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The theme for World AIDS Day 2009 is 'Universal Access and Human Rights', and the efforts of the continent's developing countries to reach some of the key indicators of universal access are under closer scrutiny than ever. Will they do it? (AllAfrica)

A committee set up by about 40 organisations of people living with HIV/Aids is investigating reports of ghost patients receiving anti retroviral drugs from the Ministry of Health's certified Aids treatment centres. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA'S high maternal and infant mortality are a threat to development, finance and economic development minister Syda Bbumba has warned. (AllAfrica)

FORMER health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had been admitted to hospital and might need a second liver transplant, newspapers reported yesterday. (AllAfrica)

The Emir of Dutse in Jigawa State, Alhaji Muhammadu Nuhu Sanusi has called on the general public to abide by simple hygiene so as to prevent themselves from avoidable infection of communicable diseases. (AllAfrica)

Following the disclosure that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is suffering from acute pericarditis, an Abuja based group, the Patriotic League (PL) has called on all Nigerians to pray for his quick recovery saying what the president needs now is prayers and cooperation. (AllAfrica)

The Special Adviser to the Benue State Governor on HIV/AIDS and other Communicable diseases Mrs. Maria Idu has disclosed that no fewer than 400,000 persons have been identified as carriers of the dreaded HIV/AIDS virus in the state. (AllAfrica)

Kenyans have commended the US Government for its financial assistance towards combating the spread of HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the country. (AllAfrica)

HIV/ AIDS pandemic are one of the leading causes of orphan- hood and child labour in Uganda affecting 15percent of children out of estimated 2 million, reports Inea News Agency Ltd. (AllAfrica)

Who is in charge in the event of Presidential disability? This is the question that has been agitating Nigerians at home and abroad since the news of President Umaru Yar'Adua's health condition broke. (AllAfrica)

Fears of a swine flu spread are rising after eight more villagers were diagnosed with H1N1 at Ilula in Kwimba District on Thursday, bringing to 150 the number of people infected with the virus at the village. (AllAfrica)

Kemi Ikuomola, a 40-year-old cancer stricken woman in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, has appealed for assistance from individuals, organisations and governments. (AllAfrica)

Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has warned wealthy Deltans to steer clear from the state free rural health scheme, saying it is for the poor in the state. (AllAfrica)

The cholera outbreak in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado has spread to a fourth district, Namuno. (AllAfrica)

Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido inaugurated in Maputo Central Hospital on Thursday the first magnetic resonance machine in the country, reports Friday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais". (AllAfrica)

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that until more Nigerian children live above the poverty line, the country would continue to record more cases of polio. (AllAfrica)

More than 1000 children below the age of five in Hayin Banki and other areas around Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State, were freely de-wormed at the weekend by men of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), in addition to having the community's drainages, motor garages and streets cleaned. (AllAfrica)

An HIV/AIDS Expo, which aims to encourage the spirit of a caring community by reinforcing the values of Ubuntu, gets off in Johannesburg on Monday. (AllAfrica)

IT is easy for individuals or organisations to stop doing charity work the moment they stop getting funding. (AllAfrica)

TWENTY percent of Zimbabwe's children are dying before they reach the age of five as they succumb to curable diseases, latest data from the Central Statistics Office reveals. (AllAfrica)

December 1 - a day officially reserved to commemorate the World AIDS Day - is a day in which the globe will be taking stock of what it has achieved in its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS and to celebrate its achievements. (AllAfrica)

The School of Midwifery Waterside, Onitsha, has expressed gratitude over Governor Peter Obi's achievements in virtually all areas of human development. (AllAfrica)

THE state minister in charge of youth and children affairs, Jessica Alupo, has said HIV/AIDS and high level of poverty have increased the number of orphans and other vulnerable children in Uganda. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA was the first country in the world to bring down the HIV incidence from 18% to 6.4%. (AllAfrica)

The world's first multi-country yellow fever vaccination campaign began on 23 November, with 12 million people targeted across Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The push comes as the killer mosquito-borne disease is resurging in some sub-Saharan African countries and vaccine stocks are running low. (AllAfrica)

A UNIVERSITY student broke up with his girlfriend after learning she was cheating on him. It is then that he realised he could have contracted HIV, seeing that she was neither faithful nor did they use condoms. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA has, over the years, emerged as a role model in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa and globally. This can be attributed to the Government's effort, broad-based partnerships and effective public education campaigns. (AllAfrica)

HENRY Mutabazi, a 34-year-old man was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2000 but could not start on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) before establishing whether he was eligible. He then went to a clinic for a CD4 cell count, only to find he was negative. (AllAfrica)

THE AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) has launched a door-to-door HIV/AIDS and malaria campaign in Apac district. The campaign aims at strengthening the public health system and training health workers to care for HIV-positive people. (AllAfrica)

JOAN Nyajwaya, a 45- year-old resident of Gulu town cannot stop moving around bars educating sex workers about the dangers of HIV. "I am now a peer educator to these people because they are at a higher risk of contracting and transmitting HIV. (AllAfrica)

Ebonyi State Government has disbursed N100million to six private and missionary hospitals, bringing to N600 million, the amount already disbursed to hospitals in the state between 2008 and 2009. (AllAfrica)

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