A Muslim missionary stationed in Gaborone, Sheikh Hategeaikimana Hassan, says that the government's ABC - Abstain, Be faithful, Condomise - model is not entirely compatible with the teachings of Islam. The 'C' is the problem.
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At least 65% of The Aids Support Organisation (TASO) clients in Jinja are females, the manager, Sarah Hanakwa, has said. She noted that many men living with HIV/AIDS shy away from receiving treatment for fear of stigmatisation.
After ten days of violent attacks on foreign nationals, migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers living in some of the country's informal settlements, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is helping the hardest-hit cities of Johannesburg, Ekhuruleni and Tshwane to
More women have visited health institutions under the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Programme (PMCTP) than men, the National Aids Council Harare Metropolitan Province first quarterly report has shown.
The Cross River State Government has received and distributed over 102,000 Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLIN's) in the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) programme, says the Deputy Governor of the State, Barr. Efiok Cobham.
National Coalition of HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone Saturday ended its global HIV/AIDS week of action with a fun fair for school children and youth groups across the country.
In its efforts towards alleviating the plight of people leaving with HIV/AIDS, the Nigerian Army in Kaduna has disbursed N50,000 each as micro-credit facility to approximatly 100 of its infected personnel to begin income generating activities in other to boost
Unless a holistic approach is adopted towards finding a lasting solution to Avian influenza, the over N30 billion investment in the livestock industry in Nigeria is under threat by the deadly disease.
Lagos State government has charged the board and management of traditional medicine practitioners to put an end to the indiscriminate and profuse misleading advertisements on the mass media by traditional medicine practitioners as well as the issue of quackery in
The Head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), Ellen Margrethe Løj has lauded Jordanian peacekeepers for rendering free medical services to Liberians but stressed that such services should only be a supplement to a better resourced national healthcare
The staff of Dr Ambrosoli Memorial Hospital in Kalongo, Pader District, have gone on strike protesting their poor working relationship with the hospital administrators.
It looks as if infant formula milk has disappeared from the shelves of clinics around Francistown, even though primary health care authorities are in the dark about such a situation.
HARARE magistrate Mrs Doris Shomwe last Friday ordered the urgent mental examination of the 16-year-old Ruwa schoolboy who allegedly murdered his parents, as recommended by a probation officer.
Recently, I was in a meeting where the question of whether "HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT or VCT) contributes to HIV reduction," was prominent. What was worrying was the fact that the zeal put into discrediting HCT was being put
