KwaZulu-Natal premier Lionel Mtshali on Thursday remained resolute that the anti-retoriviral drug Nevirapine would be made available to HIV-positive pregnant mothers in the province's state hospitals.
Equity in Health
South Africa: Mtshali Unwilling to Back Down On Nevirapine Issue
The Commission on Macroeconomics and health
The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health is a collaborative effort led by eighteen of the world’s leading economists and policymakers from academia, governments, and international agencies to assess the place of health in global economic development and offer a new strategy for investing in health for economic development, especially in the world’s poorest countries. The Commission is a crucial part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) strategy to meet the challenge of assembling and analyzing the evidence linking health status and poverty reduction. In this regard the Commission is a source of advice and analysis for WHO and the broader development community on the relationship between health, economics, and poverty reduction and will communicate its findings to policy makers in national governments and in development agencies. This document provides an overview of the CMH purpose, composition, and activities during the period January 2000 to October 2001.
Zambia: HIV/Aids Hampers Poverty Reduction
POVERTY cannot be reduced in the current environment where HIV/AIDS prevalence is high, a Ministry of Finance report to the World Bank has stated.
Zambia: N/West, West On Polio Alert
THE Central Board of Health (CBoH) has placed North-Western and Western provinces on alert following an outbreak of a wild polio virus among refugees entering Zambia.
'Africa is Poised to Launch a Wide-Scale And Integrated Response to the Aids Epidemic'
The 12th International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa opened on Sunday night - amidst all the logistic problems that many participants are still experiencing - in an impressive display of pomp and protocol. But not one openly HIV positive person stood on that platform to address the overflowing hall. We are told that there are 28.1 million people living with HIV in Africa now, perhaps one of those millions could have spoken to us?
140 Million FGM Victims Globally
It is estimated that globally, between 100 and 140 million women and girls have undergone some form of female genital mutilation (FGM) with two million being at risk each year.
AFRICA: Drugs debate takes centre stage at ICASA
The debate over access to affordable drugs has dominated the 12th International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa (ICASA), with participants at the Ouagadougou meeting calling on rich countries to provide the South with the funds to buy life-prolonging antiretrovirals.
AIDS still Africa's biggest killer
HIV/AIDS is still the main cause of deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region has been overtaken by Eastern Europe, especially the Russian Federation, as the place where the epidemic is growing the fastest, according to a new United Nations (UN) report.
Declaration for a Framework for Action:
Improving Access to HIV/AIDS
This declaration is the product of a year-long consultative process involving 155 experts from 27 countries and 57 national and international organizations. It is the consensus of the participants who convened in Paris at the invitation of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the support of UNAIDS secretariat and WHO on 29 November to 1st December 2001.
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Gabon: New Ebola Outbreak Confirmed
The World Health Organization says the Ebola virus has killed several people in Gabon in recent days. Kenya, Uganda, and the DR Congo have also reported the outbreak. The disease, first identified in 1976 near the Congo's Ebola River, has no known cure and is transmitted by direct contact with the blood and secretions of infected persons.