Kompas, 13 April 2014

SEMARANG, KOMPAS.COM - Limbah kondom bekas pakai di Kabupaten Semarang menjadi masalah baru. Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS (KPA) setempat mencatat sedikitnya ada 13 ribu kondom bekas pakai yang berasal dari tiga kawasan yang mereka sebut sebagai "hotspot", yakni lokalisasi Tegalpanas, lokalisasi Gembol dan Kawasan Wisata Bandungan setiap bulan.

Ketiadaan tempat pembuangan khusus dan pengelohan limbah kondom bekas ini membuat khawatir banyak pihak karena akan mencemari lingkungan dan menimbulkan persoalan sosial.

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JamaicaObserver, 13 April 2014

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The seven acres of leased government land at Belretiro in Central Manchester is now a sprawling green space.

However, there is hope that the beginning of its transformation into a residential facility for children and women living with HIV/AIDS should be realised by year-end.

The flagship project of international volunteer organisation, Projects Abroad Jamaica and the BrigIT Water Foundation in Australia is slated to provide — in a family and home setting — health care and meet the social and psychological needs of 40 children without legal guardian and support, and 20 women who have been ostracised by their families.

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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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