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MDR-TB rapid tests available for poor countries
afrol News - People with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) from poor income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, can now get a faster diagnosis according to a new initiatives unveiled today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID and Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). Read more
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Africa alone reels with heterosexual AIDS epidemic
afrol News - The head of the AIDS efforts at the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Kevin De Cock, has said the threat of a heterosexual AIDS pandemic is officially over and decades of predictions that the disease would spread through general populations across the globe were wrong except in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more
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Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff?
afrol News - A growing number of researchers question the "official" inflated numbers of HIV/AIDS prevalence in African countries such as Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. Poor testing, a special diagnosis of AIDS in Africa and erroneous computer-generated estimates by the UN had led to "misleading" numbers, they hold. The history of AIDS in Uganda serves as proof.
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Gender - Women | Health
Abuse of women escalates HIV infections in Africa
afrol News - Violations of women's rights escalates the rate of HIV infections throughout the continent. Sexual oppression combined with a high biological receptiveness of viral transmission, put women at risk. As a consequence, the violence against women threatens to destroy whole communities. Read more
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