In Postwar Era, Angolans Now  Face Threat Of HIV-AIDS
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HUAMBO, Angola -- Manuel Faustino Gomes, 15, lost both his parents during Angola's long civil war and spent years as a child of the streets, scrambling to survive in this battered city.
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MAPUTO, Mozambique - AIDS has sharply reduced life expectancy in Mozambique and threatens to derail reconstruction efforts after years of civil war in the southern African country, Health Ministry officials said Friday.
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Earlier this month, the World AIDS Day observance focused on how this epidemic has killed, sickened and threatened women and girls around the globe.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 December (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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The spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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With more than 1.8 million people living with HIV in Europe and Central Asia, the epidemic poses a serious threat to the region's social and economic stability, according to the Joint United Nations Programme ...
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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The biggest challenge in the global fight against AIDS is no longer money for drug research and treatment but the lack of local health services in nations worst-hit by the disease, the World Bank said on Monday.
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Hundreds of senior public officials in Africa have recently started vigorous public campaigns to fight AIDS, representing a significant break from more than two decades of relative silence among those in the highest positions.
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Over two million elderly Tanzanian women are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS due to neglect, ignorance and poverty, a new study by HelpAge International has revealed.
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Women in India, home to the world's second largest HIV population after South Africa, are becoming more vulnerable to AIDS, leading to a growing "feminisation" of the epidemic, a U.N. expert said on Friday.
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As the World AIDS day of Dec. 1 draws nearer, Uganda announced its persistent fight against the HIV/AIDS scourge has started to pay off, with the
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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women&#39;s and Children&#39;s Health Symposium: The Feminization of HIV/Aids on Thursday, November 11, 2004, at the University of
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When Sharon Hollis was 27 she had heard of HIV and AIDS, but like most people, she thought it wouldn&#39;t happen to her. After her brother died in 1986 from HIV complications, she noticed that
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Tuberculosis, one of the oldest known infectious diseases, is now the leading cause of death for people with AIDS, causing concern that the deadly combination could become a health crisis in both the United States and abroad.