HIV and AIDS
From local meetings to advocacy campaigns, KCS document the way in which communities are currently responding to HIV and AIDS. KCs will also report announcements of new HIV testing and prevention schemes and highlight the successes and failures of existing programmes. The impact traditional healers, ARV stock-outs and expired medication have on the lives of those living with HIV is also reported, as are spikes and declines in HIV prevalence rates. KCs also document what life is like for people living with HIV and the impact culture and religion has on their choices around treatment and care. KC stories often examine the links between poverty and HIV, as well as the links between maternal health and HIV, told through the lenses of community campaigns and individual stories.
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The HIV prevalence in the eastern Uganda District of Amuria has increase, a new report indicates.
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The woe of an HIV positive prisoner unmasks Uganda’s security forces and the judiciary’s inadequacy in handling people living with serious health issues in their custody, finds KC Goodluck Musinguzi.
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Prisoners livings with HIV at Ndorwa Government Prison say they are being exposed to heavy work which weakens their health.
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When Collins Wanyama was invited to take part in community care course, sponsored by Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN), he knew his dream of improving his skills had come true. KC Hope Mafaranga reports.
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From www.bbc.co.uk
Illegal home testing kits for HIV are giving people incorrect results, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has warned.
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Farmers in Mwizi sub county, Mbarara district, Western Uganda have been urged to embrace the use of condoms.
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From www.aidstar-one.com
The sixth debate of the Emerging Issues in Today’s HIV Response Debate Series, titled ‘Treatment as Prevention’, will see expert panellists discussing whether countries should spend the majority of what is likely to be a flat or even declining HIV prevention budget on ‘treatment as prevention’.
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Rosemary, 23, from South Sudan, is five months pregnant and a mother of two infants. She recently tested HIV positive and suspects that the father of her unborn child, who died in August this year (2011), infected her. Furthermore, she suspects her partner showed her fake test results so that he could claim to be HIV negative.
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