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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KC Ian Hodgson reports from last week’s European AIDS Conference (12 - 15 October, 2011) on the growing problem of antiretroviral stockouts.
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From www.aidstar-one.com
According to the World Health Organization, alcohol use is the world’s third largest risk factor for disease and disability. Only child malnutrition and unprotected sex are responsible for more ill health globally. Alcohol contributes to a wide range of health harms, including injury, liver disease and cancer. But only recently has alcohol’s role in the transmission of HIV begun to be recognized and measured, and interventions developed to address it.
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In the absence of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, people living with HIV in Uganda are seeking other ways to delay the onset of AIDS or to treat opportunistic infections, a trend that is worrying health campaigners.
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The German Ambassador Duexmann Dietclaws has called for joint efforts in the fight against HIV and Aids if lives are to be saved in Uganda.
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KC Ian Hodgson, reporting from the 2011 European AIDS Conference in Belgrade, discusses the involvement of communities in biomedical prevention trials.
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From www.bbc.co.uk
About 100,000 people in India may have escaped HIV infection over five years because of a scheme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a study by the Lancet suggests. The Avahan project was launched in 2003 in six states which had the highest rate of HIV in India at the time.
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The Lutheran World Federation, an international nongovernmental organization based in the eastern Uganda District of Katakwi, has embarked on a massive grass root campaign to sensitize communities on HIV.
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From www.monitor.co.ug
The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) has donated six new double cabin pick-up trucks to religious denominations, to enable them implement the second phase of the HIV/Aids programme amongst their flock
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