The theme for World AIDS Day 2009 is 'Universal Access and Human Rights', and the efforts of the continent's developing countries to reach some of the key indicators of universal access are under closer scrutiny than ever. Will they do

A committee set up by about 40 organisations of people living with HIV/Aids is investigating reports of ghost patients receiving anti retroviral drugs from the Ministry of Health's certified Aids treatment centres.

The Special Adviser to the Benue State Governor on HIV/AIDS and other Communicable diseases Mrs. Maria Idu has disclosed that no fewer than 400,000 persons have been identified as carriers of the dreaded HIV/AIDS virus in the state.

Kenyans have commended the US Government for its financial assistance towards combating the spread of HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the country.

HIV/ AIDS pandemic are one of the leading causes of orphan- hood and child labour in Uganda affecting 15percent of children out of estimated 2 million, reports Inea News Agency Ltd.

An HIV/AIDS Expo, which aims to encourage the spirit of a caring community by reinforcing the values of Ubuntu, gets off in Johannesburg on Monday.

IT is easy for individuals or organisations to stop doing charity work the moment they stop getting funding.

December 1 - a day officially reserved to commemorate the World AIDS Day - is a day in which the globe will be taking stock of what it has achieved in its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS and to celebrate its

THE state minister in charge of youth and children affairs, Jessica Alupo, has said HIV/AIDS and high level of poverty have increased the number of orphans and other vulnerable children in Uganda.

UGANDA was the first country in the world to bring down the HIV incidence from 18% to 6.4%.

A UNIVERSITY student broke up with his girlfriend after learning she was cheating on him. It is then that he realised he could have contracted HIV, seeing that she was neither faithful nor did they use condoms.

UGANDA has, over the years, emerged as a role model in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa and globally. This can be attributed to the Government's effort, broad-based partnerships and effective public education campaigns.

HENRY Mutabazi, a 34-year-old man was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2000 but could not start on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) before establishing whether he was eligible. He then went to a clinic for a CD4 cell count, only to find he

THE AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) has launched a door-to-door HIV/AIDS and malaria campaign in Apac district. The campaign aims at strengthening the public health system and training health workers to care for HIV-positive people.

JOAN Nyajwaya, a 45- year-old resident of Gulu town cannot stop moving around bars educating sex workers about the dangers of HIV. "I am now a peer educator to these people because they are at a higher risk of contracting

Dr. Noerine Kaleeba is the founder of The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) and Katalemwa Cheshire Home in Gayaza. She points out to New Vision milestones that have shaped her life.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new recommendations on HIV treatment and prevention and for the first time recommended that HIV-positive mothers or their infants take antiretrovirals while breastfeeding to prevent HIV transmission.

The only thing that 11-year-old Hope* likes about school is the playground game called Ba.

Western medicine and traditional healers have long been at odds with one another about how to treat HIV/AIDS. But in the Umgungundlovu district, which has the highest HIV prevalence in the country, integration of the two is starting to happen.

THE district chairperson, Francis Lukooya Mukoome has attributed the high HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the area on defilement. He said the HIV prevalence rate in the district was 9.6% yet the national prevalence rate was 6.4%.