Topic: Mozambique
Mozambican activists warned Friday that funding cuts by donors could cause a shortage of drugs for AIDS patients next year, undermining gains in curbing the disease's spread.The southern African country has 60 percent of the drugs needed for next year for the ...
Lula, who hands over the reins to protege Dilma Rousseff on January 1, called the new anti-retroviral (ARV) drug factory in Mozambique a "revolution" for Africa's efforts to control the disease."The fact that we are building the African continent's first factory to ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Treating HIV patients in remote areas of Africa soon after they are infected and using community care teams instead of doctors can cut costs and help people live longer than those treated later, a charity said Thursday.Medecins Sans Frontieres ...
Almost 12 percent of the Mozambican population is infected with HIV/AIDS, a government survey released on Monday said."Anything above 5 percent means the country is in a tragic situation. A prevalence rate of 11.5 percent is already twice as much," Health Minister ...
Hundreds of protesters took to the street in Mozambique's capital Monday to protest health ministry policies that they say are jeopardizing HIV care in one of the world's worst affected countries.The protesters marched to the health ministry, where they handed a letter ...
A Brazilian-funded factory for producing anti-retroviral drugs, the first in Mozambique, will begin selling the key HIV medication by year's end, officials said Tuesday.The project aims to help Mozambique, with one of the world's highest HIV infection rates, increase the availability and ...
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived Thursday in Mozambique to launch a project to make anti-AIDS drugs in the southern African country, the foreign ministry said.Brazil, long considered a model in the fight against AIDS, will invest 23 million dollars ...
The head of the UN's children fund has raised concerns over the spread of HIV in Mozambique, saying it was partly fueled by immigrants from Zimbabwe who were selling their bodies to make ends meet.UNICEF executive director Ann Veneman told reporters at ...
The head of the World Bank said on Monday he was worried very high rates of HIV/AIDS infections and related tuberculosis in Mozambique could spread as new transport routes are developed to meet growing economic activity.. "As I've thought about some of ...
Lack of medical staff is emerging as one of the biggest obstacles to providing patients with anti-AIDS drugs, condemning untold numbers of Africans to an unnecessary death, says a new report.As Africa slowly gets to grips with providing anti-AIDS drugs _ increasing ...
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