Times of Swaziland, 17 August 2014
MBABANE – Government plans to spend over E3.2 billion in five years on a new venture known as the 'test and treat' programme. The Times SUNDAY understands that this is how government hopes to ensure that all Swazis get tested for HIV.
About 230 000 Swazis are said to be HIV-positive and government is on a mission to identify and enrol all of them on treatment.
Part of this money would be spent purchasing ARVs and financing other intervention measures in the fight against HIV.
Khanya Mabuza, Director of the National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA), said government was currently studying the full financial implications of testing the whole nation for HIV, in the effort to implement the 90-90- 90 programme.
the Times of India, 16 August 2014
CHENNAI: Has Tamil Nadu been successful in its battle against HIV/AIDS? Yes and no.
The state recorded a marked decline in incidence of HIV infection and deaths from AIDS between 2009 and 2013 among both men and women. However, in what is both a pointer to the vulnerability of the third gender and an indictment of a failure in social inclusiveness, the mortality rate of HIV-positive transgenders in the state increased by more than 1,600% over the same period.
Tamil Nadu State Aids Control Society (TNSACS) statistics, sourced by TOI through an RTI petition, show that 1,537 men and 814 women died of HIV/AIDS-related causes in 2009. Effective intervention by the state led to a decline in the numbers to 1,323 male and 595 female HIV/AIDS deaths in 2013, a fall of 18.42%.
Lusaka Times, 16 August 2014
Government has urged the Zambia Police service personnel go for Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) for them to know their HIV/AIDS status so that they can plan their lives.
Kitwe District Commissioner Elias Kamanga says when the officers know their HIV/AIDS status they would also know the kind of duties that they can perfume within the service so that they do not endanger their lives by engaging in activities that are not suitable to their status.
ZANIS sports reports that Kamanga was speaking in Kitwe yesterday at Arthur Davis stadium in Kitwe when he officiated at the Zambia police service HIV/AIDS sports tournament.
MSF, 15 August 2014
For patients in poor health, travelling to a clinic for a medical appointment can feel like an impossible task. Since 2013, MSF teams in Mozambique have been visiting very sick patients in their homes to provide them and their families with medical care, counselling and advice.
It is nine o'clock on a Monday morning at the Alto Mae Reference Center (CRAM) in Maputo, and counsellor Luis Ginote and nurse Margarida Bazar are carefully packing their medical kit into the back of a car. The CRAM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Mozambique, was set up in 2010 for patients suffering from severe health problems related to HIV. Complicated cases, patients with Kaposi sarcoma in need of chemotherapy, and patients on second and third line antiretroviral treatment are all given care at the CRAM.
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