prevention

The Zambia AIDS Research Foundation, in conjunction with Treatment Advocacy Literacy Campaign (TALC), is hosting an HIV/AIDS conference on 17 May 2013 in Lusaka, Zambia.
 
According to the organisers, the conference will focus on topics such as diet/nutrition for people living with HIV (PLWHA), foods to avoid and food myths, and scientific reasons for male circumcision.
 
To read the article titled, “Zambia to host 1-day world class conference on HIV/AIDS,” click here.

The United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development and mothers2mothers have launched a five-year regional partnership in Swaziland.
 
The partnership, which is the first of its kind in the region, is part of USAID's Southern Africa Regional HIV/AIDS Programme (RHAP) and is designed to strengthen country-led programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and eliminate pediatric AIDS in Southern and Eastern Africa, the regions hit hardest by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
 

My Village Organisation (MVO), a Malawian NGO, has launched a ‘Bring your Wife-PMTCT’ campaign that aim to engage men participation in the access and utilisation of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services.

Speaking during the launch at Bolero, the Tumbuka paramount chief called on men to accompany their pregnant spouses in order to get correct information on PMTCT and other antenatal services.

A United Nations (UN) report says that eradicating AIDS is in sight, owing to better access to drugs that can both treat and prevent the incurable human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the disease.

The report also states that an aim to eventually end the worldwide AIDS pandemic is not ‘merely visionary’ but ‘entirely feasible’.

Rights organisations, Equal Education (EE) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) say providing condoms to schools will not increase sexual activity.

In a joint statement, the two organisations also point out that, "Providing condoms in schools would not amount to encouraging children to break the law."

They say it is arguable that the availability of condoms will help to confront young people with some of the gravity and consequences of sex, and thereby amount to the opposite of encouragement.