Global Issues
News headlines for “AIDS in Africa”, page 30
BRAZIL: Getting Beyond the Taboo to Fight STDs
- Inter Press Service
Although Brazil has the reputation of being more sexually liberal than its Spanish-speaking neighbours, Brazilians suffer their own fears of stigma when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) — the target of a new public health campaign.
HEALTH: Diabetes Wreaks Havoc in Mauritius
- Inter Press Service
Every year 400 Mauritians undergo amputations, another 400 have heart surgery; 175 people's eyes are under the knife every week - all due to a disease that is easily prevented, Type 2 diabetes.
DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Muslim Community Leaders Join AIDS Fight
- Inter Press Service
Muslim religious leaders may seem too conservative to promote the message of safe sex to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. But that image seems to be changing. Thanks to community-based organisations and young social entrepreneurs working quietly in villages.
TRADE: 2010 Soccer World Cup May See More Snorting than Kicking
- Inter Press Service
It is the middle of the day but 25-year-old Lyle Arendse of Athlone on the Cape Flats, Cape Town’s sprawling hinterland, is at home. He left school nearly 10 years ago and has since been unemployed. 'It is because of drugs -- tik (methamphetamine) and heroin -- that I left school,' he acknowledges.
HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: No Treatment for Ill as State Doctors Strike
- Inter Press Service
Before, Zimbabwean families would take their ill relatives to rural clinics where medication was readily able and payment plans lenient. But now they are taking them there to die.
MALAWI: High-Risk Sex Among Those Who 'Do Not Exist'
- Inter Press Service
A study on men having sex with men (MSM) in Malawi shows that, as elsewhere in the developing world, this vulnerable group at greater risk of contracting HIV and AIDS than the general population. Moreover, their risk status is exacerbated as governments fail to target them for health services or information to stem HIV transmission.
Q&A: ‘It’s Not Difficult to Bring About Social Change’
- Inter Press Service
Geeta Rao Gupta, president of the Washington-based International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), explains to TerraViva’s Johanna Son why gender needs to be weaved in more tightly into the response against HIV and AIDS.
HEALTH-ASIA: Media Missing the HIV/AIDS Story
- Inter Press Service
The scant presence of mainstream media organisations at the 9th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) was a sad reflection of how the press was overlooking the big story on HIV/AIDS, say some journalists and development analysts at Asia’s largest meeting on the pandemic.
ASIA: After Medical Gains in HIV, Time to Tackle Stigma
- Inter Press Service
One can take anti-retroviral therapy to cope with HIV. But how does one remedy the deeply rooted social inequities that marginalises groups like men who have sex with men and drug users, as well as women, putting them out of the reach of efforts to address the pandemic?
ASIA: Stigma, Cash Crunch Undercut Gains in Access to HIV Treatment
- Inter Press Service
The failure to reach the neediest, often the most stigmatised, people coupled with the global financial crisis, loom as Asia-Pacific’s biggest challenges in coping with HIV and AIDS at this point, despite the major headway it has made in expanding the number of people with access to treatment.
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