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Ghana: HIV Drops in Wa
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The Wa Municipality recorded a drop in HIV prevalence rate from 5.8 percent to 2.0 per cent, a sentinel survey report from the Ministry of Health has indicated. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Uganda: HIV-Positive Women Need Family Planning Services, Study ShowsEmail this article to a colleague.
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HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Nigeria: N.9 Million Locals Need HIV/Aids Drugs - NACA BossEmail this article to a colleague.
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OVER 900,000 Nigerians suffering from the dreaded HIV/AIDS are in dire need of regular supply of antiretroviral drugs, the National Action Committee Against Aids (NACA), has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Southern Africa: SADC Aids Fiesta Set for MalawiEmail this article to a colleague.
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The second edition of Sadc Artists Aids Festival is scheduled for Lilongwe in Malawi starting on November 30 until December 6, 2009. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: HIV/Aids - U.S. Increases Funding in ContinentEmail this article to a colleague.
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The United State's President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has increased funding for HIV/AIDS in Africa from $2.3 billion in 2004 to $6.6 billion in 2009. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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South Africa: The Shameless Rian MalanEmail this article to a colleague.
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In 2001, Rian Malan wrote an article in Rolling Stone questioning the accuracy of HIV tests in order to disparage the evidence of a growing HIV epidemic in South Africa. In 2003 he published similar articles in the Spectator and Noseweek. All these articles were replete with errors. I subsequently debunked the latter two in a January 2004 article. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: Consequences of Less Funding for Aids - Living With Aids # 413Email this article to a colleague.
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Thanks to the international recession, donors are either decreasing or opting not to increase their funding of AIDS treatment. This will have devastating effects on poorer countries that are largely dependent on foreign aid. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: World Cup to Help Create HIV AwarenessEmail this article to a colleague.
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In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans presents a golden opportunity, not only for the country's business and tourism sectors, but also for its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Nigeria: U.S., FG Partner On Fight Against HIV/AidsEmail this article to a colleague.
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As the 2009 World AIDS Day with theme; "Universal Access and Human Right, approaches, the United States of America is erpected to partner Nigeria and other development partners in the fight against HIV/AIDS. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Nigeria: PATA's Training Mainstreams Gender Into HIV ResponseEmail this article to a colleague.
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POSITIVE Action for Treatment Access (PATA), a non government organization has commenced a 12-month Women Leadershish and Mentorship Training (WLMT) on HIV Treatment Education Fellowship to enable the organization achieve unmet treatment need among women living with HIV. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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South Africa: Should Mbeki be Prosecuted Over Aids Deaths?Email this article to a colleague.
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THE Young Communist League (YCL) yesterday repeated its call that former president Thabo Mbeki be prosecuted for AIDS-related deaths, saying it sided with victims rather than critics of the proposed court action, including the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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South Africa: Sanac to Raise Awareness of HIV, Aids During 2010Email this article to a colleague.
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The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) symposium currently taking place in Johannesburg is trying to find ways to use the 2010 FIFA World Cup as a platform to advance awareness about HIV and AIDS. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Uganda: Like Aids, Climate Change Should Be CheckedEmail this article to a colleague.
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When it was coined more than a decade ago, the term 'zero-grazing' became and still remains a very effective "action prompter" in the fight against the HIV/Aids pandemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Nigeria: Jang - Corrupt Officials Deserve No PityEmail this article to a colleague.
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Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau state yesterday called for strict punitive measures against government officials and organisationsinvolved in the diversion of funds meant for the fight against HIV/AIDS in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: Africa Action Applauds U.S. Decision to Lift HIV Travel Ban, Calls for Sustained U.S. leadership on Global Health Ahead of Global Fund Board MeetingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Africa Action congratulates President Obama and the administration’s leadership in lifting the 22-year-old HIV travel and immigration ban in the U.S. Reducing stigma and discrimination associated with HIV is an integral part in the fight against HIV/AIDS and the promotion of human rights internationally. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Malawi: Trying to Give Sex Workers Safer AlternativesEmail this article to a colleague.
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A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportionately affected by high rates of poverty and HIV. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Mozambique: Production of Antiretrovirals to Start This YearEmail this article to a colleague.
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The first phase of a pharmaceutical plant to produce anti-retroviral drugs in Mozambique will begin before the end of this year, according to the Brazilian Minister of Development Industry and Foreign Trade, Miguel Jorge. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Angola: Esperança Mutamba, 'I'm Living This Double Life'Email this article to a colleague.
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Esperança Mutamba (not her real name), who has been living with the virus for 10 years and works as HIV/AIDS counsellor in the Angolan capital, Luanda, is still not ready to publicly disclose her HIV status. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Ghana: 60 Citizens Contract HIV DailyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Over 15,000 Ghanaians are estimated to die annually of the HIV and AIDS disease and a total of 33 milllion people globally live with HIV, according to worldwide statistics as disclosed by Dr Richard Amenyah of the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC). (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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South Africa: Experts Question Death StatisticsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Health Department's claim of a massive jump in deaths in 2008 is unlikely, according to experts (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - November 17, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: WACN Tackles HIV TransmissionEmail this article to a colleague.
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In as much as mother-to-child-Transmission (MTCT)of HIV is almost entirely preventable where services are available, infant feeding choices for the HIV-infected women remains one of the most contentious issues in efforts to prevent MTCT of HIV in resource poor countries like Nigeria. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Swaziland: On ART Since BirthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Seven-year-old Ntombi* frowns after swallowing the tablets her grandmother has given her. The HIV-positive child has contracted multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - November 16, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Zambia: Orphans Grow Up Without Cultural IdentityEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses. She is now 19 years old, and without relatives to represent her at her lobola (bride price) negotiations, she was forced to hire traditional counsellors to organise the process of marriage according to the tribal customs. They did a bad job. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Mozambique: Mobile Unit to Fight Aids in NiassaEmail this article to a colleague.
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A multimedia mobile unit is now on the road in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa with the task of making communities aware of AIDS and how to prevent the disease, (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Botswana: Cross-Generational Sex Must Be Nipped in BudEmail this article to a colleague.
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If you are an adult male that's having sexual relations with any adolescent girl 10 or more years your junior, you are involved in cross-generational sex! And studies suggest that it is this kind of sex that is rendering teenage girls between the ages of 15-19 in Eastern and Southern Africa six times more susceptible to HIV than boys the same age. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Uganda: AIDS Commission Takes New Direction in PreventionEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Zimbabwe: Donor Fatigue Threatens HIV/Aids Gains - MSFEmail this article to a colleague.
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AN aid agency has warned that donor fatigue is threatening to reverse HIV/Aids programmes in developing countries including Zimbabwe. Medicines San Frontiers (MSF) in a recently released report titled Punishing Success? says the success in the fight against the pandemic had largely depended on donors. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Uganda: Nansana Town to Get Aids FacilityEmail this article to a colleague.
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NASANA Town Council is collaborating with Civil Society Organisation, a local NGO, to establish a sh40m HIV/AIDS centre. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Uganda: 'Shs8 Billion GF Money Goes Missing'Email this article to a colleague.
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The National Forum of People Living with HIV/Aids wants the government to explain the alleged disappearance of over $4.27 million (Shs8 billion) from the Global Fund that was given to Uganda to buy antiretroviral drugs between October and December this year. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: Donors Backtracking on Funding Aids TreatmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Lives of AIDS patients in poor countries could be severely compromised if donors and rich nations continue reducing their funding commitments to AIDS programmes. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Botswana: More Come for HIV Testing - ReportEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tebelopele is working round the clock to contribute to the National Strategy Framework (NFS) and United Nations (UN) universal access target of having 95 percent of Batswana know their HIV status by 2013. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Swaziland: Help Sex Workers, Says SenatorEmail this article to a colleague.
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It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Botswana: What's Driving HIV in Selebi-Phikwe?Email this article to a colleague.
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In most respects, there is nothing remarkable about Selebi-Phikwe, a mining town in northeastern Botswana with a population of about 50,000. The central business district is a sun-baked main street with a few shops and a taxi rank; the copper and nickel mine on its outskirts is the main source of employment. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: Lack of Political Will Threatens Aids FundingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Universal access to antiretrovirals in poor countries is under threat as donors reduce funding for AIDS programmes, warns Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Niger: Reinforcing Sex Education in High SchoolsEmail this article to a colleague.
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High school students in the Niger capital, Niamey, learned to put HIV/AIDS and reproductive health in a broader context during a recent essay contest. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: Disabled Should Claim Rights in UN ConventionEmail this article to a colleague.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) should be used as a tool to improve access to HIV services for disabled people, who are often marginalized in national HIV policies, says a new report. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: Mismatch Between HIV Spending and NeedEmail this article to a colleague.
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The global economic crisis may have the positive spinoff of forcing countries to allocate increasingly scare HIV/AIDS resources more efficiently. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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South Africa: Battle Won For HIV-Positive SoldiersEmail this article to a colleague.
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The South African cabinet has approved a new policy prohibiting discrimination against soldiers and would-be recruits on the basis of their HIV status. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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South Africa: Military's HIV Ban UnlawfulEmail this article to a colleague.
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South Africa's High Court in Pretoria has ruled that the military's exclusion of HIV-positive people from recruitment, promotion and foreign deployment is unconstitutional. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Nigeria: Healthcare For Women Still Below Expectation - UN ReportEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new United Nations (UN) report has revealed that many of the world's countries continue to fail to meet the health-care needs of women at key stages of their lives, such as adolescence or old age. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Nigeria: Ummah Support GroupEmail this article to a colleague.
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We arrived early for the workshop and there were just a few of us in the room, most of them were staff of an NGO, the Society for Family Health SFH, which organised the event. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Zimbabwe: No Home to Go toEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tendai Javangwe (not his real name) is 16 years old but looks half his age; he was born HIV-positive and has been staying at a home run by Mashambanzou Care Trust, a community care and support organisation. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: Older People Need Help to Raise the Next GenerationEmail this article to a colleague.
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When the working members of a household die from HIV-related illnesses in northern Tanzania, older dependants have to work longer hours to cope financially, according to recently published World Bank study. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Nigeria: FG Receives N26 Billion From DFID for HIV ResponseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Federal government yesterday received 100 million Pounds (about N26 billion) from the Department For International Development (DFID) for the Enhancing Nigeria Response (ENR) to HIV/AIDS programme for a six-year period. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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South Africa: Push for Routine Offers of HIV TestsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is pushing for a radical change in SA's approach to HIV testing, proposing that doctors and nurses routinely offer screening to all their patients instead of waiting for them to volunteer or get AIDS- related illnesses. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: Falling Foul of the FundEmail this article to a colleague.
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Programmes supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reported 2.3 million people on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in June 2009. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Falling Foul of the FundEmail this article to a colleague.
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Programmes supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reported 2.3 million people on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in June 2009. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Uganda: HIV-Positive Persons Should Not Be Sentenced to DeathEmail this article to a colleague.
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The utility of the death penalty has, of recent, attracted a lot of debate, especially when the landmark constitutional court decision of the Attorney General vs Susan Kigula and others had just been passed early this year. The pro-death penalty group and the increasingly vibrant anti-death penalty group each put up strong arguments to support their sides. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Africa: U.S. Peace Corps to Bring New Focus to Food SecurityEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Obama administration earlier this year named a former United States Peace Corps volunteer, Aaron S. Williams, as the program's new director. The Peace Corps, which will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary, draws thousands of Americans who want to work abroad and under the new administration, it is looking at its areas of focus and how best to continue implementing its programs most effectively. Williams spoke with AllAfrica during a visit to South Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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South Africa: Department to Encourage Leaders to Go for HIV TestingEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a bid to raise awareness around HIV and AIDS, the Health Department plans to encourage South African leaders in various fields to undergo HIV tests in a hope that others will lead by example. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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