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RIGHTS-INDIA: India's Historic Gay Ruling
By Ranjita Biswas
KOLKATA - A day after the Delhi High Court's landmark judgment to overturn a colonial law that criminalised homosexuality, Indians expressed mixed reactions to the verdict.
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RIGHTS-NAMIBIA: 'Cut, Cut Again and Now Tie Tightly'
By Servaas van den Bosch
WINDHOEK - Anna Shikongo* wanted many more children, but five-month old Johannes, perched on her lap, will forever be her lastborn. She was sterilised by doctors at a government hospital. Now she is ready to take the government to court.
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WINDHOEK - What started as a multi-billion dollar tsunami against HIV/AIDS during the presidency of George W. Bush has trickled down to a carefully channelled stream of funding under president Barack Obama. Instead of the additional billion dollars a year promised for AIDS funding, Congress approved a meagre $165 million increase for 2010.
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DEVELOPMENT: Global Campaign to Salvage U.N.'s Health Goals
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The global economic crisis, which has pushed millions more into extreme poverty, is threatening to have a devastating impact on the health of women and children.
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HEALTH-MOZAMBIQUE: Scant Progress With Paediatric HIV
By Ruth Ayisi
INHAMBANE, Mozambique - Christina M.* looks worried as she cradles one of her sick twin babies. The mother of five already lost twins and another baby to illness soon after childbirth a few years ago.
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By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - As the global economic downturn begins to take its toll on developing countries, Swaziland's health system - already strained by the burden of HIV/AIDS - has come under severe threat. The third of the national health budget which comes directly from donor agencies is abruptly drying up.
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DEVELOPMENT: ‘‘19th WEF on Africa Just About Elite Agendas’’
By Miriam Mannak
CAPE TOWN - The 19th World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, which kicks off tomorrow, is a space ‘‘for the rich and powerful elites who control the global economy and who seek to further open Africa’s economy in collaboration with a tiny minority of corrupt elites in Africa.
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Mental Illness in HIV-Positive Patients Largely Ignored
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - Although mental disorders, such as depression and dementia, are a commonly associated with HIV, they remain largely undiagnosed in South Africa. Lack of human and financial resources for mental health are the main reason for this, researchers say.
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LESOTHO: Cultural Beliefs Threaten Prevention of Mother-Child HIV Transmission
By Thabo Mohale
MASERU - A health centre in one of Lesotho’s poorest districts has scored significant success in implementing a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme, but health experts warn that a number of factors, including cultural beliefs and stigma, threaten to derail it.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Global Financial Crisis Leads to HIV Budget Cuts
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - International donors and African governments are likely to cut health budgets due to the global financial crisis. Health experts fear that increasing unemployment and poverty will lead to less food security and quality of nutrition, which will in turn put more stress on already weak health systems.
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HEALTH-SWAZILAND: New Effort To Control TB
Mantoe Phakathi interviews THEMBA DLAMINI, Swaziland National TB programme manager
MBABANE - Swaziland saw a 5.6 percent increase in tuberculosis cases between 2008 and 2007. Out of a population of one million, 10,000 are infected with TB, one of the highest rates of TB infection in the world.
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RIGHTS-IRAN: Day of Protests for Jailed AIDS Doctors
By Shari Nijman
UNITED NATIONS - A handful of motivated doctors, HIV/AIDS and human rights activists held rallies Tuesday in New York City and 20 countries to protest the imprisonment of Iranian doctors Arash and Kamiar Aleai.
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Lethal Link Between Gender Violence and AIDS
By Valeria Vilardo
SANTO DOMINGO - When she went to the doctor, 25-year-old Francisca Barros received two pieces of earthbreaking news. The welcome news was that she was pregnant. The terrifying news: that she was HIV-positive.
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News in RSSMore than two decades after the first case of HIV infection was reported, this deadly virus is spreading inexorably around the globe: almost 40 million adults worldwide are now infected by HIV, which constitutes far more than a health crisis. HIV/AIDS makes its presence felt in many areas -- it undermines the ability to work, food production, education and the advancement of women.

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Training Manual for the Media: Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights

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IPS - Inter Press Service has published a training manual for the media on how to report on HIV/AIDS from a gender and rights perspective which is now available online here (pdf, 503KB).

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