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Overworked and under-protected
DAKAR, 4 December 2008 (PlusNews) - While healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa struggle to deal with unmanageable workloads resulting from HIV/AIDS, a new study has found that their needs are being neglected.
SOUTH AFRICA: Global Fund money gets stuck with health department
CAPE TOWN, 3 December 2008 (PlusNews) - South Africa's Department of Health has failed to channel US$3.9 million in donor money to 13 HIV/AIDS organisations, leaving them underfunded.
Will criminalising HIV transmission work?
JOHANNESBURG, 1 December 2008 (PlusNews) - Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are looking at a new way of preventing HIV infections: criminal charges. But experts argue that applying criminal law to HIV transmission will achieve neither criminal justice nor curb the spread of the virus; rather, it will increase discrimination against people living with HIV, and undermine public health and human rights.
Tailor prevention programmes, says UNAIDS
JOHANNESBURG, 2 December 2008 (PlusNews) - As the global financial crisis raises the spectre of cutbacks in AIDS funding, countries need to start being more strategic about how they spend their AIDS budgets.
Testing, Immediately Treating HIV/AIDS Cases in Africa Could Halt Epidemic, Model Predicts
28 November 2008 (Kaisernetwork) - Testing all adults annually for HIV and immediately treating every person who tests positive "could virtually end the AIDS epidemic in Africa in about a decade," according to a mathematical model published Wednesday in the journal Lancet, the Washington Post reports.
Africa: Mathematical Model Suggests New Approach to AIDS
London, 28 November 2008 (allAfrica) - Scientists have proposed a radical new strategy to halt the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but its implementation could have human rights implications, say commentators.
