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East Africa: Punitive Laws Problematic For HIV Response - UNAIDS
The East African Community is currently developing a law to guide the region's response to HIV/AIDS. The move comes ahead of the commencement of the East Africa common market protocol. The law will allow for a common stance on HIV/AIDS, which aims to be non-discriminatory. Based upon consultations with people in east Africa, the proposed law aims to provide joint treatment policies for people in the region while they move freely across the borders.
Defining the Concept of the Changing the River's Flow Series
Changing the River's Flow Series: A Path to Sustained Change Through Culture-Dialoging
Offering the regional HIV-response a “face-lift”
The “Changing the Rivers Flow Series” is a Regional southern African SAfAIDS programme aimed at reversing the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV and human rights violations, through the positive engagement of cultural structures and concurrent promotion of the principles of gender equality within communities.
Botswana: World HIV/AIDS Figures Go Up
Gaborone - The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world has risen from around eight million in 1990 to 33 million today, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health Dr. Koolaatema Malefho has said.
East Africa: EAC Considers to Set Law On HIV/ AIDS
Kigali — As East Africa (EA) moves towards real integration, the regional bloc has set up a taskforce to develop the bill that seeks to help curb the AIDS scourge in the region.
South Africa: Mseleku Axed
Cape Town - Health department Director General Thami Mseleku, a destructive leftover from former health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's reign, has been fired and will be leaving at the end of this month, with the Western Cape's Director-General for Health Professor Craig Househam set to step in.
Addressing Multiple Concurrent Partnerships Discussion Forum: 19 August 2009
SAfAIDS hosted discussion forum (DF) for government, civil society, the media and traditional leaders under the theme "Addressing Multiple Concurrent Partnerships." The DF took place at the Rainbow Towers (Harare) on the 19th of August from 8:30am to 1.pm.
