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- Also In Global Health News: Home HIV Treatment; Voluntary Testing In Kenya; Women/HIV Scorecard; Global Fund Zimbabwe Grant; Contraceptives In Tanzani 25 Nov 2009 14:33 GMT
... Home Vs. Clinic Treatment of HIV In Uganda patients at home is cheaper and just ... according to the . The campaign involves health workers "knock[ing] on as many doors as they ...
- Namanve residents to get medical treatment 25 Nov 2009 19:13 GMT
... park residents are set to start receiving medical treatment as Roofings Rolling Mills moves to ... The Roofings family promotes living in good health because a healthy body and mind breeds ... initiatives for the private sector project (HIPS), Uganda Health Marketing Group, Uganda Red cross Society, ...
- Give us drugs, kids tell govt 25 Nov 2009 19:37 GMT
... infected and affected by the disease in Uganda, 16-year-old Josephine Nabukenya said some children especially ... especially in villages cannot access ARVs, or medicine to cure other diseases because of poverty. ... her committee is committed to push children’s health and rights, to see that by 2015 all ...
- World AIDS Day: Punitive Laws Threaten HIV Progress 25 Nov 2009 19:50 GMT
... target people vulnerable to or living with HIV, the potential of treatment as prevention isn't ... isn't going to be realized. Joe Amon, Health and Human Rights director at Human Rights Watch ... Rights Watch released a of a proposed Ugandan HIV/AIDS law, which includes mandatory HIV testing, ...
- Global Update: AIDS: Study in Rural Uganda Finds Benefits in Treating AIDS Patients at Home 25 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
... scarce. The study was done in rural Uganda, largely among subsistence farmers, by researchers from ... the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, They randomly divided about 1,400 patients with ... from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria praised the study, saying evaluations ...
- Why Circumcision Reduces HIV Risk 25 Nov 2009 01:15 GMT
... including more than 5,000 men in rural Uganda, which had shown that circumcision reduced the risk of HIV infection in men by about 60%, Ron ... the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues investigated factors associated with that reduction ...
- AIDS Research Reveals A Lack Of Family-Planning Programs In Uganda 25 Nov 2009 09:54 GMT
... there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about . Heys' research, on HIV-positive individuals and their desire to bear more ... who studied at the School of Public Health, spent six months interviewing 421 people who lived ...
- 'Ugandan Pilgrims in Mecca Safe From Swine Flu' 25 Nov 2009 06:33 GMT
... Ugandan Muslim pilgrims who are in the Saudi ... still safe despite an outbreak of H1N1 flu commonly known as Swine Flu, Daily Monitor ... all Ugandan pilgrims were still in good health even though four non-Ugandan pilgrims have since ...
- 'Pilgrims in Mecca Safe From Swine Flu' 25 Nov 2009 09:14 GMT
... Ugandan Muslim pilgrims who are in the Saudi ... still safe despite an outbreak of H1N1 flu commonly known as Swine Flu, Daily Monitor ... all Ugandan pilgrims were still in good health even though four non-Ugandan pilgrims have since ...
- Ugandans, let us raise our national flag high 25 Nov 2009 19:31 GMT
... Ugandans, let us raise our national flag high ... agree with the President’s view that suspected drug thieves should not be allowed court bail ...
- Uganda's anti-gay bill causes Commonwealth uproar 25 Nov 2009 08:50 GMT
... would impose life imprisonment on homosexuals in Uganda, whose President is chairing the gathering. The law, ... lesbians in which one person has the HIV virus. The controversy is growing because Ugandan President ...
- Ugandan anti-gay bill divides countries 25 Nov 2009 19:31 GMT
... would impose life imprisonment on homosexuals in Uganda, whose president is chairing the gathering. The law, ... lesbians in which one person has the HIV virus. The controversy is growing because Ugandan President ...
- AHF Launches Ambitious Global 'Testing Millions' World AIDS Day Campaign Hundreds of Organizations in 52 Countries Hope to Test Three Million People for HIV November 26th -- December 6th 25 Nov 2009 03:10 GMT
... Hope to Test Three Million People for HIV November 26th -- December 6th LOS ANGELES, Nov ... Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone ,South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe ...
- In Celebration of World AIDS Day 2009, Crucial Arts Presents An Encore Presentation of Miss HIV by Jim Hanon Which Takes A Look At The International Collision of HIV/AIDS Policies 25 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... Miss HIV by Jim Hanon explores the international collision of ... pregnant women have HIV, is set against Uganda who has experienced the largest reductions of new ...
- Uganda population now at 33 million 25 Nov 2009 21:39 GMT
... BY RAYMOND BAGUMA UGANDAS population is soon clocking 33 million people ... agriculture, changes in food availability and possible health crises. Also, large-scale migrations will intensify as ...
- Dozens dead in Ugandan rebel attack in CAR: sources 25 Nov 2009 16:00 GMT
... remote corner of Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed ... people were killed," Clement Loutemboli, a community health radio operator in the nearby town of ...
- Dozens dead in Ugandan rebel attack 25 Nov 2009 18:14 GMT
... remote corner of Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed ... people were killed,” Clement Loutemboli, a community health radio operator in the nearby town of ...
- Anti-gay bill must go - Lewis 25 Nov 2009 17:35 GMT
... Members Bill introduced into the parliament of Uganda, and now proceeding through the normal legislative ... this section, that person shall undergo a medical examination to ascertain his or her HIV ... Parents, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, preachers, landlords, community health workers, members of the media, civil society ...
- The ills of self medication 25 Nov 2009 19:13 GMT
... our day-to-day setting. Pharmacists, doctors and other health care professionals are faced with increasing numbers ... especially designed and labelled for use without medical supervision and approved as safe and effective ... feature of a number of developing countries, Uganda inclusive where good healthcare systems and regulatory ...
- Remarks by Stephen Lewis Delivered at the Commonwealth People's Forum [document] 25 Nov 2009 10:40 GMT
... Member's Bill introduced into the parliament of Uganda, and now proceeding through the normal legislative ... this section, that person shall undergo a medical examination to ascertain his or her HIV ... Parents, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, preachers, landlords, community health workers, members of the media, civil society ...
- For some Anglicans, Vices are now Virtues 25 Nov 2009 11:14 GMT
... 20th 2009, I read that Christians condemn “Uganda Anti- Gay Bill. Global opposition is going to ... Can't this illness like HIV/AIDS be fought? AIDS/HIV is not against the Bible and the Word ... they don't understand homosexuality and lesbianism as disease. That is why they can dedicate a ...
- UN unveils latest list of '10 Stories the World Should Hear More About' 25 Nov 2009 11:10 GMT
... after separate conflicts in southern Sudan and Uganda, the United Nations Department of Public Information ... But since we hear more about those diseases, we could also try and raise the ... other five stories include two connected to health: bird flu and malaria. After first appearing ...
- Leaders' Integrity Questioned 25 Nov 2009 03:16 GMT
... Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Parliament of Uganda. And today the members of parliament (MPs) ... to the level of being called a cancer. Fighting it is becoming almost impossible. And ... accusation of embezzlement and mismanagement of finances. Health ministers Jim Muhwezi and Mike Mukula were ...
- Ghanaian Wins Award 25 Nov 2009 00:15 GMT
... newspaper coverage of family planning, abortion, and HIV issues in Ghana, was adjudged the best ... Dr Laar of the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, ... just-ended International Family Planning Conference in Kampala, Uganda . Presenting the award, the Dean of ...
- Education Not Execution - Country's Defilement Problem 25 Nov 2009 14:35 GMT
... — Hardly a day goes by in Uganda without a case of defilement making the rounds ... a young child can "cleanse" one of HIV had led to a spike in child rape ...
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