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
Swaziland: For a Stigma-Free Generation
[Gender Links]Mbabane -Thembi Manana of Mandlangempisi in the Hhohho region has been living with HIV for ten years. Every day she takes a positive step towards life, never defaulting on her antiretroviral treatment. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 3, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: Cars Come Before Dying Children
[Swazi Media]Just months after the Swaziland Government said it could not afford to buy life-saving drugs to prevent Swazi children dying from diarrhoea, it has spent US$1.7 million on top of the range BMW cars for itself. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 29, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: Bangladesh Without Borders - Reducing the Burden of HIV and Tuberculosis in Swaziland
[MSF]Arif Uddin Kazi was born near the Sundarbans, a mangrove forest almost the size of the small African country where he currently works. In Swaziland, every year this medical doctor treats hundreds of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis patients in a clinic run by the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - September 5, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: Poor Sanitation, Poverty Behind Diarrhoea Outbreak
[IRIN]Mbabane -A nationwide outbreak of diarrhoea attributed to rotavirus has claimed the lives of nearly 40 young children in Swaziland during the past month and highlighted the need for better sanitation and clean water in schools and homes. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 4, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
New partnership to improve access to essential pain medications for people living with HIV
(Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation) Today the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and the American Cancer Society announced a new partnership to improve access to essential pain medications for people living with HIV in Swaziland. As part of ACS' Treat the Pain initiative, this new partnership will help improve efforts to better integrate pain management into HIV/AIDS services throughout the country. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - July 29, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Surviving Drug-Resistant TB in Swaziland
Thirty-five-year-old Khanyi proudly holds her certificate, which reads “I got tested and cured of TB." A mother of two, Khanyi lives in Logoba, an overcrowded informal settlement in central Swaziland near the industrial town of Matsapha.
Three years ago, while taking care of her diabetic husband, who is also co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis (TB), Khanyi was herself diagnosed with TB. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - July 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news
Swaziland: Surviving Drug-Resistant TB: "I'm Still Over the Moon"
[MSF]Ninety-nine patients in Swaziland who successfully completed their treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis have been presented with certificates by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) saying "I got tested and cured of TB". (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 24, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
TB in Swaziland: Share in My Solitude
Photographs by Krisanne Johnson. Happiness Dlamini is an MSF patient on treatment for multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Swaziland. The treatment for MDR-TB requires taking less effective drugs with terrible side effects for up to two years. Happiness has 21 months of treatment remaining. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - July 9, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Web Intern Source Type: news
Swaziland: Can You Help Save the Life of a Promising Young Swazi Woman With Breast Cancer?
[MISA-Swaziland]MISA-Swaziland's e-Forum posts stories and statements from civil society groups and NGOs in promotion of media freedom, diversity, pluralism, and access to information. The e-Forum also encourages individuals and groups to reply and respond to stories or statements that appear on Forum. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 30, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Maternal Deaths Due to HIV a Grim Reality
According to an African proverb, “every woman who gives birth has one foot on her grave.” It is time to make this proverb a historical fact and not a present reality. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPSBy Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Jun 27 2014 (IPS) An African proverb says that every woman who gives birth has one foot on her grave.
Sadly, this is still true today, especially within the context of the AIDS epidemic.
In spite of the huge advances in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in Africa, experts are concerned that these have not matched other pillars needed to eliminate maternal mortality caused...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 27, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miriam Gathigah Tags: Africa Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories Women's Health Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Maternal and Child Health Source Type: news
ARV Shortages Hit Mozambique’s HIV Treatment Programme
Chronic shortages of antiretroviral drugs endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of HIV positive Mozambicans. Courtesy: Amos ZacariasBy Amos ZacariasMAPUTO, Jun 19 2014 (IPS) Chronic shortages of antiretrovirals across Mozambique are endangering the health and the lives of tens of thousands of HIV positive people on treatment.
Some 454,000 people are on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, or just under one-third of the 1.6 million Mozambicans living with HIV in 2013, according to government figures.
“Our patients complain they are not receiving the complete dosage of medicines,” says Judite de Jesus Mutote, president ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 19, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Amos Zacarias Tags: Africa Aid Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Population Projects Regional Categories Women's Health Mozambique Option B United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Source Type: news
Swaziland: Marriage a Barrier to ARVs for Women
[IPS]Mbabane -For months, Nonkululeko Msibi could not find her voice each time she wanted to share the news to her husband. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - June 6, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
