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Headlines

MOZAMBIQUE: Government calls for trade union AIDS commitment

SOUTH AFRICA: AIDS grant to be finalised

ETHIOPIA: Dutch to redirect Ethiopia AIDS funding

AFRICA: US centre offers HIV/AIDS assistance

SOUTH AFRICA: AIDS drug for rape survivors urged

ANGOLA: Youth centres to fight AIDS

SOUTH AFRICA: Generic AIDS drug production underway

Health ministry waiting on cabinet on Aids

Bush Administration Appoints Edward Green to Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS

National Journal Uses Global AIDS Initiative as Example of 'Mismatch Between Rhetoric, Reality' in Appropriations Process

Lesotho Parliament President Calls for Country's Chiefs To Undergo Voluntary HIV Testing

South Africa's Medicines Control Council May Ban Use of Nevirapine Only for Prevention of Vertical HIV Transmission, Official Says

Bush's Global AIDS Plan Lacks 'Good Solid Planning,' Providence Journal Editorial Says

First human tests under way of HIV vaccine pioneered at UNC

ETHIOPIA: AIDS centre faces closure over funding problem

South African AIDS Epidemic Enters "Death" Phase, Experts Say

SOUTH AFRICA: AIDS conference ends with emotional appeal

SOUTH AFRICA: Dual HIV infection hampers vaccine research

Luc Montagnier To Testify at Trial of Health Care Workers Accused of Deliberately Infecting Libyan Children With HIV

Nigeria Facing Gaps in HIV/AIDS Awareness, Infrastructure; Could Result in Spread of Disease

WHO Chief Attacks South Africa's HIV/AIDS Policy

Global Fund, UNAIDS Sign Memorandum of Understanding Reaffirming Commitment to Fighting AIDS, TB, Malaria

HIV/AIDS Advocates, Researchers Call for National HIV/AIDS Antiretroviral Policy at Close of South African AIDS Conference

SOUTH AFRICA: HIV/AIDS key to elections - activist

SOUTH AFRICA: Signs of progress on ARVs

UGANDA: Africa's new leader in AIDS drug supply

AFRICA: Global AIDS drug plan taking shape

BOTSWANA: More than money needed for successful AIDS programme

Global AIDS Bill Could 'Make Dent in Catastrophic Problem,' Dan Rather Writes in Opinion Piece

'Gloomy' HIV/AIDS Statistics Cited at South African AIDS Conference; Demonstrators Criticize Government Inaction

Features

AIDS, Orphans, Poverty and the threat to security
One of the most devastating effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is the breakup of families, the creation of millions of orphans and the disintegration of social cohesion. By the end of 2000, over 12.1 million African children had lost either their mother or both parents to AIDS. This figure is set to double over the next two decade

Many studies show 20%-40% of HIV infections in African adults associated with injections (though direction of causation is unknown). These and other findings that challenge the conventional hypothesis point to the possibility that HIV transmission through unsafe medical care may be an important factor in Africa's HIV epidemic.

View webcasts of recent events that addressed the issue of global HIV/AIDS provided by kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation

A Deadly Embrace: Famine and AIDS in Southern Africa It seems that the four horsemen of the apocalypse Death, War, Pestilence (disease) and Famine have come to visit Southern Africa.Millions of people are experiencing starvation or the threat of famine in Southern Africa following poor harvests across the region

HIV epidemic compounded by starvation in ZImbabwe. Mrs Emily Mudzipurwa is aged 59 and lives in Marange communal area. She says she is HIV positive. Her husband died 4 years ago. Since then Mrs Mudzipurwa has been the sole provider for her 4 children (including one orphaned grandchild) aged 6 to 15 years.

Clouded in obfuscation, confusion, ignorance, myth or reality? Demystifying the figures. Is it true that half of Botswana is infected with HIV?� Is the population of Africa shrinking as a result the AIDS epidemic? With all the wars in Africa is AIDS really the biggest killer of Africans? Is AIDS a bigger killer than Malaria?

Empilisweni - The Healing Place
Medilinks had the opportunity to interview the prominent AfricanPhysician, Dr Elizabth Musaba-Mphele the founder of the award winning Center for AIDS Prevention, Kings William's Town , Eastern Cape Province South Africa

Funding the fight against AIDS
Alongside the fight to save millions of people from AIDS, the struggles to ensure adequate funding for the fight against the epidemic goes on.

AIDS not caused by a more virulent virus
In April 2001, researchers announced that they have concluded the epidemic of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa is not caused by a more virulent strain of the virus but is more probably due to political and socio-economic factors.

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Special Coverage: XIV International Conference on AIDS Barcelona, Spain, 7-12 July 2002

Research on the web

Where and why are 10 million children dying every year?
The Lancet6/27/2003

A critical review of the SAFE strategy for the prevention of blinding trachoma
The Lancet Infectious Diseases6/25/2003

BMJ 2003;326:1342-1343 (21 June)6/24/2003

Antiretroviral treatment in developing countries: the peril of neglecting private providers
BMJ 2003;326:1382-1384 (21 June)6/24/2003

Back to basics in HIV prevention: focus on exposure
BMJ6/24/2003

Public policies and the orphans of AIDS in Africa
BMJ6/24/2003

Examining the hypothesis that sexual transmission drives Africa�s HIV epidemic
AIDScience Vol. 3, No. 10, 20036/24/2003

WHA acts on health regulations and intellectual property
The Lancet6/24/2003

Predicting the public health impact of antiretrovirals: preventing HIV in developing countries
AIDScience Vol. 3, No. 11, 20036/24/2003

Damp spirits among G8 fresh pledge
The Lancet Infectious Diseases6/24/2003