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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.	Afrique du Sud: Personne n’a parlé des ravages causés par le VIH/SIDA
	Author: PlusNews, Johannesburg	Date Written: 2 January 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN/Plus News
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/fr; www.plusnews.org;
	Key Words: South Africa, VIH/SIDA, HIV/AIDS,
	Summary & Comment: English follows. M. Smith prend la plume pour dénoncer le silence qui a entouré le décès de sa sœur emportée par plusieurs maladies opportunistes liées au SIDA dont la tuberculose multirésistante. Smith writes about the silence that surrounded his sister's death from AIDS-related illnesses including multi-drug resistant TB. DN
2.	Kenya: Maximising the benefits of HIV/AIDS funding
	Author: Rosemary Okello, Nairobi	Date Written: 2 January 2009
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IPS
	Secondary Category: Kenya	Source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa
	Key Words: Kenya, HIV/AIDS funding, benefits, ITPC,
	Summary & Comment: HIV/AIDS has placed extra pressure on government health systems and increased the workload of health workers whose numbers do not meet the increasing demands. In fact, government health systems have suffered from decades of underfunding because of IMF imposed structural adjustment policies that significantly damaged national primary care infrastruc . . . [expand]
3.	Canada: APAA, quinze au service des PVVIH Toronto
	Author: Darnace Torou	Date Written: 23 December 2008
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: Africans in Partnership Against AIDS
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.lexpress.to
	Key Words: APAA, PVVIH, communauté africaine, ubuntu, jeunes musulmanes.
	Summary & Comment: L’organisme Africans in Partnership Against AIDS a marqué ses quinze années d’existence - « un organisme sur lequel personne ne pariait le moindre centime quant à sa survie! » « Unis, contre le VIH, nous vaincrons » insiste Mme Fanta Ongoiba, directrice d’APAA. DN
4.	Namibia: Giant step in HIV/AIDS fight
	Author: Correspondent, Windhoek	Date Written: 14 December 2008
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: AfricaFiles
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.africafiles.org
	Key Words: Namibia, government, HIV/AIDS,
	Summary & Comment: To help SADC policy makers coordinate their legislative reforms regarding human rights and HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support the SADC Parliamentary Forum that represents the parliaments of Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Z . . . [expand]
5.	South Africa: The Treatment Action Campaign celebrates ten years of activism.
	Author: various	Date Written: 10 December 2008
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: Treatment Action Campaign
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.tac.org.za; www.beatit.co.za
	Key Words: South Africa, TAC, activism, history,
	Summary & Comment: Here is a chronology of The Treatment Action Campaign’s ten years of activism. DN
6.	10 years of the Treatment Action Campaign
	Author: Zackie Achmat	Date Written: 10 December 2008
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: Treatment Action Campaign
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.tac.org.za
	Key Words: South Africa, health, TAC, 10 years,
	Summary & Comment: In celebration of 10 years of the Treatment Action Campaign, on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Zachie Achmat remembers. DN
7.	Ignoring the facts on HIV/AIDS and disability
	Author: PlusNews, Dakar	Date Written: 8 December 2008
	Primary Category: Health and AIDS	Document Origin: IRIN/Plus news
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.plusnews.org
	Key Words: HIV/AIDS, disabled, stigma, prevention, treatment,
	Summary & Comment: The exclusion of disabled people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa is so entrenched that they were even marginalised at the latest international conference on the disease, according to disabled rights activists. DN