Tanzanian leader takes Aids test
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Tanzania's president and opposition leaders launch a campaign for voluntary HIV/Aids testing by being tested in public.
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In Tanzania, president announces a new effort to provide 5.2 million mosquito bed nets for children.
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Princess Kasune Zulu is infected with HIV and has lost both her parents to Aids. She works and campaigns for people infected with HIV/Aids in Africa through the aid and development agency World Vision.
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Botswana President Festus Mogae issued a blunt message to his people Wednesday on HIV/AIDS: abstain from unsafe sex or die. Botswana, which has one of the highest rates of HIV infection
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 17 -- President Bush made a long-distance appeal to Congress on Sunday to reauthorize and increase funding for his program to fight AIDS in Africa without tampering with controversial elements such as its emphasis on abstinence.
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Festus Mogae, the Botswana president, pledged to work hard on Aids and unemployment today as he was sworn in for a second term after winning an election praised by Western diplomats as a model for other African democracies.
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The Gambia today joins the rest of the world to mark World Aids Day, with President Jammeh calling on all leaders to use spiritual teachings and religious scriptures to emphasize morality in society as well as compassion, healing and support for People
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd, L) shakes hands with an AIDS patient in a Beijing hospital on Nov. 30, 2004.-- Xinhua. On the eve of the World AIDS Day, Chinese President Hu Jintao shook hands with AIDS patients
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A doctor retained by the World Bank to examine a program to combat the spread of HIV in India has been warning officials for months that defective testing kits could be putting people at risk.
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Former President Bill Clinton launched a program on Sunday to make subsidized malaria drugs available in Tanzania in a test scheme that could serve as a blueprint for Africa as a whole.
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U.S. President George W. Bush on  Sunday met Tanzania's leader to discuss Africa's political  crises before signing a nearly $700-million grant to help  stimulate economic growth in the east African nation.
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South Africa's deputy health  minister on Tuesday denied calling upon President Thabo Mbeki  to take a public AIDS test, but repeated that she believed it  was important for national leaders to be tested.
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Sen. Barack Obama and his wife took HIV tests before a crowd of thousands Saturday at a clinic in Kenya in an effort to battle the fear and social stigmas that have slowed progress in fighting the spread of AIDS.
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In an effort to reduce the incidence of AIDS in Japan, some public health centers have recently adopted a quick HIV testing regime that officials hope will be an effective tool for early stage detection and containment of the disease.
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China has approved human testing of a locally developed potential AIDS vaccine, the official Xinhua news agency said Friday, just days before World AIDS Day.
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East China&#39;s Shandong Province is planning to offer free HIV/AIDS tests to people who have been paid to give blood to help prevent the spread of the killer disease.
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New rules requiring that condoms be tested before and after shipment to Uganda have caused a shortage of the rubber prophylactic, which the east African country credits for curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, a senior health ministry official said.