Global Issues
News headlines for “AIDS in Africa”, page 7
U.N. Political Body Digresses into 'Non-Security' Issues
- Inter Press Service
When the U.N. Security Council, the only political body empowered to declare war and peace, decided to include climate change on its agenda back in 2007, the 131-member Group of 77 (G77) launched a vociferous protest.
HEALTH: High Drug Prices Hamper Drug-Resistant TB Treatment
- Inter Press Service
Access to treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains compromised, especially in developing countries, because too few pharmaceutical companies manufacture quality-assured drugs. Lack of competition has led to skyrocketing prices and this means that public health budgets are quickly spent.
SIERRA LEONE: Substandard and Counterfeit Drugs Flood the Market
- Inter Press Service
Bubble-wrapped pills are scattered across the crude table in a busy market beside crumpled boxes of lubricant, paracetamol and anti-fungal powder.
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Government Needs to Prioritise Maternal Health
- Inter Press Service
Just a week after a group of civil society organisations petitioned Uganda’s constitutional court demanding that the government’s non-provision of essential services for pregnant mothers was a violation of the right to life; Margaret Nabirye lost her baby in childbirth.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/SIERRA LEONE: A Quarter of Vital Donated Drugs Missing or Stolen
- Inter Press Service
Three-year-old David bolts up from his feverish stooper as a needle pricks his thumb, producing a tiny bead of blood. He looks down horrified but is too exhausted to cry and falls back into his mother's lap as the blood is wiped away
JAPAN: HIV Cases Rise as Awareness Wanes
- Inter Press Service
Slackening awareness and deep-rooted social discrimination are behind the latest figures that show Japan with a record number of HIV-positive and AIDS patients, officials and experts say.
SIERRA LEONE: A Quarter of Vital Donated Drugs Missing or Stolen
- Inter Press Service
Three-year-old David bolts up from his feverish stooper as a needle pricks his thumb, producing a tiny bead of blood. He looks down horrified but is too exhausted to cry and falls back into his mother's lap as the blood is wiped away.
UGANDA: The Value of Immunisation Programmes
- Inter Press Service
GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunisation, secured pledges of 4.3 billion dollars from donors in London on Jun. 13 with the aim of securing funding to ensure life-saving vaccinations for every child on the planet.
AIDS Funding Gap Threatens Treatment Targets
- Inter Press Service
A staggering nine million people are still awaiting HIV treatment, yet the 22 billion dollars the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) says is needed to give them access to medicine and care has far from materialised.
Thirty Years On, AIDS Epidemic a Women's Battle
- Inter Press Service
As world leaders gather in New York for a high-level conference on HIV/AIDS, United Nations agency heads, goodwill ambassadors and activists alike hope they will remember the virus's most vulnerable victims: women and girls.
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