Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation (MEF) director, Rev Reuben Daka, has revealed that the clinic will this year experience fewer drug shortages, compared to last year. Rev Daka said this on Friday 22nd January, during a two-hour orientation talk with first year students. The MEF has signed an agreement with the Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ) to assist the clinic with medical supplies.

While South Africa remains one of the countries with highest HIV prevalence rates, gay rights organisations are doing their bit to curb the spread of the syndrome and to ensure that people know their status. OUT LGBT Well-being, a gay health rights organisation in Pretoria, has initiated a campaign called “Know Your Status Day”, which it hopes will effectively respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

The director of the newly-established prison medical directorate in Zambia, Deputy Prison Commissioner, Dr Chisela Chileshe, has urged the prison command in Zambia to start providing condoms to inmates in Zambian prisons to avert the escalating prevalence of HIV infections. The HIV prevalence rate amongst inmates in Zambian prisons is almost twice that of the outside community.

A Cabinet Committee of Ministers on HIV and AIDS has made a declaration of commitment to increase internal funding to HIV and AIDS programmes in Zambia. In a communiqué issued in Lusaka recently, the Cabinet Committee of Zambian Ministers on HIV and AIDS stressed that the Zambian Government has realized the need for home grown solutions to the threat of the epidemic on the productive lives of its citizenry.

The Ministry of Health has banned all microbicide clinical trials in Zambia. This is according to a letter dated December 29, 2009, addressed to a Dr J. Stringer -- an official at the Centre for Disease Research, written and signed by health permanent secretary, Dr Velepi Mtonga. 
Dr Mtonga stated that the ministry would not approve any clinical trials until such a time that safer and more efficacious methods were available.

ZAMBIA has become one of the seven countries worldwide, most seriously affected countries by HIV. This is according to the recently released Zambia Demographic and Health Survey statistics. According to the final report released by the Zambia National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council, almost 1.6 percent of the adult population becomes newly infected each year.

With only six months until South Africa hosts the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the nettlesome question of how to deal with sex workers looms. "There are actually almost no sex work programmes in place at the moment," said Marlise Richter, a sex work researcher and member of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC). She was speaking at a recent consultation in Cape Town on HIV, sex work and the World Cup.

Nora Nabanoba (not her real names) walked into my office, greeted me in a local language, and asked me how we help women. She narrated the story of how she came to Kampala. “I finished primary seven and because my parents were poor, I could not afford to join secondary school. Our neighbour had a daughter who was working in Kampala and she decided to take me to look for work in Kampala.

As the nation gathers at the Pretoria show grounds today for President Jacob Zuma’s World AIDS Day address, LGBTI organisations country-wide are doing their bit to commemorate this day, raising awareness about the pandemic that has claimed an estimated 25 million lives worldwide. The day is themed, “I am responsible. We are responsible. South Africa is taking responsibility.”

It's clearly known and believed that, in Tanzania, the first person with HIV/ AIDS was found in Kagera region in 1983. Being a Tanzanian young man, born and brought up in Kagera, I believe I was among the first few young boys to hear, read, know and be threatened by this new and frightening disease. As a young boy, I started to be aware of the disease in the 1988, when I was about 7 years old

The lives of close to two million people living with HIV infection worldwide could be under threat because of interruptions in their anti-retroviral treatment resulting from the current economic crisis, a World Bank report has revealed. Africa will be the worst affected out of 22 countries which will face hurdles in providing antiretroviral drugs this year.

Publishing statistics on the number of people living with the HIV and AIDS pandemic is important, but it tells us only part of the story. What the numbers fail to disclose, however, are the human elements of this epidemic, such as the increasing number of infants being born with HIV and dying from severe opportunistic infections before the age of five. The impact of paediatric AIDS permeates...

Maputo é uma das mais belas cidades capitais africanas. É tida como a cidade das acácias, que não somente oferecem sombra aos citadinos como conferem uma beleza ímpar com o seu verde, tornando a cidade diferente de muitas cidades africanas e até do mundo! Maputo tem ainda o privilégio de ser banhado pelo Índico, possuindo uma orla marítima excelente, ponto de atraccão

An estimated 82,700 Zambians will become newly infected with HIV in 2009, up from just over 70,000 in 2007, according to new figures from the National AIDS Council. The 2009 Zambia HIV Prevention Response and Modes of Transmission Analysis noted that the percentage of new HIV infections had stabilized, but the absolute number of new infections increased due to population growth.