LAGOS, Nigeria (PANA) - More than 75 people died of AIDS and as many as 658 others living with HIV were on the death row since the new civilian administration was installed in Lagos state in May, the state s commissioner for health, Dr. Leke Pitan, said. He told journalists Monday that the figures were worrisome and a
BAMAKO, Mali (PANA) - Uganda has joined several other African countries that recently started pilot projects using antiretrovirals to treat people living with HIV/AIDS. According to the March-April issue of the WHO Africa Regional Office newsletter, the Ugandan ministry of health recently introduced the treatment, call
ABIDJAN, Cote d Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian antiretroviral project, backed by the UNAIDS , is yet to take on board most of the needy HIV seropositives in the country due to the high costs of treatment, which is beyond the pockets of the victims. According to the national anti-HIV/AIDS committee, there are about one
NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - A leading Kenyan anthropologist has defended cultural practices against blame for the rapid spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in some parts of the country. Magoiga Seba, who heads the Nairobi-based Foundation for the Development of African Culture called for research to establish
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa s health minister, Nkosazaa Dlamini-Zuma, has suggested that those suffering from AIDS in Africa should benefit from the money that is being used by companies to research a cure for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The minister was speaking in Parliament last week where
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (PANA) - The South African Department of Health has completed investigations into reports of condoms damaged by staples, which were distributed to people during the Condom Week Campaign earlier this month. The investigation established that a non-government organisation, collaborating with the D
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa s transport minister, Mac Maharaj, Tuesday called for a stronger partnership between government, industry and labour unions to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS. Addressing a transport industry meeting on the issue, the minister admitted that South Africa was nowhere near the poi
DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS has commended Thailand for its authorisation of large-scale human testing on an experiemental AIDS vaccine, the first of its kind in the developing world. In a news release, programme s executive director, Dr Peter Piot, said this trial signifies an important
LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia is using a Zimbabwean made film on AIDS to raise public awareness about the plight of orphans whose parents die of the incurable disease. The film, entitled Everyone s Child , was developed by the Zimbabwean Media for Development Trust with a view to help develop sustainable community bas
DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The first conference on traditional medicine and HIV/AIDS takes place from 11-12 March in Dakar, Senegal. In a news release, the Association for the Promotion of Traditional Medicine, an international non-governmental organisation based in Dakar, said the congress will discuss the role of tradit
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (PANA) - Cameroon s health minister, Dr. Gottlieb Monekosso, has expressed the government s worries about the alarming rate of AIDS cases in the country, and revealed plans to intensify fight against the disease. He told a meeting of the National Committee for the control of AIDS that the 5.5 percent
DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The use of anti-retrovirals by HIV-pregnant women during delivery and a week after delivery for the recovering women and their babies reduced by 37 percent the chances of the infants also getting the deadly virus, according to recent findings of a research conducted in three African countries.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe s National AIDS Co-ordination Programme director, Everisto Marowa, Monday allayed fears that faulty condoms from South Africa could have infiltrated into the country, saying strict mechanism were in place to test imports. Through official and legal channels, they won t infiltrate
HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A traditional leader in Zimbabwe, Chief Zabron Kandeya of Mt Darwin in the country s central province of Mashonaland, said the HIV/AIDS pandemic had reached an alarming level in his area mainly because of poverty which drove young people into prostitution. Kandeya told the country s news a
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