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Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff?
Abuse of women escalates HIV infections in Africa


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Canada sells combined AIDS drugs to Rwanda

afrol News, 8 May - Canada's largest generic pharmaceutical company, Apotex, has won a tender to supply life saving triple combination AIDS drug "Apo Triavir" to the government of Rwanda.

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afrol News, 29 April - The Democratic Alliance leader has told hundreds of people at the KwaZulu-Natal Freedom Day celebrations in Molweni, outside Durban that South Africa faced a new threat 14 years after the first democratic election.

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Nigeria
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No-work-no-pay rule damned

afrol News, 7 March - Nigerian government has been damned for issuing a directive to all heads of universities that it would apply no-work-no-pay rule. In this piece, an education rights campaigner of Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, Kola Ibrahim, wondered why the rule should be applied to all lecturers who participated in the last warning strike, describing the rule as "condemnable" and "provocative."

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South Africa
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Mbeki assures 2010 World Cup

afrol News, 8 February - South African President Thabo on Friday delivered the much anticipated state of nation address, apologising the nation for the troubles caused by the power crisis. He allayed fears that the power crisis would hamper his country's hosting of the World Cup in 2010.

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Egypt
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'Stop criminalizing HIV'

afrol News, 7 February - Criminalisation of HIV/AIDs in Egyptian has been criticised by rights groups, fearing it would endanger public health, justice and human rights.

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» 29.01.2008 - US leader tours Africa
» 24.01.2008 - SA urged to introduce PMTCT
» 23.01.2008 - Mass circumcision in Rwanda
» 22.11.2007 - Queen lauds Uganda peace
» 14.11.2007 - Gambia's health minister fired
» 05.11.2007 - Zambian First Lady urges women to demand safe sex
» 22.10.2007 - Mozambique ex-leader bags Africa leadership prize
» 16.10.2007 - Africa's ARV treatment fails
» 17.09.2007 - Kenya's Muslims oppose condoms
» 29.08.2007 - Sudan's booming town lacks AIDS education
» 24.08.2007 - ‘Nutrition no substitute for ARV’
» 22.08.2007 - Boom for Malawian HIV-affected fish farmers
» 14.08.2007 - Global Fund lifts Chad’s grant suspension
» 02.08.2007 - Africa: Falling HIV rates tell complex story
» 24.07.2007 - Libya: Bulgarian medics at home
» 18.07.2007 - Bulgaria requests convicted medics from Libya
» 12.07.2007 - Lesotho churches bolster HIV/AIDS fight
» 11.07.2007 - Court confirms medics' death penalty
» 26.06.2007 - Laura Bush emphasises nutrition for HIV/AIDS patients
» 07.06.2007 - Zambia questions men touting HIV/AIDS cure
» 01.06.2007 - Antiretroviral generics to be produced in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe
» 27.04.2007 - Gambia: Scientist Disputes 'Aids Cure' evidence
» 24.04.2007 - Uganda AIDS patients’ difficult access to treatment
» 18.04.2007 - Sex work thrives in Zimbabwe
» 02.04.2007 - More aid for Lesotho's numerous orphans
» 28.03.2007 - AIDS killed 193 Tanzanian teachers
» 16.03.2007 - "Alarming" HIV rise in young South African women
» 14.03.2007 - South Africa set to arrest HIV
» 05.03.2007 - Homophobia in Africa "accelerates AIDS spread"
» 26.02.2007 - FGM, circumcision "likely to spread HIV"
» 23.02.2007 - Gambia expels UN rep over AIDS cure grills
» 12.02.2007 - Gambia President continues "AIDS treatment"
» 15.01.2007 - 10,000 South African educators to die of AIDS
» 19.12.2006 - Libya court sentences medics to death
» 08.12.2006 - African Muslim clerics divided on condom use
» 07.11.2006 - Gambian women cannot negotiate safe sex
» 30.10.2006 - Sierra Leone only starting to battle AIDS
» 19.10.2006 - Senegalese AIDS community cries in silence
» 19.10.2006 - "Global Fund not for 1st ladies"
» 02.10.2006 - 91% of young Cape Verdean males have high-risk sex
» 07.09.2006 - Mortality for middle-aged South Africans doubled
» 06.09.2006 - "Sack SA Health Minister" - world's AIDS experts
» 02.06.2006 - Kenya announces free AIDS, malaria drugs
» 01.06.2006 - Tanzanian church still opposes condoms, sex education
» 07.04.2006 - Zimbabwean women now have world's shortest lifespan
» 24.03.2006 - Namibia considers legalising prostitution
» 20.03.2006 - Uganda's gays left out of HIV/AIDS strategy
» 30.11.2005 - Botswana meets national AIDS treatment targets
» 09.11.2005 - Regional AIDS policy meeting held in Lesotho
» 31.10.2005 - Growing prostitution observed under Zambia food crisis
» 01.08.2005 - Malawi rural men: "Having AIDS is macho"
» 15.06.2005 - Migrant workers targeted in Lesotho AIDS campaign
» 18.03.2005 - Child mortality up by 50% in Zimbabwe
» 25.01.2005 - South Africa enraged by Catholic ban on condoms
» 21.01.2005 - Senegal's gay community confronts social taboos
» 12.01.2005 - Senegal's gays fight for AIDS campaign funds
» 06.01.2005 - Mandela says eldest son died of AIDS
» 05.01.2005 - "HIV-rate at 50% on Botswana-Namibia border"
» 20.12.2004 - Botswana HIV rate at 17, not 40 percent
» 16.12.2004 - Fidel Castro's "promise to Botswana fulfilled"
» 01.12.2004 - War in Uganda threatens AIDS successes
» 01.12.2004 - Impact of AIDS on South Africa's elderly underrated
» 01.12.2004 - Women's vulnerability focused on Botswana AIDS Day
» 09.11.2004 - Lutherans urge African women to speak about sex
» 27.10.2004 - New, free AIDS clinics in Lesotho, Swaziland
» 12.10.2004 - Protests against AIDS drug price hike in South Africa
» 23.09.2004 - "IMF policies undermine fight against AIDS"
» 16.09.2004 - Lesotho, Uganda praised for AIDS fight dedication
» 24.08.2004 - HIV/AIDS campaign in Benin strengthened
» 19.08.2004 - Ghana's gays organise to fight British criminal law
» 16.08.2004 - Bushmeat warning after new Cameroon virus
» 06.07.2004 - Church leaders alarmed by Swaziland crisis
» 02.07.2004 - Little enthusiasm for generic AIDS drug plans in South Africa
» 14.06.2004 - "Funky, punchy condoms" for South Africa
» 11.06.2004 - IMF urged to ease requirements on Zambia
» 01.06.2004 - New AIDS drug to begin distribution in Nigeria
» 04.05.2004 - Church decries Swaziland's "tragedy beyond comprehension"
» 04.05.2004 - Namibia aid appeal "ignored"
» 06.04.2004 - Rwandan women surviving genocide now face AIDS
» 08.03.2004 - African AIDS widows left without inheritance
» 04.03.2004 - "South African govt undermining own AIDS programme"
» 25.02.2004 - Strong efforts against AIDS in Malawi
» 20.02.2004 - Swaziland declares national disaster
» 18.02.2004 - "HIV infection rate declines" in South Africa
» 06.02.2004 - Humanitarian crisis in Lesotho grows
» 03.02.2004 - Frustration over South African AIDS budget cuts
» 29.01.2004 - Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff?
» 08.01.2004 - Hope for those with HIV in Rwanda
» 19.12.2003 - AIDS reduces life expectancy by over 20 years
» 02.12.2003 - South African AIDS activists nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
» 01.12.2003 - Now 40% of Botswana's pregnant women have HIV
» 01.12.2003 - Gender violence fuels African AIDS crisis
» 26.11.2003 - Now more than 10 million AIDS orphans
» 19.11.2003 - South African govt approves AIDS drug treatment
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