HIV/AIDS in the developing world
Orphans in the spotlight
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK PRINT SHAREAbidjan, 15 April 2002 (PlusNews) – AIDS orphans are better off with their families than in institutions, says USAID. In a document presented in Cote d’Ivoire last week, at an international week-long workshop to share experiences, USAID said: “Children benefit greatly from the care, personal attention and social relations that families and their communities can provide. Children raised in orphanages often have difficulties integrating into society after becoming adults, and many of them...
read moreInterview with Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK PRINT SHAREjohannesburg, 2 September 2002 (PlusNews) – Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director, Peter Piot, is attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg to deliver a simple message: until HIV/AIDS is brought under control, “you can forget about sustainable development”. He spoke to IRIN about the need for political leadership, and the progress being made by African countries in dealing with the epidemic. Q: The NEPAD [New Partnership for Africa's...
read moreTV and radio dramas boost HIV/AIDS awareness among migrants
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK PRINT SHAREBangkok, 8 June 2006 (PlusNews) – Naive and unfamiliar with the world beyond their isolated, tight-knit communities, young job seekers from Communist-ruled Laos are at high risk of being trafficked into the booming sex industry in neighbouring Thailand, officials fear. As a result, the government has made a film to raise awareness of the potential dangers of crossing the border to seek work, including the possibility of contracting HIV/AIDS, and is also involved in using radio to educate job...
read moreCOLOMBIA: Not just bullets and bombs put cops at risk
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK PRINT SHAREbogota, 24 May 2007 (PlusNews) – The death of nine policemen in a roadside bomb blast this month as they patroled the rough roads of Landázuri, in Colombia’s northeast, underlines the daily threat the security forces face in the country’s long-running civil conflict. The policemen were providing security for a coca eradication programme aimed stamping out the illegal cocaine trade. But whether posted to Colombia’s remote conflict zones where control is contested by the rebel...
read moreCOLOMBIA: Giving youngsters an alternative to exploitation
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK PRINT SHAREbogota, 31 August 2007 (PlusNews) – What do cards made of recycled paper, decorated with colourful fish, have to do with HIV prevention? At first glance, absolutely nothing. But at the Little Worker Foundation they are part of a project that aims for a better life in Bogota, capital of Colombia. Maria Liliana Salamanca, 12, is totally absorbed in making sure she cuts the paper just right, and that the little fishes look nice on the cards. The activity is not only fun because she meets many other...
read moreCOLOMBIA: Sex tourism booming on the Caribbean coast
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK PRINT SHARECartagena, 18 November 2008 (PlusNews) – On the surface, the historic northern city of Cartagena on Colombia’s Caribbean coast is an up-market tourist destination, with cruise boat passengers strolling through the old, walled city’s maze of narrow streets as sight-seers duck into air-conditioned boutiques and cafés to escape the tropical heat. But there is a seedier side to this travel-brochure charm. The backpacker hostels that line a picturesque street just outside the...
read moreCOLOMBIA: David Gomez: "They didn’t accept HIV-positive people … they shot them and burned the bodies"
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COLOMBIA: Potential AIDS fallout from armed conflict
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK PRINT SHARECartagena, 25 November 2008 (PlusNews) – On the days that Alberis Guerrero Peralta doesn’t make soup to sell in her neighbourhood of Arjona, an impoverished community outside Cartagena, a city on Colombia’s northern coast, she and her four children don’t eat. Like many of the families living in Arjona, armed conflict between leftist rebel groups, government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups forced the Peraltas to abandon their home in the Department of Sucre,...
read moreCOLOMBIA: Most vulnerable fall through gaps in health system
Follow @{0} FEEDBACK PRINT SHAREBogota, 12 January 2009 (PlusNews) – When Martin Alonso Hernandez, an AIDS activist in Bogota, Colombia’s capital, learned that his partner of six years was HIV positive, he waited another five years before getting himself tested for the virus. “I was out of the social security system,” he explained. “It was very expensive to test otherwise.” Hernandez’s partner did have health insurance through his job, but was fired when his status was...
read moreINTERVIEW-South Africa seeks to close drug patent loophole
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:58 GMT Source: reuters // Reuters By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, April 22 (Reuters) – South Africa plans to overhaul its intellectual property laws to improve access to cheaper medicines by making it harder for pharmaceutical firms to register and roll-over patents for drugs, a senior official said on Monday. Central to the reforms is closing a loophole known as “ever-greening”, whereby drug companies...
read moreNew technology speeding progress on bird flu vaccine
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:36 GMT Source: reuters // Reuters By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, April 11 (Reuters) – Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China – typically the first step in making a flu vaccine – government-backed researchers had already begun testing a “seed” strain of the virus made from the genetic code posted on the Internet. This new, faster...
read moreANALYSIS-Public doubt on bird flu a ghost of China’s past
Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:23 GMT Source: reuters // Reuters * Beijing wins praise abroad for deft handling of outbreak * But Chinese citizens use social media to criticise * Scientists say international collaboration is working * No sign yet that virus is spreading person to person By Michael Martina and Kate Kelland BEIJING/LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) – China has earned praise from international scientists for its handling of an outbreak of a...
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