Subscribe to the RSS News Feed for AIDS and Health

The articles below are the most recent additions to the AIDS category of Africa InfoServ. To read an article, click on its title. To see more AIDS articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive. Articles marked with a magnifying glass ( ) are longer, more analytical pieces. To view a special collection of 33 HIV/AIDS posters from Africa, click on Poster Competition.

1.	Global South leads the way towards universal healthcare coverage
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 11 September 2012
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: health, healthcare, funding
	Summary & Comment: An increasing number of developing countries are introducing universal healthcare coverage, according to research published in The Lancet. In the early 20th century, two models of universal healthcare coverage emerged in the United Kingdom and Germany, but countries from the global South are creating their own models. The survey of nine developing . . . [expand]
2.	Zimbabwe AIDS activist sues prison over denying inmate ARVs
	Author: South African Press Agency & AP	Date Written: 8 September 2012
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: Times, South Africa
	Secondary Category: Zimbabwe	Source URL: http://www.timeslive.co.za
	Key Words: Prison, treatment, anti-retroviral drugs
	Summary & Comment: Kept in solitary confinement for demanding antiretroviral drugs while in police custody, an activist is suing authorities in Zimbabwe. This will be a test case for all people living with HIV whose rights are daily trampled. M. Makoni.
3.	Global Fund boosts essential services
	Author: Plus News	Date Written: 4 September 2012
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: Plus News
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http:// http://www.plusnews.org/
	Key Words: AIDS, TB, tuberculosis, malaria, TFM
	Summary & Comment: The Global Fund has alleviated the shock of round 11 funding cancellation by Transitional Funding Mechanism. Howver, not all needy countries will benefit. M. Makoni.
4.	South Africa pioneers malaria breakthrough
	Author: Gabriel Manyati	Date Written: 31 August 2012
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: Southern Times
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.southerntimesafrica.com
	Key Words: Africa, drug, parasite
	Summary & Comment: Research and development of diseases mostly prevalent to Africa could greatly benefit if more initiatives take place on the continent. The first ever clinical drug researched on African soil as part of a modern pharmaceutical industry drug discovery programme shows promising results and could lead to single-dose cure for all strains of malaria. Th . . . [expand]
5.	Increasing obesity in sub-Saharan Africa threatens child survival
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 10 August 2012
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Youth & Children	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: food, obesity, health, nutrition
	Summary & Comment: Some pregnant women are dangerously overweight in sub-Saharan Africa. Swaziland now has a maternal obesity rate of 27 percent, and an additional 32 percent are overweight. There is a great variation within countries, with the obesity rates estimated to be three times higher in urban areas than in rural ones. Nigeria’s national maternal obesity figu . . . [expand]
6.	Civilan Society Organisations petition government over typhoid, cholera
	Author: Christopher Mahove	Date Written: 8 August 2012
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: The Zimbabwean
	Secondary Category: Zimbabwe	Source URL: http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk
	Key Words: Water, public health, CSO
	Summary & Comment: Civil Society Organisations in Zimbabwe have petitioned the Inclusive Government to address the outbreak of typhoid fever and cholera which have broken out in the capital of Harare and the dormitory town of Chitungwiza. M. Makoni.
7.	Malawi: HIV self-testing study yields promising results
	Author: Lameck Masina	Date Written: 7 August 2012
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: Think Africa Press
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://thinkafricapress.com/
	Key Words: Researchers, Malawi, AIDS, screening
	Summary & Comment: AIDS self testing is proving popular in Malawi - a study to check the acceptability of using an oral fluid-sampling HIV test kit in private has proved popular. M. Makoni.