDS in Africa”, page 22
UGANDA: Too Young to Know, Yet Too Young to Die
- Inter Press Service
Thirteen-year-old Jacinta Okello and her fellow primary school classmates call it 'doing bad manners'. But when you ask her what she knows about sex, she breaks into a shy smile, looks to her feet and giggles.
KENYA: PMTCT Means Rural Families Survive Another Generation
- Inter Press Service
When Samuel Mwangi’s one-year-old HIV-positive son died five years ago, he thought the death of his child also meant the death of his family’s legacy. 'I wept. And to the bottom of my heart, I knew that that was the end of my generation,' said HIV-positive Mwangi.
SWAZILAND: Focus on Infants in HIV Prevention
- Inter Press Service
A proud mother, Nonhlanhla Mabuza cuddles her one-day-old baby boy, at the circumcision clinic of Raleigh Fitkin Memorial (RFM) Hospital. A day after delivering her second son, Thabiso Dlamini, the 20-year-old mother is not only beaming because she has just successfully delivered her tiny little tot — her bundle of joy has just undergone male circumcision.
ZIMBABWE: Learning to Survive the Mean Streets
- Inter Press Service
Twelve-year-old Tapuwa Bakare* darts through the traffic as irate motorists hoot at him and the tyres of speeding vehicles screech to a halt to avoid hitting him. Miraculously, the box filled with sweets and chewing gum that he carries does not fall from his grasp.
AFRICA: Less Funds will Cause Unnecessary AIDS Deaths
- Inter Press Service
Backtracking by international donors in funding the fight against HIV/AIDS risks widening the treatment gap in Africa, undermining years of positive achievements in the field, warns a new Medecins Sans Frontieres report. And many more unnecessary HIV-related deaths will be caused by these shifts in international donor funding
HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Community Mobilisation Key to Fight TB
- Inter Press Service
African medical experts have realised they need to make a much bigger effort to educate rural communities if they want to effectively contain the continent’s tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.
SOUTH AFRICA: Tuberculosis in Children Neglected
- Inter Press Service
Even though tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause for illness and mortality in children, South Africa lacks the political will to tackle the disease, health experts say.
BURMA: HIV Infection on the Rise Among Men Who Have Sex with Men
- Inter Press Service
The only son in his family, Maung Maung Oo was forced to marry when he was 24 years old. By then he had been carrying on a sexual relationship with a man for four years — which he continued even after his marriage.
Are Namibian Women Being Forcibly Sterilised?
- Inter Press Service
A landmark court case, alleging that HIV-positive women were forcibly sterilised in Namibian state hospital begins in Windhoek's High court on June 1. Human rights groups claim the practice has continued long after the authorities were notified.
SOUTH AFRICA: Lack of Quality Health Care Causes Rise in Orphans
- Inter Press Service
Two small boys play quietly on a jungle gym, some distance away from other children. The six-year-old twins, who live at the Masigcine children's centre in Mfuleni township, 35 kilometres out of Cape Town, are severely traumatised from being orphaned at the age of one and have difficulty relating to their peers.
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