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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Women in Kyenjojo district in Uganda have vowed to strengthen communication with their spouses as a means to fight HIV and AIDS in their families.
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From www.monitor.co.ug
Health officials and medical experts have said inadequate HIV/Aids services, especially in rural areas, and growing complacency among people leading to risky sexual behaviours, are threatening to reverse the achievements Uganda has made in the fight against HIV.
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From redpepper.co.ug
The Spanish vaccine MVA-B has been found quite effective against HIV in Phase I clinical trials. As many as 90 percent of the volunteers who went through the tests developed an immunological response against the virus and 85 percent kept this response for at least one year.
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In Uganda, we have recently been distracted by the long-running soap opera of government ministers who have been indicted for taking bribes in 2007 during preparations for hosting a Commonwealth meeting. In the media circus, four seemingly unconnected stories, with far wider implications, passed us unnoticed.
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A recent survey by TASO of its three regional centers Mbale, Tororo and Soroti has found HIV prevalence among youth in rural areas to be higher than in adults and married couples.
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The German ambassador, Mr. Klaus Dieter Düxmann, is visiting the Teso sub region, in Uganda tomorrow (11 October 2011). During the two day visit, the ambassador will launch the HIV work-place policy of the Soroti Municipal Council.
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The female condom is touted to be the only female-initiated form of protection against sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. However, female condom uptake has been very poor in Kenya, reports KC Machichi.
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A health worker has said that the rate at which HIV is affecting people in Rutete,Western Uganda is “alarming” - and that poverty is to blame for people’s risky behaviours.
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