A Tanzanian prostitute who addressed an International Labor Organization-sponsored conference in Tanzania described the dangers faced by sex workers and demanded the immediate legalization of prostitution. It was the first time in Tanzania that a woman publicly described the experiences of prostitutes, African Eye News Service reports.
Equity in Health
TANZANIA: Prostitutes Press For Legalization Of Trade
Telephone Hotlines Provide HIV/AIDS Information in Africa
Two African nations struggling to cope with the HIV/AIDS epidemic have launched telephone hotline systems to provide the most up-to-date and accurate information about the disease. Callers in Nigeria and South Africa concerned about such basic questions as how the virus is transmitted, where to get tested, and how effective condoms are in preventing HIV/AIDS now have the answers at their fingertips.
Zimbabwe: Health Minister Rules Out Compulsory HIV/AIDS Tests
Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Timothy Stamps, has turned down a call by the Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZIMA) to introduce compulsory HIV/AIDS testing of all patients, the 'Daily News' reported on Thursday.
Zimbabwe: New Sex Law to Curb HIV/AIDS
Zimbabwe has passed a new law that criminalises the deliberate transmission of HIV/AIDS, recognises rape in marriages, and imposes heavy penalties for other sexual offenses, AFP reported on Monday.
Chemists round on malaria
A molecular loop is looking like a promising candidate for the much-needed malaria vaccine. Developed by scientists in Colombia and Switzerland, the protein-like molecule primes a monkey's immune system, at least, to defend itself against the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Children Affected by HIV/AIDS: Rights and responses in the developing world
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13 million the of world's children under the age of 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. The majority of people infected with HIV are young people in their reproductive years and most of them are parents. The size of this crisis is eroding the hard-won social development successes of the past few decades - as well as threatening child development. This Working Paper from Save the Children examines the situation of children affected by HIV/AIDS living in resource poor countries.
Children's Environmental Health
This overview is the first in a series of articles to be published concerning children's environmental health. This article discusses an array of threats to children's health, resulting in illnesses such as asthma, childhood cancers, lead poisoning, developmental disorders, and endocrine disruption, underscoring children's unique vulnerability to toxicants in the environment.
HIV Impairs Malaria Treatment in Children
Young children who have two of the world's most deadly infectious diseases--malaria and HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites)--may need to be treated with a more potent antimalarial drug than chloroquine, the most widely available and cheapest treatment for malaria, a new report suggests.
HIV/AIDS: Pfizer Drops Vaccine Partnership, More Research Threatened
After reviewing results from a clinical trial, pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. Friday pulled out of its partnership with research company Immune Response to produce an AIDS vaccine. More than a decade of research failed to yield convincing evidence that the vaccine known as Remune helps patients.
HIV/AIDS: Women and girls carry the heaviest burden
When Mariah's husband died late last year of AIDS, she decided not to tell anyone for fear of isolation. "I first knew of my HIV status when my husband got ill. We both went for HIV testing and we were counseled and given our results. We were both found HIV positive,'' recalls the 35 year-old mother of three. "My husband got worse and finally died late last year. His relatives insisted that I should be inherited by one of his brothers. This is when I decided to tell them that I was HIV positive and that my husband had died of AIDS.'' Then all hell broke loose.