Topic: Nigeria

Africa demands more help at UN AIDS summit

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 ...
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 ...
A yam-loving muppet and another who's HIV positive romp about a set filled with an old drum of oil, a raffia basket and a heap of ubiquitous hot red peppers. Welcome to Sesame Street, Nigerian style.The local adaptation of the legendary children's ...
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 ...
the phenomenon of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) is as old as the creation of the world. The statistics at the disposal of policy planners, civil society organizations involved in OVC issues, caregivers, and development partners are inadequate and thus do not ...
Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) is not a cure, it has greatly decreased transmission and largely transformed perception of HIV/AIDS as a plague, to a manageable chronic illness. Is access to antiretroviral therapy in Nigeria sufficient, if not, what can we do to ...
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 ...
The concept of online volunteering is one of the wonders of Information technology of our time. But, more intriguing is the process of providing skilled labour to the less developed and the less privileged communities from the comfort of one?s room.We joined ...

THE SEX APPEAL

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Yams and mosquito nets on Nigeria's Sesame Street

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 40 years ago on state-run television as an attempt to ...
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