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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From www.monitor.co.ug
Like some drugs that pharmacists dispense to patients, Godfrey Byaruhanga, 57, should take ARVs after meals.
Byaruhanga now appreciates that. “One day, I took my medication on an empty stomach because our meal had been delayed. I felt like there was fire in my stomach,” he recalls. No wonder that he felt that way. A Zimbabwean health worker said in 2009 that taking antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) on an empty stomach would be like ‘digesting razor blades’.
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From www.monitor.co.ug
The duration of establishing the HIV status in infants has been reduced from 40 to three days after the launch of a new network system of transporting blood samples and results.
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Winston Zulu, who in 1990 was the first person living with HIV to disclose his HIV status in Zambia, and the first in this part of the region, was put to rest on 15th October 2011 in Lusaka.
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From www.monitor.co.ug
For decades, HIV/Aids has swept across the globe felling the young, the old, children and couples, the brunt of the sting has been felt more deeply by grandmothers who have watched, most times helplessly, how their children have succumbed to the killer disease. Even though some grandmothers have fallen victim themselves, most have trodden the blighted path in caring for their children or grandchildren many times single-handedly.
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He came to The Aids Support Organisation (TASO) in Mulago dressed in the conspicuous yellow uniform for inmates. Even for his 57 years, Geoffrey Byaruhanga looked rather frail. Not that the Prisons Service warders subjected him to hard labour at the Murchison Bay Prisons hospital, no. He is just in tougher environs where, even thought the meals may be ‘regular’, they might not be palatable and nutritious enough for a person living with HIV/Aids.
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From www.monitor.co.ug
A popularly contraceptive could double the risk of contracting HIV among users as well as increase chances of transmitting it to their partners. According to a report in The Lancet, a study in seven sub Saharan African countries indicated a higher infection rate among women using the hormonal contraceptive administered by injection every three months.
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From www.monitor.co.ug
Elderly persons living with HIV and Aids have been left out when it comes to programmes that address the issues concerning the disease and yet many of these people are still sexually active.
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Much of this year’s European AIDS Conference (Belgrade, Serbia, 12 – 15 October 2011) has been a heady mix of hardcore treatment science and treatment advocacy. This is perhaps best demonstrated by the prominent role played by the European AIDS …
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