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MALAWI: High-Risk Sex Among Those Who "Do Not Exist" By Christi van der Westhuizen CAPE TOWN - A study on men having sex with men (MSM) in Malawi shows that, as elsewhere in the developing world, this vulnerable group is at greater risk of contracting HIV and AIDS than the general population. Moreover, their risk status is exacerbated as governments fail to target them for health services or information to stem HIV transmission. MORE >>
HEALTH-AFRICA: South Sudan At Risk from Blindness By Skye Wheeler JUBA, Sudan - In the war-devastated South Sudan, a region with a population of over eight million people, Yeneneh Mulugeta is the only permanent ophthalmologist. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: No Water, Just a Bill By Ntandoyenkosi Ncube HARARE - City council turns off the water. National minister in charge says turn it back on. Domestic and commercial users alike dispute their unpaid bills. The shadow of a cholera epidemic looms over it all. Must be Harare. MORE >>
HEALTH: Go Away With Your Spray By Mercedes Sayagues SAO TOME - Zinaldina dos Reus, Zizi for her friends, is washing clothes by a stream near the airport in São Tomé. Her toddler plays nearby. Zizi, 21, can't remember the last time she or her husband had malaria, years ago. She credits the free bed nets and anti-mosquito home spraying regularly supplied countrywide since 2004. MORE >>
RIGHTS: Disfiguring Disease Linked to Right to Food By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA - Noma, an ulcerous disease whose name comes from a Greek word that means "to devour" because it literally eats away at malnourished children's faces in just a few months, is found in the developing world, mainly in Africa. MORE >>
HEALTH-AFRICA: Family Planning: Expand Role For Private Sector By Joyce Mulama NAIROBI - Dwindling donor support in the face of rising contraceptive demand, combined with diminishing government budgets could make already widespread shortfalls in the provision of contraceptives worse. African reproductive health experts are suggesting that the private sector could be the key to filling the gap. MORE >>
HEALTH-AFRICA: Better Tools to Target Malaria By Joyce Mulama NAIROBI - Roughly a billion dollars a year is spent fighting malaria. Using this money most effectively calls for a detailed understanding of exactly who is at risk - enter the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP). MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Wheeling and Healing By Gail Jennings CAPE TOWN - Every weekday morning, a stylish procession leaves the offices of MaAfrika Tikkun NGO in Delft, Cape Town; bumps and jolts through the gravel entry gates; then hits the tar and scatters into every corner of the township... MORE >>
HEALTH: Fighting AIDS in Conservative Mauritania By Ebrima Sillah NOUAKCHOTT - Campaigners against HIV/AIDS in Mauritania face an uphill task to put their messages across, especially those that deal with safer sex and condom use. Campaigners have to cut corners in order to avoid angering the country's powerful religious clerics. MORE >>
HEALTH-AFRICA: TB Vaccine In The Pipeline By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - For the first time in eighty years, a new Tuberculosis (TB) vaccine has entered the efficacy stage of a clinical trial. While the developers are optimistic about the outcome, lung health and TB experts are warning against being overly excited. MORE >>
HEALTH-AFRICA: Early ART: A Stitch in Time... By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - A global call to put people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) at an earlier stage of their illness is intensifying, but most developing countries, especially in Africa, are struggling to meet the current recommendations. MORE >>
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AMREF - African Medical and Research Foundation
Africare
AEGIS - Aids Education Global Information System
Global Health Information Network
The African Centre for Health and Population Studies
Health Aids Action Campaign
PlusNews is an HIV/AIDS news service produced by the UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
