Nigeria’s Babatunde Osotimehin is UNFPA’s New Boss

By Seyi Oduyela

Published: November 20, 2010

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin has been appointed by the UN Secretary General as Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

New HIV Cases Drop in Africa

By Shamsydeen Badmus

Published: September 21, 2010

New HIV Cases Drop in Africa Shamsydeen Badmus UN research suggests Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a sharp decline in the number of new HIV cases. The United Nations Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) UNAIDS said that newly-reported HIV incidence declined by over 25 per cent between 2001 and 2009 in 22 countries [...]

Poverty Not Responsible for Spread of HIV

By Shamsydeen Badmus

Published: July 8, 2010

A new study published in this month’s Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that neither wealth nor poverty is driving the spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa.

New Global Funds Grants to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis

By Seyi Oduyela

Published: November 14, 2009

The United Nations-backed Global Fund announced yesterday that it has secured 2.4 billion US dollars to support projects that fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in low-income countries over the next two years.

USAID-Funded Project Increases Access to HIV Services in Uganda

By Seyi Oduyela

Published: November 3, 2009

A new report published by the Alliance describes how Alliance Uganda implemented the three-year USAID funded project, Expanding the Role of Networks of People Living with HIV in Uganda (the Networks Model project).

United Nations Urges HIV Travel Ban Lift

By Seyi Oduyela

Published: November 2, 2009

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged countries worldwide to remove travel restrictions for HIV-positive people. The call comes after US president Barack Obama announced a decades-old US travel ban on HIV-positive non-US citizens would be officially lifted today.

Price Barrier To Malaria Drugs

By Adebayo Somuyiwa

Published: November 2, 2009

Almost one million people die from malaria every year because they cannot afford the most effective treatment available for the disease, according to research released today. The findings from a study of six sub-Saharan African countries and Cambodia were presented during an international malaria conference in Nairobi.

Fighting HIV/AIDS Stigma in Nigeria

By Tayo Adelaja

Published: October 5, 2009

CiSHAN, an Alliance Linking Organisation in Nigeria, has been playing a key role in advocating for a law to protect people living with or affected by HIV.

“More Poor People Now Have Access to HIV Drugs,” United Nations Report

By Seyi Oduyela

Published: October 2, 2009

More than four million people in low and middle-income countries were accessing the treatment in 2008, according to the report by the World Health Organization,

Drug in Villages Could Prevent Maternal Deaths

By Tayo Adelaja

Published: September 30, 2009

Drug in Villages Could Prevent Maternal Deaths By Tayo Adelaja Community-based access to drugs for hemorrhages and infection could significantly prevent maternal deaths in Africa, a new paper by researchers at University College London has found. The researchers developed a mathematical model to estimate the impact of providing misoprostol drugs, which are used to induce [...]

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