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2002 UN
Country Team and Resident Coordinator Report, Ethiopia |
HIV/AIDS
remains a major challenge in Ethiopia. During 2002 the UNCT
conducted intensive awareness and advocacy campaigns. Through
its campaigns and collaboration with other development
partners the UNCT has succeeded in having HIV/AIDS
incorporated in important national processes and policies. |
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3
Million Nigerians Infected with HIV/AIDS
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Minister
for Cooperation and Integration in Africa, Chief (Dr.) Bimbola
Ogunkelu, has revealed that about 3.47 million Nigerians are
infected with the dreaded disease, HIV/AIDS, with one person
getting infected every minute, while about 1.4 million are
dead so far.
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10-yr. Strategy for increasing Capital Flows to Africa |
Africa’s
economic isolation has deep implications for world stability,
commerce, and indeed, humanity |
501 kb pdf |
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68%
rise in AIDS Deaths Among Prisoners
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THE number of HIV-infected prisoners in Namibia rose by 68
per cent from 2000 to 2001, a report released this week said.
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2004 World Population Data Sheet |
Looking at
the trend over that period, 14 African countries are estimated
to have had a decline in their HIV/AIDS prevalence, led by
Kenya and Uganda. In contrast, 24 African countries are
believed to have shown either no decrease or a rise in
HIV/AIDS prevalence. |
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A Call For Community: Two Papers on HIV and AIDS Related
Stigma in Africa |
It is
widely recognized that HIV/AIDS-related stigma is both
widespread and a significant obstacle to the provision of
effective care and prevention measures. Beyond that
statement, however, little is certain in terms of how
pervasive HIV/AIDS-related stigma is, what its causes are,
what forms it takes and what steps can be taken to reduce or
eliminate it in the many different settings in which it
occurs. Indeed, it is possible that the word stigma itself
is inappropriate or does not cover the full range of
negative actions and attitudes that may be directed towards
people living with HIV/AIDS or are otherwise identified with
the disease. |
Pdf 486 kb |
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A Spatially Explicit Modelling Approach to
Socio-economic Development in South Africa |
South
Africa finds itself at a development cross road: optimism
for ‘high road’ development is bisected by a wasteland of
poverty and overpopulation. Intervention policies are
largely ‘faith-based’, even in the face of rising
uncertainties surrounding population growth, HIV/Aids and
resource availability. Added to this are the complexities
of disparate spatial development and social scenarios, mass
urbanization and immigration. |
Pdf 223 kb |
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Addressing
HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination in Africa
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By
focusing on the community and its institutions - health
facilities, the workplace, schools, and religious groups - as
the basis for analysis, ICRW and its partners will gain an
understanding of those factors that perpetuate or mitigate
stigma and create barriers to HIV prevention, care, and
support efforts. The CHANGE Project/Academy for Educational
Development (AED) will use the research findings to develop
pilot interventions that minimize these barriers.
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Addressing HIV-related
stigma and resulting discrimination.
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From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been
accompanied by an epidemic of fear, ignorance, and denial,
leading to stigmatization of and discrimination against people
with HIV/AIDS and their family members.
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Pdf 53 kb
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Adolescents through the Lifecourse: Variation in Cultures
of Sexuality and Risk in Rural South Africa |
Within the context of South Africa’s severe HIV epidemic,
young people face a disproportionate risk. With more
than 10% of those aged 15-24 infected, the epidemic impacts
heavily on this age group. Factors associated with
heightened sexual risk in young people include women having an
older partner, multiple partnerships, especially for men, and
inconsistent condom use.
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Pdf 194 kb |
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Adult Mortality in the Era of HIV/AIDS:
Sub-Saharan Africa |
The strong
age-specific impact of HIV on mortality is reshaping the
population structure of African countries with substantial
epidemics. The survival of adults in the worst effected
countries is substantially reduced which will eventually
depopulate certain tiers of the age pyramid, reducing the
number of adults available to reproduce, and this together
with the impact of HIV on fertility itself, will
substantially alter the age distribution of severely
impacted African populations for many decades to come |
Pdf 611 kb |
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Advocacy
for Action on Stigma and HIV/AIDS.
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In the AIDS context, stigma is most simply defined as
negative thoughts about a person or group based on a
prejudiced position. The
‘undesirable differences’ and ‘spoiled identities’
that HIV/AIDS related stigma causes do not naturally exist,
they are created by individuals and by communities.
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Pdf 516 kb
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African AIDS: Impacts
of Globalization, Pharmaceutical Apartheid, and Treatment
Activism |
Worldwide,
but especially in Africa, a disproportionate number of
infections occur in late teenage and young adult years.
Although HIV/AIDS in African affects both men and women,
women how have a higher overall infection rate than men, and
women contract the virus at a munch younger age, 5-10 years
earlier, because of numerous co-factors, including cross-age
sex between younger teenage women and older, already
infected men, the effects of young age and STD’s on vaginal
susceptibility to viral transmission, and lack of power of
younger women to negotiate safer sex practices. |
385 kb pdf |
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Africa
AIDS testing problems--Bangui
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The headline figures are horrible: almost 30 million
Africans have HIV/Aids. But, says Rian Malan, the figures are
computer-generated estimates and they appear grotesquely
exaggerated when set against population statistics
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Africa: The Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS |
It is at
the level of the family and community that the fullest
impacts of the HIV pandemic is unraveling. One such
ramification is AIDS related poverty among households.
Across the African continent, the most vulnerable people are
the most economically active. As these active people die,
families are struggling to cope not just emotionally, but
also economically. Poverty is increasing as bread-winners
die and scarce savings are utilized in the period of ill
health. As savings dwindle, families begin to fragment
economically. One implication of this fragmentation of
families is the rising numbers of orphan children on our
continent. |
Pdf 1104
kb |
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African
Microenterprise AIDS Initiative- Preventing the spread of
HIV/AIDS by empowering women in Africa |
Disadvantaged African women require both economic empowerment
and HIV/AIDS education to significantly reduce their
susceptibility to the HIV virus. Their lack of resources and
understanding constrains them to high-risk sexual behavior |
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African Women Acting Together Against HIV/AIDS
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The
chaotic pandemic of HIV/AIDS continues to have a devastating
impact on African women, young people and children. It
became the principal economic, social, cultural, political
and religious issue influencing daily life in Africa. The
tremendous impact and the rapidity of the spread of HIV/AIDS
have changed the African’s view on the pandemic. Long gone
is the time when many were in denial of the disaster. Today,
everyone in Africa knows that denying the reality of the
evil doesn’t save human lives. |
Pdf 1183
kb |
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Age and AIDS: a Lethal
Mix for South Africa’s Crime Rate |
Barring a
miracle whereby an inexpensive cure is found for AIDS, the
coming decades will be harsh on South Africa. AIDS will
decimate the country’s pool of young workers, and place
substantial pressure on an already overburdened public
health system. Decreasing levels of productivity and a
reduction in the country’s gross national product will
follow. The disease is also hitting South Africa at the
worst possible time when the number of juveniles as a
proportion of the general population will be at a high
point. This, and the resulting surge in the number of
orphans, will create a sustained upward pressure on crime
rates throughout the country |
173 kb pdf |
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AIDS, Economics and Terrorism in Africa |
After
years of denial, there is now little debate about the economic
impact of AIDS in countries with high prevalence rates. AIDS
kills people in the most productive years of their lives and
leads to dramatic increases in private and public health care
spending while tax revenues decline. Foreign investors are
less likely to invest in areas with high HIV prevalence
because AIDS decimates human capital and reduces public
investment in education. |
158 kb pdf |
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AIDS & child labour in Zambia-assessment |
This study
complement rapid assessments…These studies, which address the
complex relationship between health issues and exploitative
labour, shed light on new dimensions of children’s sufferings. |
436 kb pdf |
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AIDS & the Workplace: forging innovative business responses |
Businesses
throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the rest of the
world are increasingly recognizing that HIV infection and AIDS
can affect productivity and profitability |
293 kb pdf |
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AIDS and Violent Conflict in Africa
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No where
is the picture as bleak as in sub-Saharan Africa: mo re than
25 million Africa ns infected with HIV/AIDS (70 percent of
the world’s cases) and 17 million dead; on its current
trajectory, by 2010 the disease will decrease life
expectancy on the continent to levels found at the beginning
of the last cent u r y. These most recent data far surpass
the most pessimistic predictions about the effects of the
disease in Africa made just five years ago |
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New
reports are beginning to describe the full extent of this
African tragedy. One study ("AIDS Poverty Reduction and Debt
Relief: Implications for Poverty Reduction" by UNAIDS and
the World Bank, March 2001) has found that HIV-induced
declines in gross domestic product (GDP) levels in
sub-Saharan Africa are severely undermining poverty
reduction efforts in developing countries. According to the
report, the pandemic is shaving off up to two percent of
annual economic growth in the worst affected countries. Some
countries will see their gross national product (GNP) shrink
by up to 40 percent within 20 years. On the whole, the study
suggests, Africa's income growth per capita is being reduced
by about 0.7 percent per year because of HIV/AIDS. Another
study concludes that by 2010, per capita income in South
Africa, Africa's most robust economy, will drop by 7-10
percent while the GDP will be 17 percent lower than it would
have been without AIDS |
pdf 139 kb |
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AIDS and
AFRICA a Gender Driven Catastrophe |
This level
of spending becomes all the more criminal when it is clear
that many countries spend more on their military than on the
fight against AIDS. "By it's own figures the Zimbabwean
government spends seventy times the amount that goes to HIV
programs on its support of the war in the Congo-a conflict
with no direct implications for Zimbabwe." |
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AIDS…Hidden Crisis In Arab, Islamic Countries |
As the
number of AIDS patients has risen to a surprising - yet
alarming - levels in Arab and Islamic countries over the last
few years, many take the blame for the shortcomings to
deep-rooted reticence about discussing the epidemic and
reluctance of unscrupulous governments and apparently
conservative societies to admit it. |
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AIDS in South Africa: Why the Churches Matter
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South
Africa has the world’s second largest AIDS epidemic (in
gross numbers). Its neighbor, Zimbabwe, ranks first. During
the past ten years, while AIDS has come under control in
central African countries with far fewer resources, the
disease has gone out of control in South Africa, in the
richest, most cosmopolitan nation in the whole sub-Saharan
region. An estimated 10 million South Africans, out of a
population of approximately 40 million, will die of AIDS
during the next ten years. |
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AIDS is cutting African life spans |
In
AIDS-ravaged parts of southern Africa adult mortality is
higher than it was 30 years ago, the World Health Organization
said Thursday. |
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AIDS/HIV IN SIERRA LEONE: THE KILLER IS ALREADY IN OUR MIDST |
NOW, at
last, we can openly discuss it. HIV/AIDS is no longer a
taboo subject in Sierra Leone. There are believed to be tens
of thousands of our citizens carrying the HIV/AIDS
infection. It is conservatively estimated that in 1999 over
8,000 people died from full-blown AIDS. Now we are told that
a significant proportion of recruits in the new Sierra Leone
army and large numbers of former and possibly current
members of the peacekeeping ECOMOG/UNAMSIL contingents in
Sierra Leone were, or are, carriers of HIV. Some people have
speculated further that a similar situation exists among the
rebel army and in rebel held areas. |
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African Media Women Professional, HIV/AIDS and the Cultural
Factor |
This
report is of a presentation and recommendations. The main
objective of this seminar was to examine the cultural,
professional and social constraints media women professionals
encounter in Africa within their traditional environment…the
seminar aimed to determine the impact of reporting on HIV/AIDS
in specific contexts in Africa and to in order to determine
whether the way HIV/AIDS treated in the media contributes to
intensifying or reducing the stigmatization of people living
with AIDS |
1342 kb
pdf |
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AIDS pandemic reduces lifespan by
20 years |
The full
scale of the devastation wreaked on Africa by the Aids
epidemic was revealed in the World Health Organization’s
annual report yesterday. |
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AIDS Sunset Gives Way to New Dawn in Uganda |
Aids was
supposed to destroy Uganda. So why is it flourishing again?
Billions will be spent on powerful anti-Aids drugs for the
third world - but Uganda reversed its Aids epidemic without
them |
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AFRICA
AT THE CROSSROADS: AIDS
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In
this the education sector as a whole has failed and failed
dismally. The failures are numerous - the national department
has failed to place AIDS firmly within the curriculum. Teacher
unions and associations have failed to address AIDS as a
serious subject for inclusion in their practice. Parents have
failed in demanding that the schools fulfil their most basic
function - to prepare our children for the future. Many of the
non state schools have failed for they have on the whole
(erroneously) believed that AIDS would not affect them as
their children are 'not like that' and have an 'innocence'
which needs to be preserved.
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Africa
Embraces Anti-retroviral Therapy
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Whenever
the issue of using drug therapies to treat AIDS in Africa came
up in the last decade, many people argued that it couldn't be
done there.
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African
Perspectives on HIV/AIDS South Africa Discussion Session
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The
initial discussion was around the question in what ways is
it necessary to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa
differently from HIV/AIDS in the rest of the world?
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Africa's
men meet challenge of fighting HIV/AIDS
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"Iraq does not harbour weapons of mass destruction.
Africa does, and it is called HIV," says popular South
African comedian Pieter-Dirk Uys. "What's killing us is
the secret, not talking about AIDS. Silence kills."
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AIDS
Activists Condemn Police Action
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South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Monday
condemned the government's response to peaceful protestors
demanding a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan
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Aids
activists lose patience with allies
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The
National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (Napwa)
turned its guns on its allies as the hunger strike by several
of its members ended dramatically this week. They were
arrested after they allegedly forced entry into the
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association’s offices in
Midrand outside Johannesburg.
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AIDS
Activists to Launch Protest
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South African Aids activists said yesterday they would
start a nation-wide civil disobedience campaign to try to
force the government to provide life-prolonging
anti-retroviral drugs.
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AIDS
Analysis-Africa 1
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AIDS
and poverty: the links
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491 kb pdf
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AIDS
Analysis-Africa 2
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Anglo American’s new AIDS strategy: seeking to provide
anti-retrovirals to miners
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288 kb pdf
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AIDS
Analysis-Africa-3
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New
AIDS strategy
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310 kb pdf |
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AIDS & Communication
Issues.
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Presentation at the VIII Communication For Development
Roundtable—Nicaragua
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Pdf 95 kb
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AIDS
and Democracy in Southern Africa
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Report
on a two day workshop set out to consider the lineages between
HIV/AIDS and democracy
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104 kb pdf
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AIDS & Development-case studies -
conceptual Framework.
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The shape and form of an epidemic reflect the economic,
political and cultural characteristics of any society.
Ifg the causes and consequences of the epidemic are to
be addressed, a new conceptual framework is required
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Pdf 71 kb
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Aids
Awareness Games in Bimbilla
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The
Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC), an NGO, is using
the medium of sports and quiz competitions to spread the
message of HIV/AIDS among the youth.
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AIDS
Impact Model (AIM) Approach
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Toolkit
for building political commitment for effective HIV/AIDS
policies and programs
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774 kb pdf
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AIDS
in Ethiopia
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The
rapid expansion of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
has rendered efforts in bringing about significant improvements
in economic and social conditions extremely complex
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437 kb pdf
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Aids
in Kenya: The social and economic impacts of AIDS
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One
of the worst impacts of AIDS deaths to young adults is an
increase in the number of orphans. We define an AIDS orphan as
a child under the age of 15 who has lost the mother to AIDS.
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AIDS
is cutting African Life Span to 30-year Low
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In AIDS-ravaged parts of southern Africa adult mortality is
higher than it was 30 years ago, the World Health Organization
said Thursday.
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AIDS
need not wipe out millions
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The mortality figures released this week by Statistics
South Africa are a timely warning about our lifestyle as a
nation.
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AIDS on Adult Mortality in South Africa. |
This report is
a chilling reminder of how powerful stereotypes across society
have colluded in creating the most explosive epidemic in the
history of our country. Comprehensive, powerful
and rigorous as these data are, they can be seized upon
positively by individuals, government and society to intervene
at many levels such that no South African person, family or
community has to live under the cloud of this vicious and
unrelenting epidemic |
503 kb pdf |
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AIDS on
Children.
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This
report analyses the socio-economic impacts of HIV/AIDS on
children in Uganda, with specific focus on their health,
education and social welfare, and on the current and future
policy/program responses in the field of prevention, treatment
and mitigation.
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235 kb pdf
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AIDS
Pandemic Reduces Life Expectancy in Africa by 20 years
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The full scale of the devastation wreaked on Africa by the
Aids epidemic was revealed in the World Health Organisation's
annual report yesterday. Life expectancy in some African
countries has fallen by 20 years in the past decade, mainly
due to the HIV/Aids crisis.
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AIDS
prevalence numbers in Africa-2003
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In
this study published in AIDS, the authors found an extremely
high prevalence of HIV among young women (34%) and men (9%)
aged 14-24 years from a township in the Carletonville district
of South Africa. HIV prevalence among women aged 24 was 66%,
one of the highest rates ever reported in a general
population.
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AIDS
ravages landlocked kingdom of Swaziland
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The
landlocked African kingdom of Swaziland is believed to have
the world’s highest rate of HIV, with almost four out of 10
adults infected with the virus which causes Aids.
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AIDS
Task team about to Complete Its Work
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Cabinet says the team tasked with investigating resource
implications for providing anti-AIDS drug to people living
with HIV/AIDS in South Africa, is about to complete its work.
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AIDS
Threatens SME
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The
future success of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and the
livelihood of many South Africans could soon be off the
economic radar screen if business fails to deal with the
destructive HIV/AIDS threatening the SME.
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AIDS
to Hit Workforce in '03
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South Africa's economy will be hard hit in 2003 as hundreds
of thousands of HIV-infected workers develop full-blown Aids,
and few companies have prepared for this.
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AIDS, economics & Governance in SA key
issues.
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In the review it was noted that many gaps existed in the
literature, and that there was a generally poor understanding
of crucial issues that inform impact, policy and response.
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Pdf 710 kb
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Aids,
Hunger, Terror Threaten World Security
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Even
as the world gears up for another major world conflict the UN
says world security is threatened not only by the crises
currently dominating the headlines but by AIDS, hunger and the
"dreams of obscure vengeance" from political
terrorists "whose only achievements are the sudden
screams of innocent people."
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AIDS
IN SIERRA LEONE: THE KILLER IS ALREADY IN OUR MIDST
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NOW,
at last, we can openly discuss it. HIV/AIDS is no longer a
taboo subject in Sierra Leone. There are believed to be tens
of thousands of our citizens carrying the HIV/AIDS infection.
It is conservatively estimated that in 1999 over 8,000 people
died from full-blown AIDS. Now we are told that a significant
proportion of recruits in the new Sierra Leone army and large
numbers of former and possibly current members of the
peacekeeping ECOMOG/UNAMSIL contingents in Sierra Leone were,
or are, carriers of HIV.
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AIDS-related stigma among adolescents in
Botswana.
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There exists little or no research at all dealing with the
investigation of how people living with HIV/AIDS or suspected
of having HIV/AIDS are perceived and treated in Botswana
because of their illness.
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Pdf 75 kb
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Allies
of AIDS-Among warring factions in Congo, disease is mutating
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Uganda-It was born out of war, spread in war and may now be
mutating into an explosive nightmare amid war. HIV, soldiers,
rape and prostitutes: These are the elements that spawned and
spread Africa's horrendous AIDS epidemic.
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Allocating
HIV-Prevention Resources: Balancing Efficiency and Equity
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The
primary goal of HIV prevention is to prevent as many
infections as possible. This requires allocating HIV
prevention resources according to cost-effectiveness principles.
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96 kb pdf
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Allocating
HIV-Prevention Resources: Balancing Efficiency and Equity
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The
primary goal of HIV prevention is to prevent as many
infections as possible. This requires allocating HIV
prevention resources according to cost-effectiveness principles.
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An
analysis of the policies, pronouncements and programmes on
HIV-related stigma and discrimination in Nigeria
(Large report-increased
down-load time)
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More than two decades into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, stigma
and discrimination against people who have HIV/AIDS (PLWH) or are affected by HIV
continue unabated. Although the global pandemic has shown
itself capable of triggering responses of compassion,
solidarity and support, bringing out the best in people, their
families and communities yet stigma and ostracism, repression
and discrimination continue to be reported in both the rich
developed and poor developing countries of the world.
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ANGOLA: Enthusiastic caregivers and silent sufferers |
Fear of
stigmatisation in Angola is keeping people living with
HIV/AIDS in hiding. Caregivers are more than willing to help
but are having a hard time finding patients to take care of. |
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As Hunger Stalks Southern Africa, HIV/AIDS is the Price
Women Pay |
The high
HIV/AIDS infection rate is exacerbating the food crisis,
according to a recent Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)
report. Subsistence farmers, who make up the bulk of most
countries' populations, are struggling to produce enough
food to survive.
"The
disease is no longer a health problem alone, but is having a
measurable impact on food production, household food
security and rural people's ability to make a living," the
report said. |
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ASSA
AIDS and Demographic Models
(Large report-increased
download time)
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This
guide begins with an overview of modelling of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in South Africa, which is presented in section 2.
Section 3 provides information on the structure of the model.
It comprises a brief description of the nature and basis of
the assumptions, the location of different aspects of the
model on the worksheets, and information about which
assumptions and values can be changed by the user.
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Assessment of trends in Child Mortality-Tanzania.
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Comparing the results of the TRCHS 1999 with the TDHS 1996
suggests that child mortality in Tanzania has increased.
Yet, five-year trends within the TRCHS suggest the
opposite
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Pdf 95 kb
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Baseline survey of sexually transmitted infections in a
cohort of female bar workers in Mbeya Region, Tanzania |
Our study
shows that prevalences of STI and HIV are very high
among female bar workers in Mbeya Region. Taken
together with the data on high risk behaviours—for
example, low prevalence of reported condom use
with both regular and casual partners, these
findings reveal a largely unmet need for interventions
supporting behaviour change and effective STI care for
female bar workers and their male clients in
order to reduce the transmissions of STI and HIV
and the negative health and social impact of
untreated infection. |
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Benghazi
epidemic
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Beshkov elaborates that in-hospital infections and in
particular those caused by blood-transmitted agents such as
microbes and viruses have been recorded as far back as the
early 20th century when the mass use of syringes started. The
first recorded case of an in-hospital infection dates to the
year 1917 when in England during the treatment of soldiers for
syphilis they were infected with malaria. This is the first
documented epidemiological outbreak caused by an in-hospital
infection.
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Bipartisan
Legislation to combat Worldwide HIV/AIDS Threat
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A bipartisan coalition of House members, including the
chairman and ranking Democrat on the House International
Relations Committee, today introduced a comprehensive
five-year response to the growing worldwide threat from
HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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Borderline
Slavery-child trafficking in Togo |
This
report documents the trafficking of children in Togo, in
particular the trafficking of girls into domestic and market
work and the trafficking of boys into agricultural work. They
are recruited on false promise of education, professional
training and paid employment…if they escape or are released,
denied the protections necessary to reintegrate them into
society. |
8,395 kb
pdf |
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Botswana,
the Bushmen/San, and HIV/AIDS
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The catastrophic HIV/Aids pandemic in southern Africa
threatens even its most vigorous economy, Botswana. But it is
displacement and dispossession that create the greatest
vulnerability to HIV. And it may be that rights to land and a
people's level of confidence in their own identity are a
central means of protection against ravaging illness
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Building
African AIDS Care from the Ground Up
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Outside
of Africa, one country has already turned political will
and momentum into a reality and, in doing so, has energized
the international AIDS community to act more boldly in
Africa. Brazil stunned the world in 1996 by
mandating universal access to free antiretroviral
agents as part of its national AIDS program. To
provide such access, Brazil not only negotiated reduced drug
prices from pharmaceutical companies but also decided to
make generic versions of some antiretroviral drugs
domestically.
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Bush
blocks deal allowing cheap drugs
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George
Bush's close links with the drugs industry were last night
blamed for the failure of talks in Geneva aimed at securing
access to cheap medicines for developing countries.
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Cabinet
Urges Unity in Fight Against AIDS
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The government task team investigating a comprehensive
antiretroviral treatment plan for HIV/AIDS sufferers would
complete its work within weeks, cabinet said yesterday.
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Call
to Move AIDS Council
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Members demanded to know why the National Aids Control
Council operated under the office of the President.
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Can
Africa handle AIDS drugs?
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Twenty years after HIV was discovered by scientists, the
rich countries seem to have come around at last to the idea of
funding a global campaign, and nowhere needs greater help than
sub-Saharan Africa. But
a US pioneer of HIV/Aids research, Professor Robert Gallo, has
suggested to the BBC that "throwing drugs" at that
region could be a recipe for disaster.
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Carefree
Nurse Frustrates Health Delivery System
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Botswana health officials have been testing 170 primary
school children for HIV, after a nurse on February 20, threw
the country's health delivery system into despair, by using
the same syringe to immunise the children against childhood
diseases.
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Causes & Consequences of
HIV/AIDS in Africa .
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Presentation by Professor Alan Whiteside Director of the
Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division—Durgan
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Pdf 1,199 kb
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Changing
the Burden of Disease in Southern Africa
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Discussion around President Mbeki’s recent AIDS panel has
focused on his decision to include the views of “HIV
dissidents” including Peter Duesberg and others, who
maintain that HIV is benign.
“African AIDS,” according to Duesberg, “is caused
by malnutrition, parasitic infection and poor sanitation.
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Children,
HIV/AIDS and Communication in South Africa
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The
basic principle of this report is that children’s rights
should be monitored in a holistic and systematic fashion
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173 kb pdf
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Children, AIDS & Communication in SA-bio
list.
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To provide insight into issues related to communication of
HIV/AIDS to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an
emphasis on South Africa
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Pdf 147 kb |
