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The articles below are the most recent additions to the AIDS category of Africa InfoServ. To read the article, click on its title. To see more AIDS articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive. To view a special collection of 33 HIV/AIDS posters from Africa, click on Poster Competition or on the poster to the right.

1.	SouthAfrica: Time to re-think testing
	Author: PlusNews, Johannesburg	Date Written: 26 June 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN/Plus News
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.plusnews.org
	Key Words: South Africa, HIV/AIDS, treatment, prevention,
	Summary & Comment: Research suggests that the assumed, strong relationship between increased testing, treatment, and behaviour change is not necessarily valid in the South African context. Dr Francois Venter urges members of the South African HIV Clinicians Society to think about people who test negative and work to fix the healthcare system so that when people test . . . [expand]
2.	Mozambique: Face to face HIV/AIDS prevention
	Author: PlusNews, Espungabera	Date Written: 24 June 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN/Plus News
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.plusnews.org
	Key Words: Mozambique, HIV/AIDS, ADPP, prevention, treatment,
	Summary & Comment: In Angola, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Guinea Bissaua young activists carry out HIV/AIDS tests and send blood samples to public hospitals for analysis. "Passionate volunteers" help manage small income-generating projects. DN
3.	Male circumcision - what’s the latest?
	Author: PlusNews, Johannesburg	Date Written: 23 June 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN/Plus News
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.plusnews.org
	Key Words: Southern Africa, male circumcision, WHO,
	Summary & Comment: IRIN/Plus News has compiled a list of the progress made since the World Health Organization two years ago recommended male circumcision as an HIV/AIDS prevention measure in: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. DN
4.	Mozambique: Islamic schools join HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
	Author: PlusNews, Pemba	Date Written: 19 June 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN/Plus News
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.plusnews.org
	Key Words: Mozambique, HIV/AIDS, Islamic schools, prevention,
	Summary & Comment: At the Nur madrassa, an Islamic religious school, the malimo, teacher, talks to the 120 students about HIV/AIDS. The message of the Director of the 54 madrassas in Cabo Delgado says the message has two parts: to makes it clear that HIV/AIDS is a divine punishment; and to reinforce the idea that the only way to prevent HIV/AIDS is through abstine . . . [expand]
5.	Award for NGO using dance in HIV/AIDS prevention
	Author: PlusNews, Nairobi	Date Written: 18 June 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN/Plus News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.plusnews.org
	Key Words: Kenya, Nairobi, AfriComNet, award, HIV/AIDs, dance,
	Summary & Comment: In Windhoek the African Network for Strategic Communication in Health and Development presented its award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Communication in Africa to Nairobi-based dance4life. dance4life won in the ’best multi-channel strategy, campaign, or tool’ category because of its innovative use of local dancing to energize existing HIV/AIDS treatme . . . [expand]
6.	Human rights abuses affecting migrants living with HIV/AIDS
	Author: Human Rights Watch	Date Written: 18 June 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: Human Rights Watch
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.hrw.org
	Key Words: HIV/AIDS, migrants, health, rights, discrimination,
	Summary & Comment: This document provides an overview of human rights challenges HIV-positive migrants face. Relevant public health consequences, restrictions on entry, stay, and residence, official and unofficial barriers to accessing prevention and treatment services, deportation, and lack of continuity of treatment upon return to the country of origin are consider . . . [expand]
7.	An alternative to AB(C)
	Author: Annamarie Bindenagel Šehoviæ	Date Written: 15 June 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: NGO Pulse
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.ngopulse.org
	Key Words: HIV/AIDS, prevention, condoms, treatment,
	Summary & Comment: Here is a practical, comprehensive anlysis of the condom issue in the overall framework of the HIV/AIDS epidemic - "an opportunity to explore the Pope’s comments and the outcry against them. Indeed, they highlight a schism in the response to the epidemic, drawn along the lines of acceptance and denial, of treatment and prevention, and of survi . . . [expand]