InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 19 December 1996.
Sam Pragg
KINGSTON, Dec 19 (IPS) - Some residents in this Northern Caribbean island are busily searching for an explanation for the increasing numbers of persons coming down with AIDS, especially in the tourism resorts. While some are quick to make a link between the disease and activities in the industry, health officials say t
InterPress News Service (IPS) - Tuesday, 3 December 1996
Santos Virgilio
LUANDA, Dec. 3 (AIA/GIN) -- Doctors and non governmental organizations have warned the Angolan government not to ignore AIDS as the rapidly escalating epidemic is headed for catastrophic proportions. Dr. Marques Gomes, an epidemiologist with the National Programme for the fight against AIDS (PNLS), has accused the gove
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 28 November 1996.
Dipankar De Sarkar
LONDON, Nov 28 (IPS) - Fifteen years into the AIDS crisis, the virus that causes the disease is spreading in Central and East European countries, their weakened health service infrastructure unable to tackle the problem, according to new evidence published Thursday. The report by the Joint United Nations Programme on H
InterPress News Service (IPS) - Monday, 18 November 1996
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (IPS) -- The number of confirmed AIDS cases in the Americas has risen to almost 700,000 since 1979 when the disease was first officially reported, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Almost three-quarters of those cases have been in the United States , PAHO says in a new rep
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 31 October 1996.
Meena Menon
MUMBAI, Oct 31 (IPS) - Two years ago, 10 people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in this Indian city, were administered a vaccine which they were assured was a miracle drug. The first dose, administered at a charity clinic in Mumbai (previously Bombay) in March 1994, was followed a month later by a
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 17 October 1996.
Judith Perera
LONDON, Oct 17 (IPS) - Groups most at risk from AIDS in Africa are being missed out by current AIDS prevention programmes, says Doris D Cruz-Grote, an HIV-prevention expert based in Berlin, Germany , who is joining the United Nations UNAIDS programme in November. Writing in the current issue of the prestigious Brit
InterPress News Service (IPS); Wednesday, 9 October 1996.
Toye Olori
LAGOS, Oct 9 (IPS) - A recent order by a Nigerian Military State Administrator that people with HIV/AIDS should be confined has sparked little public outcry since most Nigerians still lack adequate knowledge on how the disease is spread. Navy Captain Joe Kalu-Igboamah, newly-appointed Military Administrator of the Nort
InterPress News Service (IPS); Friday, 4 October 1996.
Isabella Matambanadzo
ZIMBABWE, Oct 4 (IPS) - The benefits of breast feeding are clearly spelt out on a home-made poster plastered lopsidely on a health clinic s flaking walls. It is nutritionally balanced. It is a delicious (sic) food and drink with a perfect combination of liquids and nutrients. It is a wonder drug that both prevents and
ISTANBUL, Sep 17 (IPS) - The careless use of an untested litre of bood in a routine operation has brought the 20th century scourge of AIDS to a remote Kurdish village, hitherto barely touched by the outside world. A closed, largely forgotten community, the small village of Bozlak outside the south-eastern city of Urfa
NAIROBI, Sep 5 (IPS) - The public burning of condoms and AIDS- awareness material in a ceremony presided over by the head of the Catholic church in Kenya has highlighted the deep divisions within this East African country on how to fight HIV/AIDS. The burning ceremony, held last weekend, preceded a Silent Pro- Life Ma
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 29 August 1996.
Isabella Matambanadzo
GWERU, ZIMBABWE Aug 29 (IPS) - The rattle of shakers accompanied songs as more than 250 people moved through the city centre to increase awareness about people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Auxilia Chimusoro chair of the Zimbabwe
InterPress News Service (IPS); Wednesday, 14 August 1996.
Meena Menon
MUMBAI, India , Aug 14 (IPS) - More and more women are having to deal with the trauma and tragedy of being infected by the fatal Human Immundodeficiency Virus (HIV), which is spreading in India s cities. In her twenties, Malati s world was shattered a few months ago. Her husband succumbed to AIDS, leaving her to look a
InterPress News Service (IPS); Wednesday, 7 August 1996.
Amir Mir
LAHORE, Aug 7 (IPS) - It is almost a decade since the first AIDS case was detected in Pakistan , but the government may not have woken up fully to the public health threat from the deadly disease. However, health authorities in Pakistan counter the charge by an international agency that the government is going slow wit
InterPress News Service (IPS); Monday, 29 July 1996.
Charles Wachira
NAIROBI, Jul 29 (IPS) - Kenyan lawmakers are considering making the death penalty mandatory for rapists infected by the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV). A motion to that effect, to be discussed in August, was moved in June in the country s 200-seat parliament by opposition legislator Mwangi Gichuki. He said he did
InterPress News Service (IPS); Saturday, 27 July 1996.
Andrew Nette
PHNOM PEHN, Jul 27 (IPS) - Battered by decades of war and the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia now faces a new onslaught in the form of an HIV/AIDS epidemic, which experts are already predicting could be one of the most serious in Asia. Since screening for the disease began in 1991, detected cases of the AI
InterPress News Service (IPS); Friday, 19 July 1996.
Isabella Matambanadzo
HARARE, Jul 19 (IPS) - It has taken more than a decade of disease and thousands of deaths for Zimbabwe s politicians to come out of the closet and acknowledge that the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) must be tackled at the highest level. A national strategy to curb AIDS is in the pipeline Didymus Mutasa, the
InterPress News Service (IPS); Sunday, 14 July 1996.
Cecile Balgos
VANCOUVER, Jul 14 (IPS) - Asia is home to one of the rare success stories in the fight against AIDS, but the region that is considered to be the next epicentre of the disease after Africa also has tales of horror. At last week s 11th International Conference on AIDS here, Thailand received special mention for its a
InterPress News Service (IPS); Friday, 12 July 1996.
Cecile Balgos
VANCOUVER, Canada , Jul 12 (IPS) - In Rangoon, Burmese authorities have a record of ruthlessness when dealing with opponents of the military junta. In Vancouver, without the back-up of the army, the tactic used to deal with protesters was to stay out of sight. Nyunt Nyunt of the Burmese health department was due this w
InterPress News Service (IPS); Friday, 12 July 1996.
Rajiv Chandra
BEIJING, Jul 12 (IPS) - In China, Acquired Immune Defiency Syndrome (AIDS) is known as aizibing , a transliteration that also means the illness caused by love . Throughout China, the AIDS-causing HIV virus is spreading through injected drug use, sexual contact and mother-to-child transmission. And while today intraveno
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 11 July 1996.
Yvette Collymore
VANCOUVER, Canada , Jul 11 (IPS) - Scientists are soon to begin research on developing new and cheaper therapy that would reduce the risk of pregnant, HIV-infected women passing on the virus during and after pregnancy. Until now, as is the case of with treatment of the disease among adults, the drug therapy that is bei
InterPress News Service (IPS); Wednesday, 10 July 1996.
Analysis - By Yvette Collymore
VANCOUVER, Canada , Jul 10 (IPS) - An AIDS vaccine is hailed as the method that would cut across the kind of cultural, social and religious barriers that restrict the use of condoms, but a number of ethical and funding issues still need to be addressed. Currently, the overwhelming majority of funds for AIDS research go
InterPress News Service (IPS); Tuesday, 9 July 1996.
Cecile Balgos
VANVOUVER, Canada , Jul 9 (IPS) - Even as Thailand battles hard to halt the spread of AIDS, international health experts remain concerned that the Asian region will be the next epicentre for an epidemic that continues to ravage the African continent. Up to two-thirds of the estimated 21 million people worldwide tha
InterPress News Service (IPS); Tuesday, 9 July 1996.
Yvette Collymore
VANCOUVER, Canada , Jul 9 (IPS) - Outside of the main hall of the 11th International AIDS Conference, 45 Ugandan women who have contracted the disease, watch and listen. Brought to this Canadian west coast city by the host government for the Jul 7-12 conference, they repeatedly hear health experts say that the East Afr
InterPress News Service (IPS); Monday, 8 July 1996.
Yvette Collymore
VANCOUVER, Canada , Jul 8 (IPS) - For the more than 20 million people infected with the HIV virus, the 11th International Conference on AIDS should give cause for hope in view of the recent hype over new drug therapy for the fatal disease. Yet, AIDS activists attending the Jul 7-12 conference in Vancouver, say that eve
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 4 July 1996.
Nhial Bol
KHARTOUM, Jul 4 (IPS) - In the communities of Southern Sudan where the early marriage of young girls was the norm, a force more powerful than government policy or education has curbed the practice. The families of young girls have almost shied away from the practice of marrying their daughters off to older men for fear
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 6 June 1996.
IPS Correspondents
GENEVA, Jun 6 (IPS) - The interaction of tuberculosis with the AIDS promoting Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a fatal mixture, warned the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. In the lethal conjunction, tuberculosis increases the morbidity of HIV sufferers, reducing their life expectancy, while the spread of HIV itsel
HARARE, Jun 5 (IPS) - At the sight of a posh car, a raggedly dressed teenager in mismatched shoes bolts off the pavement onto the road and frantically waves his hands in the air like a traffic officer, motioning to the driver to park in the bay. Can I look after your car, bass? he says. The driver grumbles an inaudible
InterPress News Service (IPS); Tuesday, 14 May 1996.
Gustavo Capdevila
GENEVA, May 14 (IPS) - A United Nations programme has launched a study on an anti-bacterial product for vaginal use that could prevent the heterosexual transmission of the Human Immuno- Deficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Spokespersons for the UN programme on HIV/AID
InterPress News Service (IPS); Sunday, 12 May 1996.
Satya Sekaran
KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 (IPS/PANOS) - The spread of the HIV epidemic in Malaysia , combined with the failure of a punitive approach towards drug users, is forcing the government in Kuala Lumpur to consider other ways of dealing with the growing drug problem. Last winter, inmates at a drugs rehabilitation centre in norther
InterPress News Service (IPS); Sunday, 21 April 1996.
Patience Rusere
HARARE, Apr 21 (IPS) - After being shunned by friends when she tested positive for AIDS, the last thing Auxillia Chimusoro expected was the same treatment from health personnel to whom she turned for help. Once they see your card that says you are HIV positive then everybody starts treating you funny. Even the clerk wh
InterPress News Service (IPS); Tuesday, 15 April 1996.
Lewis Machipisa
HARARE, Apr 15 (IPS) - Emotions are running high in Zimbabwe as people discuss the correctness of vice-president Joshua Nkomo s disclosure that his son died of AIDS. Although the country has an HIV infection rate officially acknowledged at 10 percent of the population, Zimbabwe is a society of conservative morals. The
InterPress News Service (IPS); Sunday, 7 April 1996.
Melvis Dzisah
ABIDJAN, Apr 7 (IPS) - The Ivoirian authorities decision two years ago to stop hushing up the AIDS menace has earned international support for the West African nation in its fight to curb the virius. An HIV laboratory, the first of its kind in West Africa, is to be set up in Abidjan, while the U.N. Programme Against AI
InterPress News Service (IPS); Tuesday, 26 March 1996.
Lewis Machipisa
HARARE, Mar 26 (IPS) - With AIDS reportedly rampant within the Zimbabwean army, the ministry of health is seeking permission to conduct anonymous tests on new recruits -- an idea that has not gone down well with the top brass. Health minister Timothy Stamps says the HIV prevalence rate is close to 30 percent among the
InterPress News Service (IPS); Tuesday, 26 March 1996.
Peter Lowe
CHIANG MAI, Thailand , Mar 26 (IPS) - The good news is that traditional opium pipe smoking is a dying habit in remote Thai shantytowns in the shadow of the Golden Triangle, the opium producing region at the borders of Laos , Burma and Thailand.
InterPress News Service (IPS); Friday, 22 March 1996.
Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO, Mar 22 (IPS) - The seven-year legal battle fought by HIV- infected haemophiliac patients against the Japanese government and five pharmaceutical companies has ended, but public distrust of health authorities will persist for many more years to come. The lawsuit has ostensibly ended with plaintiffs accepting an o
InterPress News Service (IPS); Monday, 18 March 1996.
Misha Lobban
KINGSTON, Mar 18 (IPS) - Whether the reason is economics, young love or adherence to popular myths, the outcome remains the same -- young West Indians are contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) at a record rate. Health officials say a look at the transmission rate for STDs prove that young people are ignoring
InterPress News Service (IPS); Monday, 11 March 1996.
Moyiga Nduru
NAIROBI, Mar 11 (IPS) - Anybody claiming to have found a cure for AIDS is assured of publicity. The problem for Prof. Arthur Obel is not all of it has been positive. Scientists and researchers in Kenya have been demanding proof of the authenticity of claims by Obel over his new wonder drug, Pearl Omega, which was haile
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 7 March 1996.
Gumisai Mutume
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 7 (IPS) - Dogged by a funding scandal, battling to put staff in place and fighting for visibility, South Africa s campaign to curb the spread of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is in intensive care. The scandal is arguably the most visible of the problems that have plagued the anti-HIV effort.
InterPress News Service (IPS); Thursday, 22 February 1996.
Patience Rusere
HARARE, Feb 22 (IPS) -- Tsitsi s world fell apart when she learnt that she had been infected with the deadly human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV). That was in 1989, one year after she married the man she had been dating for five years. She says it is only after their marriage that she found out that her spouse, who has
InterPress News Service (IPS); Monday, 13 February 1996.
Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU, Feb 13 (IPS) - After years of indifference, South Asia is waking up to the reality of a fast spreading AIDS virus among its majority poor populace. Experts warn that by the turn of the century, most new HIV infections in the world will take place in this region. South Asia s share of the deadly disease is es
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