News on Sub-Saharan Africa

Global AIDS funding cuts will affect millions: activists

2011-11-28T15:30:27Z

A $1.6-billion (1.2-billion-euro) cut in funding for AIDS treatment could affect millions of people as donors failed to meet commitments to the Global Fund, campaigners said Monday.

The Global Fund last week said it would not bankroll new AIDS treatment projects until 2014 because the world financial crisis forced donor countries to cut spending.

A civil society coalition including groups like aid agency Sub-Saharan Africa, the region which has long been worst hit by the AIDS epidemic, leading to a steady drop in deaths, the United Nations said Monday.

"The most dramatic increases in anti-retroviral therapy coverage have occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, with a 20 percent increase between 2009 and 2010 alone," ...

AIDS awareness boosts global health funding

2010-11-30T13:31:10Z

Wealthy nations boosted funding for health programs in poor countries more than fourfold between 1990 and 2010, thanks largely to greater awareness of the need to fight HIV/AIDS, a report released Tuesday said.

Research by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) found that development assistance for health programs jumped from 5.66 bill...

Best to focus on preventing HIV in Africa: report

2010-11-29T10:00:22Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts to treat everyone in Africa infected with the AIDS virus are virtually futile, and public health experts should instead focus on preventing new cases, a committee of experts reported on Monday.

Currently 22.5 million people in Africa have HIV, but this number will rise to more than 30 million by 2020 -- far more than ...

Access to AIDS treatment 'cutting deaths in Africa'

2010-11-23T12:31:07Z

Expanded access to AIDS treatment in sub-Saharan Africa has dramatically cut deaths from the disease, but the region remains the worst affected in the world, a UN report said Tuesday.

Sub-Saharan Africa saw an estimated 320,000 fewer people die of HIV-related causes in 2009 than in 2004, when the region began to dramatically scale up access to anti-AIDS dr...

Health

2010-11-29T14:56:11Z

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Controlling the AIDS epidemic in Africa

2010-11-29T15:18:52Z

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New Methods May Help Predict Survival of African HIV Patients

2010-09-10T20:13:01Z

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HIV gel breakthrough lifts mood at AIDS conference

2010-07-20T06:16:28Z

A breakthrough test of a vaginal gel to protect women against HIV unleashed a wave of optimism at the world AIDS conference on Tuesday after two days of rows over funding.

Hearty applause broke out in the main hall of the Vienna congress centre where delegates were told of the research unveiled in the US journal Science the night before.

Organisers hastily...

Vaginal Gel Renews Hope for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Women

2010-11-02T14:12:40Z

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Fungus-tainted corn a factor in Africa HIV spread?

2010-10-13T14:37:02Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study raises the question of whether corn contaminated with a fungus-derived toxin is helping to facilitate the transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

The toxins, called fumonisins, are produced by a particular type of fungus that can grow in corn after the plant is damaged by pests such as the cornstalk borer.

Malaria, AIDS, TB in retreat: Global Fund

2010-03-08T08:15:27Z

GENEVA (Reuters) - Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international organization that funds the treatment and prevention of killer diseases said on Monday.

The elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- is within reach by 2015, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said.

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Sub-Saharan Africa leads global HIV infections: UNAIDS

2010-04-16T08:54:46Z

Sub-Saharan Africa still has the world's highest number of HIV cases, accounting for 67 percent of global infections, a United Nations reports said on Tuesday.

"An estimated 1.9 million people were newly infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in 2008, bringing to 22.4 million the number of people living with HIV," the The Lancet.

Epidemiologists pored over data from the 2.6 million deaths that occurred among the world's population of 1.8 billion aged between 10 and 24 in 2004.

Road accidents accounted for 10 percent of the deaths; suicide 6.3 percent;...

DARK DAYS FOR THE DARK CONTINENT

2010-10-22T11:05:25Z

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Facts and Figures: HIV and AIDS

2010-10-22T07:51:24Z

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Stigma driving AIDS crisis among African gays: Lancet

2010-04-16T11:15:33Z

Rates of HIV infection among gays in some African countries are 10 times that of the general male population, and stigma, poor access to treatment or testing are to blame, doctors said in The Lancet.

A wall of silence, repression and discrimination are amplifying dangers for men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa, they said in a paper published online on ...

Bush reaffirms US commitment to fight AIDS

2010-06-25T23:52:28Z

US President George W. Bush marked World AIDS Day on Monday by highlighting his dramatic and widely praised overhaul of US efforts to battle the deadly disease, particularly in Africa.

Bush, pointing to a 28-foot red ribbon (8.5 meters) hanging from the White Hous...

UNAIDS's "2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic"

2010-11-03T09:17:36Z

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US triples AIDS, malaria, TB funds for poorest countries

2010-06-26T02:08:24Z

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed legislation tripling funds to fight the killer diseases of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the world's poorest countries, mainly in Africa.

Congress approved a package earlier this month which lifted funding for the five-year program from 15 billion dollars, set in 2003, to the 48 billion dollars signed into law by Bush.

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African HIV patients do adhere to their medication

2010-10-15T20:30:30Z

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statistics are sobering

2010-10-15T18:38:12Z

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Growth of African HIV epidemic slows

2010-10-15T18:37:55Z

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Broken promises

2010-10-15T18:37:53Z

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Birds in the African Wilderness

2010-04-08T12:51:00Z

Dec 18, 2008 - Nature Reserve, Africa - The Lilac-breasted Roller (Coracias caudatus) is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa

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Animals of Masai Mara Reserve

2010-04-08T12:51:22Z

Dec 17, 2008 - Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya - A Cape Porcupine or South African Porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) is a species of Old World porcupine that inhabits much of sub-Saharan Africa