VOA, 28 July 2014

More than 130,000 people who live in 42 fishing villages along Uganda's shores of Lake Victoria have an HIV-infection rate that is three to four times higher than the national average in this country of 36 million people.

Uganda has been aggressive in combating the HIV virus for more than 30 years.

The IOM studied the fishing communities in six Uganda districts. When they examined the level of knowledge of HIV and the attitudes and practices of people in the communities, they found the high HIV prevalence was caused by many inter-related factors, said Dr. Natalia Gitu, IOM's chief medical officer in Kampala.

Gitu said the IOM study and several previous reports describes the mobility and lifestyle of the fishermen - "The fact that they have every day, new cash, that flows in their business, and it's associated with drinking alcohol, and engaging themselves in unprotected sex."

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PIA, 28 July 2014

ILOILO CITY, July 28 (PIA) --- The Department of Health (DOH) in Western Visayas said that HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is no longer a "death sentence" for persons who have acquired the disease.

This is amid the increasing number of HIV cases in the region with 115 new recorded cases last year, according to DOH-6.

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Liberty Voice, 26 July 2014

While Bill Clinton's recent call to end global AIDS at the 2014 International AIDS Conference is a big task, it can be possible. There are roughly 33.4 million people who are living with HIV or AIDS around the world and since 1981, there have been 25 million people who have died from AIDS. Despite the AIDS epidemic, Botswana is an example of how proper treatment and care is essential in fighting and eventually eradicating the disease.

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is contracted when this virus gets into a person's system through the transference of certain bodily fluids from a person who is HIV-infected. A person can come into contact with this virus through sexual contact, needle or drug injections, pregnancy, childbirth, breast-feeding, and through blood infusions. Once it is in a person's system, HIV attacks T-cells, which play a vital role in maintaining the immune system. As this virus destroys the T-cells, it also replicates itself and attaches itself to more cells in the body, thus rendering the body helpless from against any disease. At its final stages, HIV becomes AIDS and eventually leads to death.

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Pakistan Tribune, 26 July 2014

PARIS: Anti-AIDS drugs have helped save 19 million years of human life since 1996, said an analysis Tuesday which also slashed UN estimates for HIV deaths and disease by a quarter.

"The HIV epidemic is smaller than estimated by UNAIDS", wrote the team which had reviewed data contained in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

"The overall amount of ill-health and premature death resulting from HIV (is) roughly 25 percent lower than the latest estimate provided by UNAIDS in 2012," added a statement carried by The Lancet medical journal, which published the results of the probe.

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Nigerian Bulletin, 26 July 2014

The Federal Government of Nigeria have been urged to procure an indegenous solution to the issue of Human Immune Virus and Acquired Immune Defficiency Syndrome HIV/AIDS in the country.

This report was released by U-Report, a free UNICEF SMS-based platform that allows individual give an account of what's happening in thier community on issues that regards the welfare of the people.

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