Topic: Africa
In the shadow of Mugabe's clashes with the West, a US project wages war on AIDS in ZimbabweThe U.S. ranks high on President Robert Mugabe's enemies list, but at ground level it is leading a war on AIDS that may help save ...
The words HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immunity deficiency syndrome) have become synonymous on a global basis, associated with feelings of hate, fear, terror, death, and ignorance. Many questions are being asked by scientists and certain segments of the medical ...
I recently watched the 2004 movie, Lord of War. Hollywood actor, Nicholas Cage played an arms dealer whose clients included corrupt, Russian generals and African dictators. In a major part of the film, Cage's character met with a Liberian strongman. When the ...
HIV/AIDS is a horrible disease anywhere in the world, but especially in areas where lack of education on the subject causes rapid spread. Increased literacy in Africa would also give the people a better chance of being informed about the specific prevention ...
The raging controversy over Nigeria's best private university's policy of conducting an HIV/AIDS and pregnancy test on its new and graduating students has been on for some time now. Though, relevant education authorities in Nigeria like the Nigerian university commission (N.U.C.), have ...
And the vital link between Aids and marriage in Africa is the bride price. A UN country report on Zimbabwe, entitled Facing the Future Together' and released in 2004, noted that one in five of the women they surveyed between the ages ...
When I heard over the news that President Mbeki won't admit that HIV causes AIDS I was sweating! South Africa is thought by most in the African continent to be the first world of Africa. When I worked at Queen II Hospital ...
To the tragedy of the 17 million people who have lost their lives to AIDS in Africa, add the 12 million orphaned children left behind. Of these an estimated 930,000 have lost at least one parent to AIDS. Housing, feeding, educating and ...
Beginning in April 2009, the world witnessed the first influenza pandemic in more than four decades-influenza A H1N1. By year's end 12,220 deaths had been reported worldwide, and the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the pandemic on the decline. As a ...
/aids-acquired-immune-deficiency-syndrome" title="AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)" >AIDS in Africa is a continuing and growing public health crisis. While Africa contains only 12% of the world's population, it also contains more than 60% of the HIV and AIDS infected population. Africa In 2003 ...
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