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ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in eastern Uganda. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and Treatment By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN - Decreasing or levelling HIV funding will destabilise developing countries’ health systems, a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned. They demand that governments worldwide own up to their promise of achieving universal access to HIV treatment. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV By Marshall Patsanza JOHANNESBURG - A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Prescription Drug Abuse on the Increase By Zukiswa Zimela JOHANNESBURG - Twenty-two-year-old Sara Allen* uses prescription medication to get high. MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Long-distance Learning Certificate for Caregivers By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Every Tuesday you will find 70-year-old Precious Dlamini under a tree, weighing children and babies from her local community as she monitors their health and nutrition. MORE >>
MALAWI: Catapults Against Cholera By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - By this time last year, Mkanda had recorded 14 cholera cases as rainy season descended on central Malawi. This year, there has not been a single report of cholera. MORE >>
EAST AFRICA: Improving Local Access to Family Planning By Isaiah Esipisu KAMPALA - A severe shortage of highly-trained medical personnel is one of the many challenges to providing health care at a local level across Africa. Task shifting - permitting less-specialised people to carry out certain functions - is one proposal to over come this, but it is meeting resistance. MORE >>
EUROPE: Fight Female Mutilation Harder Activists Urge EU By Pavol Stracansky VIENNA - With hundreds of thousands of girls and women believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Europe, rights groups have mounted a campaign to get EU leaders to stop what they see as a barbaric and dangerous procedure. MORE >>
RWANDA: Efforts to Contain HIV/AIDS Among Teens Slacken By Aimable Twahirwa KIGALI - Eighteen-year-old David Kimenyi* is sure he infected his girlfriend with HIV. They had unprotected sex many times, even after he discovered he was HIV-positive. MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Dating in a Time of HIV By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Jabulile Dlamini* is sweet sixteen and has never been kissed. And she is not expecting to be kissed any time soon or to even receive any gifts this Valentine’s Day. MORE >>
UGANDA: Early Diagnosis of HIV Still Elusive By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi KAMPALA - HIV-positive Justine Kirumira* is a mother torn between doing what is right for her daughters and her own fear of HIV/AIDS. She suspects that her eight and 12-year-old daughters may also have the virus. But she may never know the truth of their status because she refuses have them tested. MORE >>
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AMREF - African Medical and Research Foundation
Africare
AEGIS - Aids Education Global Information System
Global Health Information Network
The African Centre for Health and Population Studies
Health Aids Action Campaign
PlusNews is an HIV/AIDS news service produced by the UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
