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25 May 2004-SA
in fresh dispute with global Aids fund
Johannesburg - A new dispute has broken out between South Africa and the
world's chief Aids funding organisation, which accuses the government of
delaying disbursement of millions of dollars in HIV and Aids assistance.
South Africa has an estimated five million people infected with Aids, the
highest number in the world, and has frequently been accused of moving too
slowly to combat the epidemic.
Richard Feachem, head of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and
Malaria, told South African media this week that Pretoria was failing to get
international grant money to organisations fighting the disease on the
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25 May 2004-Manto
rejects Aids funds delay claims
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has vigorously
rejected a claim that her department is delaying distribution of donor money
to fight Aids.
Richard Feacham, director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria,
made the claim this week, saying his organisation might look at other
distribution mechanisms than the central government.
However Tshabalala-Msimang has expressed "surprise and disbelief" at
Feacham's statement, and according to her department has written to him to
this effect.
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26 May 2004-Aids
is high on Ndebele's provincial agenda
KwaZulu-Natal
Premier Sbu Ndebele has announced a comprehensive strategy to fight HIV and
Aids in the province, which includes accrediting more institutions to
administer anti-retrovirals and increasing the number of patients on the
programme.
Delivering his state-of-the-province address in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday,
Ndebele noted that KwaZulu-Natal had the highest rate of people living with
HIV and Aids.
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6 May 2004
-An
End to Silence |
The Mail & Guardian has had many run-ins with Inkatha Freedom
Party
president Mangosuthu Buthelezi. But we would be the first to
applaud his
exemplary leadership on HIV/Aids, which stands in sharp contrast
with
the muddled, secretive and ideologically driven approach of his
counterparts in the ruling African National Congress. Clearly at
his
prompting, KwaZulu-Natal became one of the first provinces to
make
nevirapine generally available to prevent mother-to-child
transmission of
the virus - in defiance of national policy.
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04 May
2004 -
MPs to Undergo HIV Testing
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least 12 Members of Parliament are expected to undergo HIV counselling and
testing at the New Start Centre this Friday in a bid to remove the societal
stigma attached to people living with HIV and Aids. |
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04 May 2004-Manufacture
of AIDS Drugs Soon -Obasanjo |
President Olusegun
Obasanjo has announced that a new pilot project for
the mass provision of antiretroviral drugs for people
living with HIV/AIDS
in the country will start soon. Obasanjo disclosed
this while declaring
open the three day 4th National Conference on HIV/AIDS
in Abuja.
Under the pilot scheme, negotiations for the local production of ARV's
have been concluded to scale up the number of those covered by the
programme from its current 13,000 upward.
Represented by Health minister, Professor Eyitayo Lambo, the president
added that the government has substantially increased budgetary
allocations to HIV/AIDS control reducing import duties on the drugs as a
way of assisting those living with the disease and boosting their
immunity.
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February 2004 - National
HIV rate drops among youth
Increased
levels of awareness about Aids and the human immunodeficiency virus have
resulted in a stabilisation in the HIV rate nationally, Deputy President
Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
Replying to a question in the National Council of Provinces, he said a
recent antenatal survey showed a drop in the infection rate among South
African youth under the age of 20, from 22% to 15%.
On the government's programme, announced in November last year, to
establish outlets for the provision of anti-retrovirals to those with
Aids, Zuma said "progress is being made".
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February 2004 - Malawi
to launch first Aids policy
Malawi's President Bakili Muluzi will on Tuesday
launch the country's first-ever policy on HIV/Aids amid claims by health
officials that the alarming infection rates in the Southern African nation have
stabilised over the years. Malawi, where HIV/Aids and sexual topics are taboo,
has had no Aids policy for the past 21 years. |
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04
February 2004 - Nigeria
runs out of Aids drugs
More
than 14 000 people living with Aids in Nigeria who had been receiving
anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs subsidised by the government are running out of
supplies, an HIV/Aids activist group said on Tuesday.
Nsikak Ekpe, president of Aids Alliance Nigeria (AAN), an organisation that
represents people living with Aids in Africa's most populous country, said the
government had stopped supplying drugs at almost all the 25 treatment centres
selected for the programme across the country. |
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