Topic: West Africa
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 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 ...
I recently watched the 2004 movie, Lord of War. Hollywood actor, Nicholas Cage played an arms dealer whose clients included corrupt, Russian generals and African dictators. In a major part of the film, Cage's character met with a Liberian strongman. When the ...
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 ...
Senegal has arguably the most thorough and successful AIDS prevention campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to combat this problem NGOs became very active in rallying public support for various health campaigns (Pisani, 1999). Political support has remained constant, and effects have ...
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 ...
In 2007, there were a brief flurry of announcements in the African media that a possible cure for HIV/AIDS had been discovered in Ghana, consisting of an herbal treatment known as koankro which was given to several patients at Kubease, Ghana. Once ...
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