HEALTH-BURKINA FASO: More Money Needed to Guarantee the Availability of ARVs
Burkina Faso's Network for Access to Essential Medicines (RAME) has called on the Burkinabè government to increase the budget allocation to the health sector to avoid interruptions to AIDS treatment.
View ArticleEUROPE-INDIA: Trade Deal Threatens 'Pharmacy of the Developing World'
Behind closed doors, a trade deal affecting a fifth of the world's population has been quietly in the works for years.
View ArticleU.S.: Obama Requests Slightly Higher Aid Levels for 2013
Despite strong pressure to reduce the yawning federal deficit, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a slight increase in funding for the State Department and...
View ArticleRUSSIA-HEALTH: Censorship and Dirty Needles Fuel HIV/AIDS Epidemic
A recent government crackdown on Russian media, particularly online information portals specialising in health tips and harm reduction methods for drug users, has sparked widespread public opposition,...
View ArticleInstant Infant HIV Diagnosis to be Rolled Out in Rural Kenya
Jesse Mtembe, a nursing officer at the Akithenesit Health Centre in Teso North, in Kenya's Western Province, cannot wait for his centre to be connected to a new software system for diagnosing HIV in...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Trade Pact Reveals U.S.'s Unbridled Corporate Agenda
The 11th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) talks concluded in Melbourne Friday, with member states suggesting the negotiations had made significant progress but civil society...
View ArticleWill Europe Meet its 2015 Aid Development Goals?
Decades ago, 15 of Europe's wealthiest nations made a promise to allocate .7 percent of their respective gross national products (GNP) to official development assistance. Yet despite a commitment that...
View ArticleSorcery-Related Violence on the Rise in Papua New Guinea
An increase in sorcery-related violence and fatalities over the last decade in Papua New Guinea is generating awareness about the lack of development, economic opportunities, inequality and...
View ArticleHIV Compounds Poverty in Nepal
Life, already hard in Nepal's remote western region, is getting worse thanks to HIV infection brought back by men who go to neighbouring India for seasonal work.
View ArticleGlobal Fund for AIDS, TB, Malaria "Not in Crisis"
Although coming off a rocky year in 2011, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is "not in crisis", according to the organisation's deputy general manager, Debrework Zewdie.
View ArticleSexual Abuse Keeps Girls Out of School
Sexual harassment of school-going girls is one factor that may prevent this Pacific island nation from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of eliminating gender disparity in education by...
View ArticleCaste Blocks Revamp of Nepal's Sex Workers
Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy call for special efforts to uplift the Badi, a Hindu caste that has for centuries been associated with...
View ArticleParliamentarians Pledge Support for Reproductive Health Agenda
Participants at the Fifth International Parliamentarians' Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) ended their meeting here Friday with a joint pledge to advocate for increased funding for full...
View ArticleHIV-Positive Women in Argentina Mainly Infected by Stable Partners
The immense majority of women diagnosed with HIV in Argentina in the last two years were infected through unprotected sex with their stable partners, a new report says.
View ArticleBangladesh Braces for HIV Epidemic
Bangladesh has shown low HIV prevalence rates so far but may be silently moving towards an epidemic, say experts pointing to underreporting and poor monitoring for the virus in the general population.
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