News from category: HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
Photo: Nomadic Communities Trust
Camels bringing condoms and medical supplies
SAMBURU, 31 August 2010 (PlusNews) – In the remote and rural district of Samburu, northern Kenya, where paved roads are scarce and motorised transport hard to …
Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN
Catching more than fish
ENTEBBE, 31 August 2010 (PlusNews) -
A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter …
Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN
Catching more than fish
ENTEBBE, 31 August 2010 (PlusNews) – A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a …
Photo: Charles Akena/IRIN
Only about half the people in need of ARVs are getting them
KAMPALA, 25 August 2010 (PlusNews) – More Ugandan HIV patients are set to receive life-prolonging medication after the United States President’s …
Photo: IOM
More women are coming forward with stories of being sterilised
JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later …
Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN
Catching more than fish
ENTEBBE, 31 August 2010 (PlusNews) – A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a …
Photo: IOM
More women are coming forward with stories of being sterilised
JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later …
Photo: James Hall/IRIN
Striking health workers, disrupted HIV treatment
JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as …
Photo: James Hall/IRIN
Striking health workers, disrupted HIV treatment
JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as …
Photo: James Hall/IRIN
Striking health workers, disrupted HIV treatment
JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as …
Photo: Eric Kanalstein/UNMIL
Activists say poor prison conditions could be detrimental to the men’s health
NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Kenyan government officials have defended the arrest and incarceration of two men infected with multi-drug …
Photo: James Hall/IRIN
Striking health workers, disrupted HIV treatment
JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as …
Photo: Positive Convention
“I have two children who are HIV-negative and a partner that is HIV-negative, and it all happened because of the knowledge that I had”
JOHANNESBURG, 26 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Journalist and …
Photo: Positive Convention
“I have two children who are HIV-negative and a partner that is HIV-negative, and it all happened because of the knowledge that I had”
JOHANNESBURG, 26 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Journalist and …
Photo: Eric Kanalstein/UNMIL
Activists say poor prison conditions could be detrimental to the men’s health
NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Kenyan government officials have defended the arrest and incarceration of two men infected with multi-drug …
Photo: James Hall/IRIN
Striking health workers, disrupted HIV treatment
JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as …
