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African Aids campaigners hit by funding cut
01/12/2011 - World news explained

African Aids campaigners hit by funding cut

Aids researchers and policy makers are meeting this week in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, for the sixth annual Social Aspects of HIV and Aids Research Alliance (Sahara) conference.

French Aids campaigners want law change reversed
01/12/2011 - On-the-spot France

French Aids campaigners want law change reversed

Today, 1 December, France joins many other countries worldwide to mark world Aids day.

20/07/2011 - South Africa

New evidence backs circumcision crusade

A campaign encouraging African men to get circumcised to reduce HIV infections was a major talking point at the world AIDS forum in Rome on Wednesday.

14/07/2011

African press review 14 July 2011

In Zimbabwe, The Herald reports that the ruling Zanu-PF party has challenged negotiators to the inter-party dialogue to revise some of the timelines they agreed on the election roadmap, ...

27/06/2011

African press review 27 June 2011

Sex and secrecy, xenophobia and HIV, all figure in the pages of today's newspapers on the African continent...

08/06/2011

African press review 8 June 2011

A psychic leads Texas Police on a wild goose chase. South African sex is getting safer. Phantom oil importers push up Uganda's petrol prices.

02/06/2011

African press review 2 June 2011

Can South Africa end the carnage on its roads? Did broadcasting bosses negotiate in bad faith? Can a new Aids strategy save two milion lives? Has Kenya's finance minister broken the law?

04/05/2011 - France

Changes to immigration law mean sick could be deported

French doctors are worried that changes to the French immigration law will stop foreigners receiving vital medical treatment.

18/02/2011 - South Africa

SA court condemns HIV sacking

In a landmark South African court judgement, a horse-riding instructor who was sacked from his job for being HIV-positive has won his case.

Maggy Barankitse, the angel of Burundi
15/12/2010 - Voices

Maggy Barankitse, the angel of Burundi

Maggy Barankitse started looking after orphaned and sick children when civil war broke out in Burundi in 1994.

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