Topic: Southern Africa

AIDS fund cuts will hit Southern Africa hard

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Southern African countries, hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, are likely to be most affected over the next three years as funding from one of the world's biggest donors dries up, a coalition of AIDS activists said Monday.The Global ...

Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion

LONDON (Reuters) - Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday.A study by Canadian scientists found that South ...

Fear battles fatalism in Africa's AIDS fight

JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) - Messages from years of AIDS campaigns are finally filtering down to the dingy streets of Johannesburg where sex workers turn tricks.But all of that can vanish in an instant when a customer offers a little more cash to have ...

Fear of infection drove AIDS decline in Zimbabwe

Fear of infection helped drive a 50 percent decline in new cases of HIV in Zimbabwe from 1997 to 2007, said an international study published Tuesday in the United States.The analysis of social factors that helped to halve what was once one ...

Fear, social change drive down Zimbabwe HIV rates

LONDON (Reuters) - Fear of infection and mass social change have driven a huge decline in HIV rates in Zimbabwe, offering important lessons on how to fight the AIDS epidemic in the rest of Africa, scientists said on Tuesday.In a study in ...
US launches HIV testing program in Zimbabwe with star musicians, broadcasters, soccer playersThe United States launched a program in Zimbabwe Wednesday to encourage HIV testing, with the U.S. ambassador, local musicians, broadcast personalities and soccer stars taking tests to mark the occasion.Alexio ...
In the shadow of Mugabe's clashes with the West, a US project wages war on AIDS in ZimbabweThe U.S. ranks high on President Robert Mugabe's enemies list, but at ground level it is leading a war on AIDS that may help save ...
And the vital link between Aids and marriage in Africa is the bride price. A UN country report on Zimbabwe, entitled Facing the Future Together' and released in 2004, noted that one in five of the women they surveyed between the ages ...
Plumbago zeylanica (White Leadwort and Chitrak 4) native South Eastern Asia (and India 2) medicinal ornament evergreen shrub 1 .This ornamental plant is one of ten to twenty species of Plumbago flowering plants. Plumbago zeylanica grows health in full to partial shade, ...

Awareness of HIV danger

Since we are in the new generation, PMS or Premarital Sex is necessary and can be recognized and accepted by others. But what I was saying is that we should be aware of this threatening disease that is considered by the World ...
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