Topic: Michel Sidibe

Mobile phones may be a key weapon in the war adjoin HIV and AIDS in Africa, says to the UNAIDS chief.The almost new technology has a role to comedy in a abstemious bedeviled by bare bloom centres and battered infrastructure, said Michel ...
Two of the world's leading AIDS campaigners voiced concern on Wednesday that the jailing of a gay couple in Malawi could hurt the fight against the disease by forcing gay men underground.Last week a court sentenced Steven Monjeza, 26, and his 20-year-old ...
The UN AIDS chief said 50 million people are at risk from the disease in China and the government must do more to reach out to civil society and work with vulnerable groups such as homosexuals.China has 319,877 confirmed HIV cases but ...

Over 33 million infected with AIDS virus: U.N.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, up from 33 million in 2007, but more people are living longer due to the availability of drugs, according to a United Nations report.However, more than half ...
South Africa minister vows to more than double AIDS treatmentsSouth Africa's health minister on Tuesday promised a dramatic increase in treatment for AIDS victims to overcome the legacy of a decade of governmental denial of the epidemic.Barbara Hogan said the government wanted ...

UN chief names Mali's Michel Sidibe to head UNAIDS

On the occasion of World AIDS Day on Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Michel Sidibe of Mali to head the world body's AIDS-fighting agency, UNAIDS, a spokeswoman said.Sidibe, 56, will start his new job as executive director of the UN AIDS ...
Access to life-extending HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries has improved over the past three years, but new infections still dramatically outpace efforts to bring treatment to patients, health officials said Monday.Three years ago, fewer than 300,000 people in the developing world were ...