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KYRGYZSTAN: Rare case of child-to-mother HIV transmission
YANGI-NOOKAT, 28 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - The story of how Nasiba, 32, and her 2-year-old son, Akram, both became infected with HIV is not the familiar one of an unfaithful husband and a mother unwittingly infecting her child.
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SOUTH AFRICA: The less shiny side of platinum
RUSTENBERG, 27 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - South Africa's mining houses have received kudos for being among the earliest industries to adopt workplace policies and corporate social responsibility programmes mitigating the impacts of (...)
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UGANDA: Faith: "My greatest birthday present was my CD4 count reaching 500"
KAMPALA, 27 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Faith is a member of the Ariel Children's Club, a group for HIV-positive children supported by the Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF). She talked to IRIN/PlusNews about the challenges of growing up with (...)
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UGANDA: Home births hamper PMTCT programme
KAMPALA, 26 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - The number of Ugandan children becoming infected with HIV during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding remains high despite the government's ongoing rollout of services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (...)
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UGANDA: Bwenge Kana: "People from the community were asking me why I was not breastfeeding"
KAMPALA, 26 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Bwenge Kana is a member of The Aids Support Organisation (TASO) in Mbale district, eastern Uganda. She has been taking antiretroviral (ARV) medication since 2005, when she enrolled in TASO's prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme after (...)
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SOUTH AFRICA: Hope in a shipping container clinic
RUSTENBERG, 25 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - When Margaret Ndinisa came to Freedom Park, the inappropriately named squatter camp that surrounds Impala Platinum mine in South Africa's North West Province, the settlement consisted of little more than a few shacks which the police regularly (...)
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SOUTH AFRICA: Thembi Maboyana: "Most people were dying alone in the shacks"
RUSTENBERG, 25 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Thembi Maboyana is a home-based caregiver who works for a community-based HIV/AIDS programme called Tapologo in Rustenberg, in South Africa's North West Province. She talked to IRIN/PlusNews about life in Freedom Park, an informal settlement that has (...)
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ETHIOPIA: A little money gets big results
ADDIS ABABA, 25 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Birkay Gadenah is not any bank's idea of a good credit risk. The 36-year-old mother of five lives in the tin-roof shantytown of Burayu, 12km west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. But eight months ago, she and nine other women from the neighbourhood (...)
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SWAZILAND: "We are dying, they are flying!"
MBABANE, 22 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Several hundred Swazis, including people living with HIV, marched on 21 August to highlight the need for government to prioritise funding to alleviate the humanitarian crises in the country.
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Blog: It's always wise to condomise
NAIROBI, 21 August 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - During a recent trip to report on a pilot male circumcision programme in Kisumu, a part of Kenya where male circumcision is not traditionally practiced, I was allowed to sit in on a pre-op counselling (...)