This submission summarizes Human Rights Watch's key concerns with Zambia's fulfillment of its human rights obligations and commitments in the context of women's human rights and HIV/AIDS, and outlines recommendations to Zambia.
People should go for HIV testing and disclose their status if they are to get help and treatment in time while families should take leading roles in teaching young people on the dangers of the pandemic, the First Lady, Amai
As part of Lesotho's initiative to curb the escalating child abuse, the Maseru Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with other partners opened the Child Helpline in Maseru.
It is the kind of trouble the agents of the Jinja Network for People Living with HIV/Aids could do without, considering that battling stigma presents a big enough challenge already.
Old people taking care of their grandchildren whose parents have died from HIV/Aids are in danger of contracting the disease due to lack of education on it.
A two-day capacity workshop, organized by the Social Change Advocacy Network (SCAN), with support from Ibis Ghana, has ended in Tamale. The objective of the workshop was to provide justification, for joint action and support to the establishment of HIV/AIDS
He is a teacher by profession. Much as he cherishes imparting knowledge on his fellow beings; this young man is extremely comfortable with rescuing humanity from the epidemic of diseases.
Recent statistics have shown that the HIV and AIDS prevalence in Delta State is on a steady decline. Available records from the State Action Committee on HIV and AIDS (SACA) and the Ministry of Health have shown areasonable percentage reduction
CLINICIANS TREATING MILlions of people living with HIV/Aids in poor countries in Africa and Asia can now rest assured that simple signs of deteriorating health such as weight loss or fever are almost as effective as advanced laboratory tests.
A two-day national youths symposium to review the recommendations and findings of the Cameroon Report Card on the prevention of HIV among young girls and young women ended last Saturday in Yaounde.
In a bid to justify a campaign, officials generally come up with statistics; alarming statistics that demonstrate the gravity of the issue at stake. The figures are, at times, scary, once in a while questionable and sometimes unbelievable!
In the last of a three-part series interviews with AllAfrica, Stephen Lewis, formerly special envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa for United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, tells Cindy Shiner of the resilience of Africans fighting Aids and of the work of
Akwaya has almost become a hell, dead end or nightmare to those who have gone there. It is cut off from the rest of the country by road; it has no electricity, no TV or radio signals, no telephone network.
