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This year
Sexual warfare: rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo - smh.com.au
by gregg
Sexual violence is a devastating weapon in the war-torn North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Congolese army and rebel groups systematically use brutal gang rape against their enemies, causing crippling injuries and spreading HIV.
LIVE HOPE LOVE
by gregg
The site is part of the Pulitzer Center's Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica a multi-media reporting project, which includes an extended essay by Kwame Dawes for The Virginia Quarterly Review, two short documentaries for the public-television program Foreign Exchange, a collection of poetry inspired by his reporting, photography by Joshua Cogan, and a performance of the poems set to music by composer Kevin Simmonds.
2008
BBC NEWS | Africa | Getting high on HIV drugs in S Africa
by karlcow
un dernier moment de plaisir avant de mourirAids patients themselves have been found smoking the drugs instead of taking them as prescribed.
Russia | Access to Life
by Spone
Russia, by Alex Majoli
After the fall of the Soviet Union, a wave of drug use swept over Russia, addicting hundreds of thousands of young people. With heroin injection came the spread of HIV, rapidly infecting more than 1 million Russians. Russia’s is among the world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemics, and frequently, those infected are diagnosed too late to be saved.
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2007
Mission response in time of hiv-aids (IBMR)
by wrijneveld
bijlage bij IBMR - goede rapporten over kerk activiteiten en invloed op aids
transect points: Why is HIV so prevalent in Africa?
by paleorthid
Geographer Harold Foster is convinced that it is due to low soil selenium levels.
Archibishop of Mozambique: condoms and HIV cocktails will give you AIDS - Boing Boing
by mbertier
(via)
Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio, the head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique, has been spreading fatal lies about condoms and anti-virals: he claims that condoms and life-saving drugs have been infected with HIV in order to kill Africans.
Brent Stirton - Photography > Ukraine...Sex, Drugs, Poverty and HIV
by karlcow
La pauvreté en Ukraine comme partout, les gens oubliés mais montrés. Tension entre l'opacité (provoquant le choc) et l'habitude (créant l'oubli).This is series of images shot over 10 days in 4 cities across Ukraine. It would have been impossible to do this without a collective of enlightened ex-drug addicts and HIV+ Ukrainians without whom I would never have had the access that I did. It would be remiss of me not to thank those extraordinary individuals who moved me every day I worked with them in their often horrifying world.
Worldwide HIV & AIDS Statistics
by pokabudki
Number of people living with HIV
According to estimates from the UNAIDS/WHO AIDS Epidemic Update (November 2006), around 37.2 million adults and 2.3 million children were living with HIV at the end of 2006.
2006
Journ-AIDS
by Eric_Ar
To encourage and enable journalists to play an informed role in combating HIV/AIDS
To promote discussion and debate among journalists and other key role-players in this area
To monitor the role and the impact of the media and to provide research which ensures an informed and useful debate around this issue
ScienceDaily: Scientists find another key to HIV success
by misspaige
Weill Cornell Medical College scientists say they've determined a protein produced by HIV infected cells prevents immune B cells from producing antibodies.
Has BYU prof found AIDS cure?
by wyliej
& 1 other
Compound could be long-sought breakthrough Researchers, including a BYU scientist, believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do.
Drug combination prevents HIV infection in monkeys | Reuters.com
by zboog
An injection of two drugs normally used to treat HIV patients completely protected monkeys from becoming infected with the AIDS virus, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
2005
Breakthrough reported in HIV research
by YukuanMark
St. Louis scientists say they've determined how HIV invades healthy cells -- and that could lead to greatly improved drug therapies to fight the deadly disease....Get ready to throw away that dusty old box of condoms...
Antony Loewenstein: A friend of mine recently returned from Ghana.
by mikepower
& 1 other
She spent ten weeks travelling around the nation – though little in the crowded capital, Accra - and arrived back with tales of beauty, wonder, large HIV infection and bemusement at Western ways.
worldometers.info
by nhoizey
& 8 others
(via)
Uses your computer's clock, so if you are curious how much we will have HIV-infected in 2050 then just change your system time to 2050. Please note that it will just calculate values based on current statistics
AVERT : The impact of HIV & AIDS on Africa
by tomtom
Informations en anglais sur les conséquences du SIDA en Afrique.
South-South Pharma
by tsalon
Brazil has agreed to help Mozambique fight HIV/AIDS by first acting as quality assurance for imported anti-retroviral drugs, and then building a pharmaceutical plant in Mozambique to produce anti-retrovirals locally. Brazil will train Mozambican staff to
Teaching-aids At Low Cost
by wombat
The majority of TALC’s work is focused on the production and supply of low cost books, which includes many essential texts on tropical medicine, nursing, surgery, HIV/AIDS, child-to-child teaching books and infectious diseases.
TALC also provides other teaching aids including 35mm slides sets, PictureCard training packs, rehydration spoons, child growth monitoring equipment. TALC has also started to develop health information on CD-ROM as part of the e-TALC project.
AndrewSullivan
by mikepower
I've long wondered why we have done so little research on how women can use microbicides in their vaginas to lessen the risk of HIV infection.
