DRC: Kinshasa fashion highlights lack of ARVs

KINSHASA, 3 April 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Twelve HIV-positive women held a fashion show in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on 30 March to highlight the plight of tens of thousands of people with HIV/AIDS, and challenge donors and the authorities to provide adequate treatment. full report

UGANDA: Deaf demand inclusion in HIV programmes

KAMPALA, 2 April 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Leaders of the deaf community in Uganda say the government's HIV programmes have failed them because their special needs are not taken into consideration. full report

UGANDA: HIV services in western refugee camps overwhelmed

ISINGIRO, 29 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Health workers manning five health centres in two refugee camps in the southwestern Ugandan district of Isingiro say they are overwhelmed by the high number of refugees and local residents in need of HIV services. full report

KENYA: Many sex workers are married, new report reveals

NAIROBI, 27 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - A new survey of commercial sex work in Kenya, the first to include male sex workers, has revealed that 40 percent of female and male commercial sex workers are in marriages or stable unions. full report

ETHIOPIA: New HIV policy focuses on HIV in the workplace

ADDIS ABABA, 26 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - The government has teamed up with Ethiopia's main employees' and employers' associations to launch a new HIV/AIDS workplace policy that is to be implemented across the nation. full report

SOUTH AFRICA: No HIV and TB workplace policy, no mining licence

CARLETONVILLE, 26 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Regulators are increasingly scrutinizing HIV and TB responses in South Africa’s mining sector, which could lead to the industry being hit where it hurts - the bottom line. full report

UGANDA: Senior health officials suspended amid TB drug shortage

KAMPALA/GULU, 23 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Uganda's Minister of Health, Christine Ondoa, has suspended several senior health officials, including the managers of the national HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis programmes, for poor performance and drug shortages. full report

HIV/AIDS: Activists call for emergency Global Fund donor meeting

JOHANNESBURG, 23 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Almost a thousand Swazi and South African HIV activists marched to the United States consulate in Johannesburg on 22 March 2012 to demand that the US continue supporting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, and safeguard funding of its President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which US President Barack Obama's latest proposed budget will cut by 12 percent. full report

SOUTHERN AFRICA: TB preventative therapy scorecard

JOHANNESBURG, 23 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer of HIV-positive people globally. Almost 15 years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS recommended that people living with HIV be given isoniazid preventative TB therapy (IPT), to prevent active TB, but national implementation of IPT has been slow. full report