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Bush demanded billions for AIDS in Africa at his 2003 State of the Union. It paid off.

By 2003, Sub-Saharan Africa, HIV’s epicenter, was on the precipice of broad-based societal collapse due to AIDS. Life expectancy had plunged by 20 years, infant mortality had doubled, child mortality ...
UC San Francisco

School of Nursing Tackles HIV/AIDS in Africa

In Part 1 of a three-part story that originally appeared in the School of Nursing's Science of Caring, Andrew Schwartz reports on how nurses and nurse researchers in sub-Saharan Africa - mostly women ...
The Lancet

Lessons from Africa: health diplomacy in HIV prevention

In these uncertain, volatile, and unprecedented times, the role of science is more important than ever. Scientific advances that benefit humanity and ensure planetary sustainability for current and ...
NPR

S. African Research Focuses on AIDS Orphans

South Africa's University of the Witswatersrand launches a project to reduce the number of children orphaned by AIDS. The goals are to increase the survival rate of HIV-infected mothers and to inhibit ...
PBS

Fighting AIDS Africa and the Caribbean

President Bush's recent announcement in his State of the Union address of a new initiative on HIV and AIDS, signaled a marked increase in American assistance to fight the global pandemic. Ladies and ...
PBS

Left Behind by HIV and AIDS in Africa

The devastation of HIV and AIDS in Africa has affected many more than just those stricken with the disease. Special correspondent Tom Hagler has this story of the grandmothers and orphans of western ...
Business Wire

AHF Africa Praises African Leaders’ Pledge to End AIDS in Children

KAMPALA, Uganda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally, praised the commitment by African nations to eliminate AIDS in children ...
c-span

HIV/AIDS in Africa

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The Nation Newspaper

HIV/AIDS: Africa worst hit with 25.6m infected persons, says WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS with 25.6 million persons already infected with the virus. WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, ...

SA becomes first African country to register anti-HIV jab Lenacapavir, but what is it and why does it matter?

South Africa has made history by becoming the first African nation to register Lenacapavir, a revolutionary long-acting injectable drug in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
NPR

Battling HIV/AIDS in African-American Communities

Debra Fraser-Howze, president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, talks about what can be done to slow the HIV/AIDS crisis in black America. Now, for more of what can be done ...