AllAfrica, 11 April 2014

Windhoek — Participants at the just ended Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Meeting on the Global Fund's new funding model have committed to target and ensure robust participation of women and adolescents in designing their plans, as well as implementing gender responsive programmes in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The participants who hailed from Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eritrea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, South Sudan and Swaziland converged in Windhoek for four days to deliberate on the Global Fund's new funding model. Part of the meeting was to make participants understand how their respective countries can access money from the Global Fund for the fight against the three diseases.

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IPPMedia, 12 April 2014

Tanzania Commission for Aids (TACAIDS) has launched new HIV Preventive plan of action dubbed "Three Zeros initiative"...Intended to end mother to child transmission, new infections, AIDS-related deaths, stigma and discrimination among People Living with HIV and AIDS in the society by 2018.

The commission's Advocacy office, Simon Keraryo told journalists in Dar es Salaam that.... Three Zeros initiative was one of the country's top priorities in the fight against HIV prevalence among its population.

He said if all stakeholders could take obligatory efforts and deliberate positively towards prevention of mother to child infection all delivered babies would be safe and free from HIV "this could help the country get rid of the disease," he said.

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IPPMedia, 12 April 2014

Halima and her friend Agnes are HIV-positive. Both stay at one locality, but not one of them has conferred to the other about their status, although they are great friends. Each felt individually that concealing the status was the safest way of suppressing any spread of their HIV position.

Ironically, each suspected the other was infected. They could discuss any issue openly, except HIV. To them such a discussion could invite personal exposure, tantamount to attracting gossip likely to stretch like bushfire.

It is this fear that inhibits them from attending the nearby care and treatment clinic with the wrong perception that everybody at that locality might gossip over them.

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DailyTimesNG, 11 April 2014

The Senate on Thursday passed a bill seeking to prevent the stigmatisation of and discrimination against those living with, or affected by HIV and AIDS in Nigeria.

The upper chamber also approved a punishment of either two-year jail term or a maximum of N1m fine on any institution or organisation which disclosed the status of an infected person.

Any individual who discloses the status of an infected person which he or she obtains in confidence, according to the bill, shall be liable to a fine of N.5m or a one-year jail term.

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Kompas, 11 April 2014

SEMARANG, KOMPAS.com -- Perilaku seksual "lelaki suka lelaki" (LSL) mulai menjadi perhatian di Kabupaten Semarang sebab komunitas ini rentan tertular penyebaran HIV/AIDS.

Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS (KPA) Kabupaten Semarang mendata, sedikitnya lima dari 30 anggota komunitas LSL terinveksi HIV/AIDS selama kurun 2014. Data itu diperoleh setelah dilakukan Voluntary Counseling Test (VCT) HIV terhadap komunitas tersebut.

"Informasi yang kami peroleh di 2014 ini dilakukan VCT 30 orang ditemukan ada lima orang yang terinfeksi HIV," kata pihak Divisi Program Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS (KPA) Kabupaten Semarang, Taufik Kurniawan, Kamis (10/4/2014) kemarin.

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