Swaziland: Mswati's HIV-Aids Idiocy Highlights Our Bitter Struggle
[COSATU]Swaziland's absolute ruler, [i]Mswati III, adds a grotesque twist to Marx's observation that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - February 27, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: Media Back King's False HIV Promise
[Swazi Media]Newspapers in Swaziland lost their critical faculties when they reported that King Mswati 'would personally' eradicate HIV and AIDS in the kingdom by 2022. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 23, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: New Programming Guide Highlights Food and Nutrition in Fight Against HIV/Aids
[WFP]At the dawn of the 2015 development agenda, the global health community is rallying around the "ending of AIDS by 2030", a goal that now appears within reach. With the power of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to both extend the lives of people living with HIV and prevent new infections, treatment has rightly been placed at the core of the strategy for moving forward. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - January 28, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: Swazi Churches Circumcision Blunder
[Swazi Media]Churches in Swaziland have agreed to back male circumcision as a way to prevent the spread of HIV even though there in no concrete proof that the procedure works and attempts to get people to have the operation in the past have failed. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 20, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: Swaziland Aims for Malaria Elimination
[Global Fund]Mbabane -The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Kingdom of Swaziland have strengthened their partnership by signing a new grant to support the elimination of malaria in the country by the end of 2015 with World Health Organisation certification by 2020. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - January 14, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Southern Africa - The fight to end GBV and HIV & AIDS
[Gender Links]Maputo -According to the 2014 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer, HIV and AIDS prevalence has decreased consistently over the past decade as fewer people are becoming infected. New infections among adults have decreased by over 50% in Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. New infections among adults have decreased by over 25% in Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland. Despite this progress, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the most affected area in the world. SADC accounts for 55% of all people living with (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 3, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: Swazis Among Hungriest in World
[Swazi Media]Swaziland is the seventh hungriest country in the world, according to a United Nations report. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 1, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: Nutrition Advice Helps Farmer Win Battle Against Aids
[WFP]Diagnosed as HIV positive in 2011, Sabelo became badly malnourished as he struggled to keep his farm going and feed his family. He seemed to be on a downward spiral. But a combination of antiretrovirals, food assistance and nutrition advice turned things around. Today, he grows enough vegetables to keep himself healthy and earn an income on the local market. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 26, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Medical Librarians Month – Making a Difference in Swaziland
Janet Schnall’s experience as an Invited Lecturer to a newly open nursing school in Swaziland and a return trip to teach students and faculty preparing to open a medical school is next in our stories about librarians making a difference.
By Janet Schnall, MS, AHIP
Information Management Librarian
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Have I as a librarian changed lives? I believe YES!
Last year as University of Washington Health Sciences Library liaison to the UW School of Nursing I received an email from a former UW PhD nursing student, Gloria Nam, whom I had previously assisted with her dissertation, asking for b...
Source: Dragonfly - November 22, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Funding News from Network Members News From NN/LM PNR Source Type: news
2014 Medical Librarians Month – Making a Difference in Swaziland
Janet Schnall’s experience as an Invited Lecturer to a newly open nursing school in Swaziland and a return trip to teach students and faculty preparing to open a medical school is next in our stories about librarians making a difference.
By Janet Schnall, MS, AHIP
Information Management Librarian
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Have I as a librarian changed lives? I believe YES!
Last year as University of Washington Health Sciences Library liaison to the UW School of Nursing I received an email from a former UW PhD nursing student, Gloria Nam, whom I had previously assisted with her dissertation, asking for b...
Source: Dragonfly - November 22, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Funding News from Network Members News From NN/LM PNR Source Type: news
The Young, Female Face of HIV in East and Southern Africa
Gender inequalities explain why prevention is failing to contain HIV infection among young women in East and Southern Africa. UNAIDS calls for a major effort to reduce their risk of infection. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPSBy Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Nov 7 2014 (IPS)Experts are raising alarm that years of HIV interventions throughout Africa have failed to stop infection among young women 15 to 24 years old.“Prevention is failing for young women,” says Lillian Mworeko, HIV expert with International Community of Women Living with HIV in Eastern Africa, based in Uganda.Among women in East and Southern Africa, four out of te...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 7, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miriam Gathigah Tags: Africa Aid Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Population Projects Regional Categories Women's Health Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation International Community of Women Source Type: news
South African 'Mentor Mothers' lower HIV infection rates among pregnant women
The incidence of HIV infection in South Africa tops that of any nation in the world, with some 6 million of the country’s nearly 50 million residents infected. Sadly, young women — and particularly young pregnant women — suffer some of the highest rates of HIV infection. More than one-fourth of pregnant South African women are infected with the virus; in some communities, the infection rates are even higher.
But those infection rates might be reduced — and the overall health of children improved — through community-based peer counseling programs, according to a new study conducted by UCLA’s Mary Jane Rotheram-B...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 24, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
South African ‘Mentor Mothers’ improve perinatal health outcomes
The incidence of HIV infection in South Africa tops that of any nation in the world, with some 6 million of the country’s nearly 50 million residents infected. Sadly, young women — and particularly young pregnant women — suffer some of the highest rates of HIV infection. More than one-fourth of pregnant South African women are infected with the virus; in some communities, the infection rates are even higher.
But a new study conducted by UCLA’s Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, the director of the UCLA Global Center for Children and Families at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and her colleagues from...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 23, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Writing the Final Chapter on AIDS
Testing, treating and suppressing viral load in massive numbers could curb the spread of AIDS by 2020. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPSBy Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Oct 17 2014 (IPS)Although AIDS has defied science by killing millions of people throughout Africa in the last three decades, HIV experts now believe that they have found the magic numbers to end AIDS as a public health threat in 15 years.The magic numbers are 90-90-90 and are informed by growing clinical evidence showing that HIV treatment equals prevention because putting people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces new infections.The new treatment targets seek t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 17, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miriam Gathigah Tags: Africa Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations AIDS Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Joint Uni Source Type: news
Swaziland: Hunger Increases in Swaziland
[Swazi Media]More than three in ten people in Swaziland are undernourished, a new report reveals. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 16, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
