Disabled people in Botswana have been largely excluded from the country’s HIV/AIDS efforts, disability advocates said at a recent two-day workshop, Botswana’s Mmegi reports.
According to speakers at the workshop, it is unfortunate that some people in Botswana claim that there have been successes in the fight against HIV/AIDS without mentioning young people living with disabilities.
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Disabled people in Botswana largely neglected in HIV/AIDS efforts
Op-Ed: Linking Women’s Rights and Sexual Health
For the poor in a place such as Zambia — and perhaps for the poor in every place — there is an eggshell fragility to life. A single crack and all is broken.
For Zilose, a gentle woman in her early 40s, it began with the death of her husband, probably from AIDS. Then she became [...]
UN Urges Progress in Fighting Mother-Child Transmission
Only a quarter of HIV-positive pregnant women in poorer countries receive antiretroviral therapy to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to a UN report issued on April 3rd. Nevertheless, the report found that increasing numbers of HIV-positive children and expectant mothers are receiving anti-HIV drugs.
Jointly produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS and UNICEF, [...]
Some people may transmit weaker AIDS virus-study
People with a genetic variation that slows down HIV may also be causing a mutation to the AIDS virus that makes it less potent if transmitted to others, researchers said on Friday.
The human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS attacks immune system cells. Like other viruses, it cannot replicate on its own but must hijack a [...]
Rift Over AIDS Treatment Lingers in South Africa
It has been proven that using at least two antiretroviral medications dramatically reduces the likelihood of transmitting HIV during childbirth. President Mbeki’s past sex scandal involved him having sex with an HIV-positive woman, which he denies, speaks to a government that is harming its citizens through inaction. There is a widely held belief that pharmaceutical [...]
Bottom Line for Project (Red)
A year ago, staff members at the Treatment and Research AIDS Center could barely cope. Patients, unable to find care elsewhere, flowed in from every corner of the country. And if one of them was fortunate enough to find a bed here, she often had to share it.
Today, a dozen patients, mostly women, sit in [...]
Longer Drug Regimen Found to Help Babies Avoid HIV
Over recent years, giving an antiretroviral drug to a woman infected with the AIDS virus in labor and to her baby at birth has reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to the baby.
Yet many babies born uninfected go on to acquire H.I.V., the AIDS virus, in the lengthy period of breast feeding because of [...]