News on West Africa

Africa demands more help at UN AIDS summit

2011-06-08T18:30:19Z

African leaders on Wednesday called for greater resources to battle the AIDS pandemic at a summit where UN leader Ban Ki-moon set a target of ending new infections by the end of the decade.

Thirty presidents and heads of government were at the summit marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, which will set a target figure for the numbers who will receive re...

Africa at the forefront of AIDS war after 30 years

2011-05-30T09:30:20Z

Home to 22.5 million people with HIV -- nearly 70 percent of the world's total -- sub-Saharan Africa bears the brunt of the 30-year-old AIDS pandemic.

Millions of lives have been destroyed, yet the war now shows signs of progress: infection rates are stabilising or dropping in many countries as access to life-saving drugs widens.

But the challenges are huge.

From Sesame Street, Nigerian style.

The local adaptation of the legendary children's educational television series hits Nigerian screens at the weekend with the same vocation as its award-winning American model: give p...

Africa turns to cellphones for better health

2011-03-30T03:30:11Z

The text message arrives with life-saving discretion: a neutral "see you at the clinic tomorrow" to remind patients to pick up a fresh batch of anti-AIDS drugs.

The free texts from South Africa's largest HIV treatment site are part of a push in Africa to boost health by targeting the continent's 624 million mobile phone subscribers.

"I check my cellphone all the ti...

The economic impact of AIDS in Africa

2010-11-29T15:59:38Z

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Students being subjected to compulsory HIV and pregnancy tests in universities in Nigeria

2010-11-29T15:50:53Z

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The crisis of Nigeria's orphans and vulnerable children

2010-11-29T15:40:54Z

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Senegal: The fight against HIV/AIDS

2010-11-29T15:40:48Z

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Access to antiretroviral therapy in Nigeria

2010-11-29T15:40:47Z

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What are the implications of the claim that a cure for AIDS has been found in the West African nation, Ghana

2010-11-29T15:04:15Z

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Cell phones latest tool to beat HIV-AIDS in Africa

2010-11-03T09:40:42Z

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The impact of Online Volunteering on my community

2010-11-03T03:21:59Z

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THE SEX APPEAL

2010-11-02T21:19:55Z

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Yams and mosquito nets on Nigeria's Sesame Street

2010-09-17T05:00:04Z

LAGOS (Reuters) - Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch have some new friends.

Meet Zobi, a yam-eating taxi driver, and Kami, a talkative five-year-old living with HIV.

"Sesame Street," the U.S. show which started ...

Sesame Street, Nigerian Style

2010-09-11T15:50:29Z

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Prisons emerge as hotspots for AIDS pandemic

2010-07-22T12:15:54Z

Prisons are excellent breeding grounds for HIV, enabling the AIDS virus to propagate swiftly and stealthily, yet many options exist for tackling the problem, the world AIDS conference heard.

Incidence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) runs far higher among the 30 million people in the world's penitentiaries than in the general population, according to the UN Office on...

Reaching disenfranchised youth and mobile populations in Ghana through voluntary counselling and testing services for HIV

2010-11-02T15:12:41Z

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Sociodemographic and clinical features of HIVpositive outpatients at a clinic in southwest Nigeria

2010-11-02T15:11:29Z

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Neurological manifestations of HIV infection in Nigerians

2010-11-02T15:11:30Z

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Zambian village glimpses first TV, tuned to World Cup

2010-06-26T15:15:39Z

In the sandy streets of Namuskekende village in remote western Zambia, hundreds of people gathered Saturday around a giant projection screen to see television for the first time.

The three-metre (10-foot) screen, powered by a generator and receiving broadcasts by satellite, flickered on with commercials before the Ghana-US match in South Africa

US donates tuberculosis facility to Nigeria

2010-06-14T13:16:30Z

The United States on Monday donated a multi-million dollar facility for the detection and treatment of tuberculosis to Nigeria, where around 400,000 people suffer from the disease.

Located on the outskirts of the northern city of Zaria, the facility includes a state-of-the-art bio-safety laboratory and a medical staff training centre as w...

Japan pledges 1.3 million dollars to Guinea mothers, babies

2010-03-15T10:17:47Z

Japan pledged Monday 1.3 million dollars (948,000 euros) for the UN's children's agency to improve health conditions for mothers and children in Guinea, the Japanese embassy said.

The funds handed to UNICEF will be used to buy thousands of birthing kits for mothers and respiratory masks and medi...

Nigeria HIV/AIDS cure claimant reacts to vaccine discovery

2010-10-14T12:58:37Z

A Nigerian Lab-Scientist and HIV/AIDS cure claimant Prince (Dr.) Ayodele Adeleye has reacted to the recent discovery of HIV/AIDS vaccine by a white man, stressing that the 33 percent vaccine discovered was far below what they have discovered in Nigeria.

Dr. Adeleye who made the ascertain in an interview said even though he has 90 percent cure for the dreaded disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) was yet to recognize him.

According to him, the 33% vaccine means that, out...

Uptake of voluntary counselling and testing for HIV by pregnant women in a preventionofmothertochildtransmission programme at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Nigeria

2010-10-22T12:17:20Z

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The effectiveness of a national communication campaign using religious leaders to reduce HIVrelated stigma in Ghana

2010-10-22T12:17:19Z

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Migration pastoralists HIV infection and access to care the nomadic Fulani of northern Nigeria

2010-10-22T11:45:33Z

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FDA approves new HIV test from Abbott Laboratories

2010-04-16T10:14:47Z

FDA approves Abbott Laboratories' test that screens for HIV types 1 and 2

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test from Abbott Laboratories that detects both types of the virus that causes AIDS.

The FDA says the company's Abbo...

NGO introduces HIV/AIDS cure

2010-10-14T12:58:48Z

This was made known to the press in a one-day workshop for Officers and Men entitled? the need to explore the ways out of HIV/AIDS menace in Nigeria? organized by an NGO, Media initiative against HIV/AIDS at 1 Div Nigerian Army at Kaduna state.

Ambassador Prince Ayo Adeleye a Fellow of Nigeria Medical, and Laboratory Science Council said ?He has been on 10 years of taming of the Virus having near 100% success and I grantees 2 days cure of HIV/AIDS. The system I apply as a fellow of my...

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

2010-10-06T02:23:31Z

AIDS is caused by the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which damages the body?s defense system. People infected with HIV usually live for years without any signs of the disease. They may look and feel healthy, but they can still pass on the virus to others.

HIV is a retrovirus with two primary types: HIV-1 and HIV-2. There are many strains of both types and all mutate rapidly, which has made it particularly difficult for researchers to find an effective vaccine or treatment for ...

My Virtual Mission

2010-11-03T09:15:58Z

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HIV-positive matchmaking brings hope in Nigeria

2010-04-16T15:55:31Z

When 32-year-old Talatu Umar tested positive two years ago after the death of her husband, she ruled out the possibility of ever marrying again.

But today Umar is the happily married mother of a three-month-old baby through a so-called "positive pair" dating and marriage scheme run by a Nigerian state-run agency.

Umar and her new husband Love in a time of AIDS: Nigerian patients encouraged to marry each other

With her golden dress shimmering in the sun and ornate henna tattoos covering her hands, Hauwa Idris is the picture of a radiant Nigerian bride. But her betrothal has hardly been typical: Both bride and groom are infected with the deadly AIDS virus and have been encouraged to wed by an unusual government program.

In Dealing With AIDS, Bovine Colostrum is a Potent Weapon For Better Health

2010-04-16T17:44:27Z

In Dealing With AIDS, Bovine Colostrum is a Potent Weapon For Better Health

By Jason Stuart

"In the time it takes for you to read what research has to say, you will discover a gift almost too good to be true for better health".

Somewhere between 70-75% of the body's immune fighting cells and the area responsible for defending against bacteria, viruses, parasites as well as damaged and dysfunctional cells such as cancer, are found in the gastrointestinal trac...

Anti-HIV hope, Tainted baby syrup, and more

2010-10-21T10:13:24Z

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UNAIDS deplores Senegal's jailing of gay men

2010-06-26T04:44:09Z

UNAIDS on Thursday criticised Senegal for jailing nine gay men, saying that homophobic acts would not help efforts to prevent HIV infection in the west African country.

"There is no place for homophobia. Universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support must be accessible to all people in Senegal who are in need -- including men who have sex with men," said UNAIDS Executive Di...

Group Calls For The Release Of Men Imprisoned For Being Gay

2010-06-25T16:02:28Z

Human rights groups are calling for the release of nine Senegalese men imprisoned for being gay

Human Rights Watch, a leading advocate of human rights worldwide, on Friday called for the immediate release of nine Senegalese men found guilty of being gay and given a harsh eight year sentence.

The men, including a prominent AIDS activist, w...

9 men jailed in Senegal for homosexual acts

2010-06-26T04:38:51Z

9 men convicted of homosexual acts, sentenced to 8 years in jail in Senegal

Nine men, including a prominent activist, have been convicted of homosexual acts and sentenced to eight years in prison, their lawyer and a gay rights group said Thursday.

Diadji Diouf, who heads an organization that provides HIV prevention services to gay men in Senegal, and the others were arrested last month in a raid on Diouf's apa...

Woman Burned Alive for Practicing Witchcraft

2010-10-21T09:23:37Z

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World Bank sees challenges ahead for AIDS funding

2010-04-16T14:00:47Z

Funding for the fight against HIV/AIDS may be hit by the current financial crisis, a World Bank economist told an international conference on the disease in Dakar Wednesday.

But there were other solutions for the challenges ahead, Rene Bonnel told the 15th Dakar on Tuesday to urge Western leaders to keep their promises on AIDS funding despite the global financial crisis.

On the eve of an international conference on AIDS in Africa, the demonstration included giant puppets that caricatured US president-elect Barack Obama<...

Dec 2, 2008

2010-10-23T19:09:37Z

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Surprise Results For Urinary Tract Infections, Vaginitis And Sexually Transmitted Diseases In African Trial

2010-09-22T04:11:48Z

Trials in Ghana, West Africa, on Malaria victims using a new recently patented advanced colloidal silver solution have had some pleasant side effects. Not only did the advanced silver solution have amazing effects on the malaria, but it also proved to be effective against Urinary Tract Infections, Sexually Transmitted Diseases such as gonorrhea, skin infections and parasites that were also present in those malaria patients. West Africa is riddled with all kinds of nasty diseases, so there was...

Charitable Giving's Efficiency Problems

2010-04-16T16:50:31Z

New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora started a charity two years ago after an uncle living in Nigeria died of AIDS. His uncle didn't know he was infected until the end of his life. After his death, Osi and his brother Jim decided to form a nonprofit that would fund HIV clinics in their home country of Nigeria.

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HIV still spreading fast in rural Papua New Guinea, but data show fewer cases than feared

2010-09-09T13:34:13Z

The number of HIV cases in Papua New Guinea may not be as high as previously feared, but the disease is still spreading rapidly in rural areas, the health minister said Thursday.

New data compiled by local officials with help from overseas aid organizations put the adult per capita infection rate at 1.28 percent _ down from the United Nations' previous estimat...

Circumcision reduces HIV infections by 60%

2010-11-03T08:49:44Z

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Laura Bush begins Africa tour to focus on anti-AIDS initiatives, women's rights and education

2010-09-09T04:36:52Z

First Lady Laura Bush started a four-nation Africa tour Monday that is expected to focus on how the U.S. can help fight AIDS on a continent where many countries struggle to even provide basic health care.

Mrs. Bush, accompanied by her daughter Jenna, is scheduled to visit areas that have benefited from U.S. AIDS funding this week ...

First Lady begins Africa tour on AIDS

2010-09-09T04:26:36Z

Laura Bush Begins Africa Tour to Focus on Anti-AIDS Initiatives, Women's Rights and Education

Mrs. Bush...

Ivory Coast

2011-01-03T20:30:49Z

Benin President Boni Yayi, left, walks with Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma, on arrival at the airport in Abidjan, Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. African leaders returned to Ivory Coast...

Stanford California Basketball

2011-01-02T15:00:17Z

Stanford's Sarah Boothe, right, struggles for the ball with California's Rama N'diaye of Senegal, during the first half of an NCAA...

Nigeria Barracks Explosion

2011-01-01T08:30:10Z

The victim of a bomb explosion is been treated by medical staff at the Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A bomb blast tore through a beer garden at a Nigerian army barracks where revelers had gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve, witnesses said. State-run television reported Friday night that 30 peop...

APTOPIX Nigeria Barracks Explosion

2011-01-01T08:01:26Z

A truck transports the bodies of bomb explosion victims to a mortuary in, Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A bomb blast tore through a beer garden at a Nigerian army barracks where revelers had gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve, witnesses said. State-run television reported Friday night that 30 people died, though police immediately disputed that. (AP Photo/Felix Onigbinde)

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Nigeria-Violence

2010-12-28T04:31:14Z

Bystanders gather around a burned car outside the Victory Baptist Church in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Authorities say dozens of assailants attacked the church on Christmas Eve, killing the pastor, two members of the choir and two people passing by the church....