Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'HIV/AIDS'
Attempts to Avert HIV Are off Target
by Sarah Boseley, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - The death toll is falling but there is still no hope for an end to the worldwide pandemic....
Education Is Where HIV Care Begins
by Julia Kallas, IPS, Italy - When Shorai Chitongo founded Ray of Hope, a support group for female survivors of domestic violence in 2005, she discovered that three-quarters of the survivors in the group were HIV-positive....
Swaziland: The HIV and Gender Based Violence Nexus
by Bongiwe Zwane, Gender Links, South Africa - Many women go through the same torture when they disclose their HIV-positive status to their partner. This violence is so rife that some women have decided that disclosing their status is not...
Aids Conference Reflects New Hope for Africa
by Mia Malan, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Africa has been the poor relative with too few representatives at global HIV/Aids conferences. But things are changing....
Namibia Court Rules HIV-Positive Women Sterilised without Consent
by Alex Duval Smith, The Guardian, UK - The high court in Namibia has ruled in favour of three women who claimed they had been sterilised without consent....
Should Not Disclosing Your HIV Status Be a Crime?
by Nicole Pasulka, Mother Jones, USA - In 2007, Donald Bogardus contracted HIV from his long-term partner. When he later had unprotected sex with a man who didn't know Bogardus was HIV positive, he was charged under an Iowa law...
Breastfeeding Policy Battles Poverty and Perception
by Mia Malan, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - In 2006 doctors at an isolated government hospital in the former Transkei took a bold and controversial decision -- they would encourage mothers giving birth at the facility to exclusively breastfeed...
Selling Condoms in the Congo
by Amy Lockwood, Ted, USA - HIV is a serious problem in the DR Congo, and aid agencies have flooded the country with free and cheap condoms. But few people are using them. Why? "Reformed marketer" Amy Lockwood offers a...
Living with HIV and Dying of TB
by Shobha Shukla, Counter Currents, India - Fuelled by the HIV pandemic and the spread of drug-resistant strains, tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a major threat to global health. TB is a curable disease that continues to affect millions of...
Women and HIV
by Morolake Odetoyinbo, UN Chronicle, USA - Can we dare take a look at those national laws and policies which make women second-class citizens? Is it conceivable—and that is no accidental pun—that women’s rights can include sexual, reproductive, inheritance, and...
Why Won't the Pope Let Women Protect themselves from HIV?
by Nancy Goldstein, Guardian, UK - As the UN reviews its HIV/Aids strategy, papal representatives are putting doctrine before African women's health....
Forced HIV Testing up for Debate
by Lesley Odendal, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Universal testing and the immediate treatment of HIV-infected individuals could dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, HIV transmission, according to a mathematical model published in 2009 by Dr Reuben Granich of the...
The Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call to Action
by Claudia Stoicescu, OpenDemocracy, UK - HIV infection rates have been falling as have AIDS related deaths. But along with the good news there remains great suffering and discrimination for people who inject drugs. It is important that the new...
Keep on Truckin'
by Alison Hird, Radio France Internationale, France - The 'Move for Life' mobile exhibition at ArtParis aims to fight poverty, racism, AIDS and violence by showing works of art by famous international artists on the side of truck....
The Other Half...
by Matelita Ragogo, Fiji Times, Fiji - Viewing HIV/AIDS only as an issue of an irresponsible sex life (never mind the judgemental package that come with it) is perhaps the biggest barrier to addressing it....
Rwanda: Research on HIV Gets a Boost
by Ruth Kang'ong'oi, AfricaNews, Netherlands - After approval from the Medical Ethics Committee this week, Rwandan Project Ubuzima will spend the next three years conducting a research on an Anti-HIV gel for women which is part of the microbicide medical...
Malawi: Parents Marrying off Daughters as Young as Nine
by Daud Kayisi, Pambazuka, Kenya - The future of many girls in Malawi is in jeopardy. Poverty-stricken parents are marrying their daughters off at a tender age, robbing young girls of their right to education and exposing them to gender-based...
Namibia: HIV Infection Higher in Women
by Irene !Hoaës, New Era, Namibia - Namibia is experiencing a feminisation of HIV/AIDS as women account for three out of every four new infections....
How Microbicides Could Forever Change HIV for Black Women
by Akiba Solomon, Color Lines, USA - Microbicide researchers have brought us one step closer to an HIV prevention method that women can use—strictly on their terms. It’s potentially revolutionary....
Condoms and Common Sense
by Frances Kissling, Religion Dispatches, USA - Last week marked a rare moment in the Catholic Church. Common sense and a modest amount of compassion trumped authority and fear-based moral teaching about sexuality....
Zimbabwe Marks World Aids Day
by Sandra Nyaira, VOA News, USA - Thousands of Zimbabweans gathered on Wednesday in Kadoma, a northern resort town on the Zambezi River, to mark World Aids Day as the country took stock of the human loss from the pandemic...
South Africa's HIV Research 'On the Rise'
by Carol Campbell, Science and Development Network, UK - Research on HIV/AIDS is on the rise in South Africa, a country with the largest number of HIV infections in the world, while Western research efforts have levelled out. Only...
Challenges Emerge as Aids Orphans Reach Adulthood
by Yugendree Naidoo, West Cape News, South Africa- While improved access to anti-retroviral therapy in South Africa has enabled infected AIDS orphans to live well into adulthood, it has created new challenges as the generation emerges to take their place...
Teens Increasingly Not Using Protection
by Amanda Wong, Straits Times, Singapore - 'Too lazy', 'too embarrassing' and 'spoils the mood'. These were some of the reasons given by teenagers on why they think young people here don't use contraception....
Abortion and HIV at the AIDS Conference
by Aziza Ahmed, Sexuality Policy Watch, Brazil - The International AIDS Conference in 2010 held one of the first plenary sessions dedicated to abortion and HIV. The plenary focused on the needs of HIV positive women to obtain a full...
Being Gay and HIV-Positive in Haiti
by Lisa Armstrong, The Atlantic, USA - Paul, 29, would be living in New York himself now, instead of under a battered white tarp in a Hatian schoolyard, were it not for two things -- he is homosexual, and he's...
HIV Hysteria
by Gisela Friedrichsen, Spiegel, Germany - The trial of German pop star Nadja Benaissa, who is accused of infecting a sexual partner with HIV, is the culmination of a witch hunt against the singer. The case revolves around the question...
Vaginal Gel Cuts HIV Infection in Women by Half
by Rebecca Trager, Nature News, United Kingdom - Worldwide, an estimated 33 million people are living with HIV, roughly half of them women, according to UNAIDS. In South Africa, one in three women aged 20–34 is estimated to be infected...
HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Peer Education
by Tsvetomira Georgieva, FOCUS, Bulgaria - Kovachevtsi’ National children’s ecological complex, municipality of Radomir, organizes a summer school on HIV/AIDS prevention for a seventh year in a row. The initiative is organized by the Ministry of Health and the HIV/AIDS...
Fresh Challenges in Kenya HIV battle
by Sarah Wambui, Capital FM, Kenya - Questions about our country’s fight against HIV/AIDS come up. Is it time for us to repackage the HIV awareness message and include homosexual persons as well? Are we fighting a losing battle...
Women: Threats Of Violence, HIV/AIDs
by Bella Akhagba, The Weekend Observer, Nigeria- Around the world, women and girls are confronting the devastating combination of violence and HIV/AIDS, either of these threats alone is challenging enough, but in many cases they go hand in hand whether...
A Call for Sex Workers’ Rights in Africa
by Chi Mgbako, Pambazuka, Kenya - A global conversation about the rights of sex workers is happening without African voices. While activists on other continents have successfully organised to engage governments in dialogue, the criminalisation of the trade in Africa...
Sexuality Discourses in Africa
by Kavinya Makau and Zawadi Nyong’o, Pambazuka, Kenya - Mention sex in most places on the African continent and you are likely to be met with questioning glances. Yet, our African reality suggests that if we are to deal...
Cellphones the Latest Tool in Africa's Fight against HIV
by Susan Njanji, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Cellphones may become a key weapon in the war against HIV/Aids in Africa, allowing counselors to reach greater numbers of people, says the chief of the United Nation's Aids agency....
Islamic Agencies Tackle HIV Stigma
by Helen Mould, Al Jazeera, Qatar - People living with HIV are often discriminated against because the condition is associated with so-called 'immoral' behaviour, such as drug-use and prostitution....
Kurdish Policy on HIV Must Change
by Judit Neurink, The Kurdish Globe, Iraq - It's past time to banish Kurdistan's discriminatory HIV/AIDS policy....
Study Shows Young Women Would Rather Get AIDS than Fall Pregnant
by Caroline Njung’e, Daily Nation, Kenya - More teenagers are growing up without sex education since schools, parents and religious organisation find the subject a taboo. Left on their own, the young adults rely on information gathered at such discotheques...
A Deadly Numbers Game
by Paula Akugizibwe, Maul & Guardian, South Africa - Over the past year, a wave of anti-HIV sentiment commonly referred to as the Aids backlash has arisen largely from Western academics, journalists and policymakers promoting the view that overfunding of...
South Africa: Sesame Street's HIV-Positive Muppet Raises Awareness
by Juhie Bhatia, Global Voices, USA - Golden-yellow Kami made her debut on the South African Sesame Street co-production, called Takalani Sesame, in 2002 in response to the country's HIV/AIDS problem. The world's first HIV-positive Muppet, she helps educate kids...
Shelter from the Storm
by Agnes Kabajuni, Public Agenda, Ghana - Ghana has the lowest HIV/AIDS infection in West Africa. About 260,000 persons are living with the disease. Out of this however, women are disproportionally affected, and constitute about 150,000 of all cases....
Gender Finally Moving to Forefront of AIDS Fight
by Danielle Kurtzleben, IPS, Italy - With women now comprising 61 percent of all people infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, international donors, governments and advocacy organisations are looking more closely at the connections between HIV/AIDS and gender inequality....
Behind Bars for Being Pregnant and HIV-Positive
by Margo Kaplan, RH Reality Check, USA - In May, 2009, U.S. District Judge John Woodcock sentenced Quinta Layin Tuleh, who was about five months pregnant, for the crime of having fake immigration documents....
Man Enough to Wear an Apron
by Kristin Palitza, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Men caring for others is a relatively new phenomenon in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent. "In African society, it is seen as culturally incorrect to involve men in care....
Taking the Wraps off Condoms
by Marcia G. Yerman, Empowher, USA - An August 2008 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) relates that females accounted for 27 per cent of new HIV infections in 2006. In a breakdown along age lines,...
Poverty, Rebel Groups Push Poor Farmers To Drug Cultivation In India
by Dilnaz Boga, Counter Currents, India - India’s North Eastern state of Manipur is paying a high price for its proximity to the notorious Golden Triangle. A population of 2.4 million grapples with HIV/AIDS that stems out of a heroin...
HIV-Positive Women Grow Own Food to Improve their Health
by Lameck Masina, VOA, USA - Women living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi have formed a united front to ensure they get the nutritious foods they need to maintain their health....
Fighting the Spread of HIV Among Bangkok's Addicts
by Thin Lei Win, Reuters AlertNet, UK - "Addiction is not just about drugs. It's about human behaviour," said Paisan. "You need support systems like economic and social support. If you cannot provide them, how can you expect users to...
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