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  1. Australia urged to scrap HIV travel bans

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    United Nations AIDS chief Michel Sidibe says Australia should follow the United States and China and remove travel restrictions affecting people who are HIV positive... "I am surprised [by the restrictions] because I think Australia is a model of human rights," said Mr Sidibe. "To know that in Australia we have a restriction for people living with HIV... is a little bit painful for me"... ...
  2. Pastor's 'Jesus had HIV' sermon angers South African Christians

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    Xola Skosana takes HIV test in front of congregation and encourages young members of the church to do the same A pastor has angered Christians in South Africa by preaching a sermon entitled "Jesus was HIV-positive" in an attempt to break what he regards as a conspiracy of silence by the South African church. Xola Skosana said that HIV is stigmatised as evil and a sin in the country that has...
  3. Religious leaders living with HIV establish network in Ghana

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    Accra - Ghana on Tuesday became the 19th African country to recognise religious leaders infected with HIV virus, who have openly declared their status and formed a network to use the Gospel to fight stigmatisation and prevent further infection. Dr Angela El Adas, Director-General of Ghana AIDS Commission, called on members of the network to unite in mind and faith to achieve their objective of ...
  4. White House: Continuing Our Commitment To Prioritizing HIV/AIDS

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    Today, the Obama Administration is taking new action to prioritize support for Federal HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs. We are sending to the Congress an amendment to the President's FY 2011 budget request to increase HIV/AIDS funding by $65 million. This is comprised of a requested $35 million increase for HIV prevention in order to continue exciting new HIV prevention activities described ...
  5. Campaign nudges US Pres Obama to add to AIDS funding, but still ?not nearly enough,? says AHF

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    In his fiscal year 2011 budget amendments for the US Department of Health and Human Services presented for Congress consideration last Friday, President Barack Obama proposed increases for, among other things, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention funding - possibly in response to this month’s campaign by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) advertising campaign denouncing the President for not keepin...
  6. Cote d'Ivoire: Ivorian experts strategize against HIV/AIDS

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    Ivorian experts strategize against HIV/AIDS - A national consultation was held Thursday in Abi djan, the Ivorian capital, on the development of a global strategy towards the fight against HIV/AIDS, at the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO). The objective of the consultation was to gather inputs from Cote d'Ivoire, with a view to preparing the final document of the global strategy...
  7. AIDS activists: Chinese colleague detained

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    BEIJING — Police in central China have detained an AIDS activist who contracted the virus as a boy and whose tireless campaigning for the rights of those with the disease angered local authorities, his fellow activists said Saturday. Under pressure to end Tian Xi's campaigning, police from his home town of Gulu detained the 23-year-old on Tuesday and first held him at a county hospital before h...
  8. Donor Fatigue New Threat to HIV, Aids Fight

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    An aftershock of the deadly HIV and Aids tremor whose epicentre was located in sub Saharan Africa way back in the 1990s threatens to reverse all the gains made so far in the fight against the world’s most dreaded ailment. The shock is in the form of alarming donor fatigue that is being felt across the sub-region. The waning interest among donors has diminished hope for the more than 22 million ...
  9. Donor Fatigue New Threat to HIV Fight Financial Gazette

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    An aftershock of the deadly HIV and Aids tremor whose epicentre was located in sub Saharan Africa way back in the 1990s threatens to reverse all the gains made so far in the fight against the world’s most dreaded ailment. The shock is in the form of alarming donor fatigue that is being felt across the sub-region. The waning interest among donors has diminished hope for the more than 22 million ...
  10. Dollar Diplomacy Can Be Healthy For China

    01:00 on 1st January 1970
    Beijing is handy at tapping into international funds for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. Here's why sending money to China also helps the rest of the world. Ambassador Jack Chow's recent FP article, China's Billion-Dollar Aid Appetite, is misleading in its characterization that multilateral development aid sent to China to address HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria comes at the expense of ...