Watch the video below!…The Emmy Award Winning DOES HIV LOOK LIKE ME? International Campaign, empowers and celebrates young people living with HIV or AIDS around the world to share their stories and take action. The DOES HIV LOOK LIKE ME? campaign extends to communities and countries around the world by empowering young people living with [...]
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South Africa Redoubles Efforts Against AIDS
…Happy to hear…sure beats the years of denial…But President Zuma, please watch it… South Africa, trying to overcome years of denial and delay in confronting its monumental AIDS crisis, is now in the midst of a feverish buildup of testing, treatment and prevention that United Nations officials say is the largest and fastest expansion of [...]
Full Story »Anti-rape condom may be handed out in South Africa
…anti rape condom… South African women may be issued with anti-rape condoms ahead of the football World Cup. A Cape Town doctor, Sonnete Ehlers, has asked that a condom she developed five years ago be given freely to women at risk. She has said the condom, known as the Rape-aXe, is ready to be put [...]
Full Story »UN and Sony use World Cup to combat HIV and AIDS
“Sony Corporation is partnering with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to bolster the global fight to end poverty by 2015, with a special focus on the campaign to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS. Stopping the rise of HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases is [...]
Full Story »Patent pool decision heralds era of cheap HIV drugs
“A not-for-profit patent pool will be set up later this year to allow developing countries to manufacture cheaper HIV drugs. A patent pool will make HIV drugs more affordable to poor countries…The pool, to be based in Switzerland, is scheduled to start operating in June after formal approval by the executive board of UNITAID, the [...]
Full Story »HIV drugs prevent infection in African study
“People across Africa who took AIDS drugs were far less likely to infect their partners with the virus, researchers said on Wednesday….The study, presented at a meeting of AIDS experts, is one of the first to show so clearly that the drugs can prevent infection as well as keep patients healthy.It could boost efforts to [...]
Full Story »UN partners with MTV to dramatize stories of love – and HIV infection
“The United Nations and MTV are reaching out to young Kenyans to highlight that HIV is not a death sentence though a new three-part television series exploring the lives and love of a group of friends in Nairobi…Messages about AIDS prevention are especially vital in East and Southern Africa, the heart of the global epidemic, [...]
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