Swaziland: Marriage a Barrier to ARV Treatment for Swazi 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: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 6, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Marriage a Barrier to ARV treatment for Swazi Women
This study has helped us understand why women are either dropping out or initiating ART late,” said Okello.
The 2013 Global Report of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that nine out of ten Swazis remain on ART after a year. But Okello said one dropout is one too many.
“We need to understand the barriers they encounter at social level so that we help them stay on treatment,” said Okello.
Dlamini recommends empowering married women with skills to negotiate access to ART, and researching how some women successfully navigate this tricky situation.
One such woman is Msibi, now 24, who is on tre...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 5, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mantoe Phakathi Tags: Africa Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Population Poverty & MDGs Regional Categories Women's Health ARVs Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Option B Swaziland Source Type: news
Viral Load Testing Dismally Absent in Africa
A CD4 testing machine. Research by the University of Zimbabwe shows that female patients with high CD4 counts have developed a nevirapine toxicity. Credit: Jennifer Mckellar/IPSBy Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, May 19 2014 (IPS) As Africa scales up lifesaving antiretroviral therapy for HIV positive people, concerns are rife that the absence of mass routine viral load testing will hamper extending treatment to the millions who need it.
“Routine viral load testing helps catch people who are failing on treatment before they generate resistance to antiretrovirals and helps keep them less infectious,” explains Teri Roberts, diagno...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 19, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miriam Gathigah Tags: Africa Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Population Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Global Fund to Fight AIDS Kenya PEPFAR Source Type: news
One More Pill to Take: Pregnancy, Malaria and HIV
Malaria has dreadful health consequences for HIV positive pregnant women and their babies. Sleeping under a net and taking antimalarial pills help HIV positive pregnant women have healthier babies. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPSBy Zarina GelooLUSAKA, Apr 25 2014 (IPS) Zambian Martha Nalishupe is torn between taking one more pill with her daily regimen of antiretrovirals, or run the risk of a miscarriage.
Struggling to adhere to her antiretroviral (ARVs) therapy, she now has to add a tablet to prevent malaria.
Though she only has to take the malaria pills three times, every four weeks, till she gives birth, Nalishupe is wear...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Zarina Geloo Tags: Africa Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Featured Gender Headlines Health Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Malaria United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Zambia Source Type: news
Namibia: Global Fund Meeting Ends Well
[New Era]Windhoek -Participants at the just ended southern and eastern Africa regional meeting on the Global Fund's new funding model have committed to 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, the Commores, Eritrea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, South Sudan and Swaziland met in Windhoek for four days la (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - April 14, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Thousands Receive Services On World Health Day
[SAnews.gov.za]More than 2 000 people living near the Swaziland and Mozambican borders received comprehensive government services on their doorstep as part of World Health Day. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 13, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Indianapolis teens travel to Swaziland in hopes of changing attitudes toward AIDS
An Indianapolis nonprofit called Saving Orphans through Healthcare Outreach teamed up with Crispus Attucks High School to send local students interested in medicine to Swaziland for two weeks to meet with teens there. Field producer Andrea Muraskin talks with students and teachers about their experiences and reactions on day-to-day life in Swaziland..... (Source: Sound Medicine)
Source: Sound Medicine - March 30, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sound Medicine Source Type: news
Indianapolis teenagers travel to the AIDS capital of the world
An Indianapolis nonprofit called Saving Orphans through Healthcare Outreach teamed up with Crispus Attucks High School to send local students interested in medicine to Swaziland for two weeks to meet with teens there. Field producer Andrea Muraskin talks with students and teachers about their experiences and reactions on day-to-day life in Swaziland..... (Source: Sound Medicine)
Source: Sound Medicine - March 30, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sound Medicine Source Type: news
Indianapolis teens travel to Swaziland in hopes of changing attitudes toward AIDS
An Indianapolis nonprofit called Saving Orphans through Healthcare Outreach teamed up with Crispus Attucks High School to send local students interested in medicine to Swaziland for two weeks to meet with teens there. Field producer Andrea Muraskin talks with students and teachers about their experiences and reactions on day-to-day life in Swaziland..... (Source: Sound Medicine)
Source: Sound Medicine - March 30, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sound Medicine Source Type: news
Southern Africa: Southern Africa Tackles TB in the Mining Sector
[World Bank]Johannesburg -The governments of Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland today signed a framework for the harmonized management of tuberculosis in the mining sector in a move that will help to track, refer and treat infected miners in a standardized manner across these countries. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 26, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: Dry Spell Upends Sunny Outlook On Food
[IRIN]Mbabane -A prolonged dry spell with scorching temperatures has undone an optimistic outlook for Swaziland's harvest of maize, the staple. Instead, experts are now predicting another round of scarcity and hand-outs in the perennially food-insecure country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 4, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Southern Africa: Zambia, Swaziland Develop Roadmap to Change Behavior in Response to HIV
[Key Publishers]Two southern Africa countries with high rates of HIV have developed advocacy roadmaps to ensure campaigns to change behavior are central to their countries' fight against AIDS. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - February 12, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: 'Starvation' to Hit Swaziland
[Swazi Media]People in rural Swaziland are about to die of hunger, a newspaper in the kingdom has reported. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 9, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zambia: Zambia and Swaziland Develop Advocacy Roadmap to Promote Behavior Change As Central to Global Fund Proposals
[GFO]Two southern Africa countries with high generalized HIV prevalance have developed an advocacy roadmap to ensure that behavior change communication campaigns are central to their countries' proposals for Global Fund grants. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 7, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
