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Publication: IRIN Plusnews Service

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Circumcision plans go awry in Swaziland

MBABANE, 13 May 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - It was an ambitious plan to circumcise the majority of men in Swaziland, an effort to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in a country with the world's highest HIV prevalence. How could it have gone wrong? ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - May 13 2013]

Entities: Swaziland, Circumcision, HIV/AIDS

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Europe’s undocumented migrants struggle to access healthcare

NAIROBI, 25 April 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - Europe's financial crisis and rising xenophobia are complicating access to medical treatment for undocumented migrants, according to a new report by the international NGO Médecins du Monde (MdM). ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Health Care, Nairobi, Xenophobia

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Shortages of new one-a-day ARV pills in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, 19 April 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - Just days into the rollout of fixed-dose combination (FDC) antiretrovirals (ARVs) by South Africa's HIV treatment programme - the world's largest - activists are raising fears of drug shortages. ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: South Africa, Johannesburg, HIV/AIDS

First reported Apr 11 2013 - Updated Apr 11 2013 - 1 reports

Unwelcome side effects of mining in Mozambique

TETE, 11 April 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - It is 15.45 in the afternoon and two young women are already sitting outside the Night Clinic in Moatize, a small town in Mozambique's northern Tete Province, near one of the largest coal mines in the southern hemisphere, ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Apr 11 2013]

Entities: Mozambique, Mining, Tete (Mozambique)

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Les militants craignent que le VIH soit relégué à l’arrière-plan après 2015

BANGKOK , 3 April 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - Alors que les consultations globales lancées par le Panel de haut niveau des Nations Unies pour définir les priorités de développement post-2015 touchent à leur fin, PlusNews a interrogé des experts sur la place du ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Bangkok

First reported Mar 31 2013 - Updated Mar 31 2013 - 1 reports

Boost for healthcare in DRC

NAIROBI, 31 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - The British government has announced a major new programme aimed at providing essential healthcare to six million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The five-year, US$270.7 million project will focus ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 31 2013]

Entities: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Health Care, Nairobi, UK Government

First reported Mar 28 2013 - Updated Mar 28 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

Activists fear less focus on HIV after 2015

BANGKOK, 28 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - As a UN high-level panel completes worldwide consultations [ http://www.post2015hlp.org/ ] to pick development goals for 2015 and beyond, PlusNews consulted experts to see how HIV/AIDS might fit into this new agen ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 28 2013]

Entities: HIV/AIDS, Bangkok, United Nations

First reported Mar 25 2013 - Updated Mar 26 2013 - 1 reports

Indonesia to override patents for live-saving medicines

JAKARTA, 25 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - The Indonesian government hopes to implement one of the largest ever examples of “compulsory licensing”, which will enable the generic manufacture of drugs still under patent. ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 25 2013]

Entities: Patent, Indonesia, Jakarta

First reported Mar 19 2013 - Updated Mar 19 2013 - 1 reports

Tackling poverty and disease with innovative health financing

MAPUTO, 19 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - Mozambique has become the latest African country to implement a financial transaction tax (FTT) and airplane levy to fund health services in developing countries, part of the UNITAID initiative. Philippe Douste-Blazy, ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 19 2013]

Entities: Philippe Douste-Blazy, UNITAID, Maputo, Mozambique

First reported Mar 15 2013 - Updated Mar 15 2013 - 1 reports

Mozambique’s first HIV vaccine trial heralds new era in local research

MAPUTO, 15 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - Mozambique has completed its first HIV vaccine trial and is set to embark on a second, a demonstration of the country's increased HIV research capacity. ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 15 2013]

Entities: Mozambique, HIV/AIDS, Vaccine

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 15 2013 - 1 reports

Uganda government under pressure to boost ARV funding

KAMPALA, 14 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - The Ugandan government's draft 2013/2014 budget allocates US$38.5 million to enrol a further 100,000 people living with HIV on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But activists say the money, while welcome ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: Uganda, HIV/AIDS, Antiretroviral Drugs, Kampala

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 14 2013 - 1 reports

In Brief: Condoms needed in PNG prisons

BANGKOK, 14 March 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - A Papua New Guinea (PNG) study released today calls for condoms to be made more widely available in prisons. ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: Papua New Guinea, Bangkok

Quotes

UGANDA: Nnalongo Nakabuye, "Taking the drugs without food is taking yourself to the grave"

UGANDA: Nnalongo Nakabuye, "Taking the drugs without food is taking yourself to the grave" [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Dec 11 2012]

KENYA: Rita, "I feel cheated of my right to decide whether to give birth or not"

KENYA: Rita, "I feel cheated of my right to decide whether to give birth or not" [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Nov 30 2012]

COLOMBIA: David Gomez: "They didn't accept HIV-positive people ... they shot them and burned the bodies"

COLOMBIA: David Gomez: "They didn't accept HIV-positive people ... they shot them and burned the ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Nov 21 2008]

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Circumcision plans go awry in Swaziland [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - May 13 2013]
Europe’s undocumented migrants struggle to acce... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Apr 25 2013]
Shortages of new one-a-day ARV pills in South A... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Apr 19 2013]
Unwelcome side effects of mining in Mozambique [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Apr 11 2013]
Les militants craignent que le VIH soit relégué... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Apr 03 2013]
Boost for healthcare in DRC [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 31 2013]
Activists fear less focus on HIV after 2015 [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 28 2013]
Indonesia to override patents for live-saving m... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 25 2013]
Tackling poverty and disease with innovative he... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 19 2013]
Mozambique’s first HIV vaccine trial heralds ne... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 15 2013]
Uganda government under pressure to boost ARV f... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 14 2013]
In Brief: Condoms needed in PNG prisons [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 14 2013]
Third-line ARVs could widen treatment gap in Zi... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 12 2013]
Le financement de la lutte contre le VIH a-t-il... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 11 2013]
Has HIV funding revived lagging health systems? [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 06 2013]
HIV/AIDS: Disappointment in HIV prevention trial [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 05 2013]
Analysis: Condoms continue to confound Uganda [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Mar 01 2013]
Global Fund announces first new grants under ne... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Feb 28 2013]
Le rôle des lubrifiants dans la prévention des ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Feb 26 2013]
Des militants font pression sur les candidats à... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Feb 26 2013]
Kenya’s HIV programmes steel themselves for ele... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Feb 26 2013]
Activists pressure Kenya's presidential candida... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Feb 25 2013]
Lack of “lube” hurts HIV prevention [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Feb 21 2013]
Cervical cancer a major threat to HIV-positive ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Feb 08 2013]
Ugandan authorities concerned as HIV self-test ... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Feb 06 2013]
Uganda begins rollout of provider-initiated HIV... [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Jan 30 2013]
In Swaziland, child marriage still a grey area [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Jan 29 2013]
Ugandan HIV campaign targets "cheaters" [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Jan 23 2013]
Bringing HIV/AIDS out into the open in Liberia [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Jan 22 2013]
Fewer pregnant women with HIV in Congo [Published IRIN Plusnews Service - Jan 18 2013]