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1.	Egypt-African Union Summit
	Author: Media Statement	Date Written: 15 May 2008
	Primary Category: AIDS and Health	Document Origin: Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
	Secondary Category: AU/NEPAD	Source URL: http://www.africa15percentcampaign.org
	Key Words: Egypt, AU, Summit, health, strategy, framework,
	Summary & Comment: The loss of over 8 million lives a year to preventable, treatable, and manageable diseases and health conditions is not acceptable or unsustainable. The African Union's Public Health 15% Now Campaign has launched a 30 day countdown to the mid year African Union summit to be held in Egypt from the 24th of June. DN
2.	Kenya: Muslim clerics declare war on condoms
	Author: Plusnews, Garissa	Date Written: 12 May 2008
	Primary Category: AIDS and Health	Document Origin: IRIN/Plus News
	Secondary Category: Kenya	Source URL: http://www.plusnews.org
	Key Words: Kenya, HIV/AIDS, Muslim clerics, condoms,
	Summary & Comment: Muslim leaders in northeastern Kenya have promised to preach and campaign against the use, promotion, and distribution of condoms as a means of preventing HIV/AIDS and immorality. "The Ministry of Health’s campaigns to fight HIV/AIDS are using the wrong way, which is not acceptable to our tradition and religion; we must be involved in the camp . . . [expand]
3.	South Africa: Mbeki’s HIV/AIDS denial: Grace or folly? Part 4 of 5
	Author: William Gumede	Date Written: 6 May 2008
	Primary Category: AIDS and Health	Document Origin: Pambazuka News
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: South Africa, HIV/AIDS, Mbeki, Gumede,
	Summary & Comment: Here is Part 4 of 5 providing context for the controversies surrounding Mbeki’s HIV/AIDS policies from ’Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC’ by William Gumede. DN
4.	One in three malaria drugs failing in Africa
	Author: various	Date Written: 6 May 2008
	Primary Category: AIDS and Health	Document Origin: Health-e
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.health-e.org.za
	Key Words: health, malaria, drugs, failing, antimalarial, ACTs,
	Summary & Comment: Anti-malaria drugs in six African cities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda fail basic quality tests. These sub-standard anti-malarial drugs cause an estimated 200,000 avoidable deaths each year, jeopardize future malaria treatment strategies, and accelerate parasite resistance. A third of the drugs collected in the study were ar . . . [expand]
5.	Balancing books at the cost of lives
	Author: Pan-African Postcard, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem	Date Written: 5 May 2008
	Primary Category: AIDS and Health	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 366
	Secondary Category: AU/NEPAD	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: health, Abuja, 15%, annual budgets,
	Summary & Comment: The author looks at the the Africa Public Health Development Trust campaign to hold African governments to their commitment of allocating 15% of their annual budgets to health and concludes that the 2001 Abuja 15% pledge involves a betrayal of the dead and the living, a choice between life and death. DN
6.	Guinea Ecuatorial: AIDS and the contradictions of Spanish development cooperation
	Author: Agustin Velloso	Date Written: 2 May 2008
	Primary Category: AIDS and Health	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 367
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Guinea Ecuatorial, HIV/AIDS, contradictions, AECID,
	Summary & Comment: The AECID implements its health work in order to strengthen a National Health System in Equatorial Guinea. Private clinics flourish whose services only the very well-off can afford flourish there. Several are owned by President Obiang's family members. Despite foreign aid and government propaganda, HIV/AIDS treatment is a disaster. Some laws s . . . [expand]
7.	Boosting vaginal health could cut HIV risk
	Author: Kelly Morris,	Date Written: 1 May 2008
	Primary Category: AIDS and Health	Document Origin: AIDS Map
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.aidsmap.com/en
	Key Words: HIV/AIDS, vaginal health, risk,
	Summary & Comment: Oral treatment to improve vaginal health may have the potential to reduce the risk of infection with HIV for women, according to a study published in the May 15th edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. DN