List/Grid Tag Archives: HIV/Aids
Government grapples with counterfeit ARVs
Source: IRIN NAIROBI, 19 October 2011 (PlusNews) – Kenya’s government is scrambling to remove thousands of batches of counterfeit antiretrovirals (ARVs) from circulation after patients and health workers reported irregularities…
More women speak up on HIV/AIDS issues
Source: coastweek SPECIAL REPORT BY XINHUA CORRESPONDENT Peter Mutai NAIROBI (Xinhua) — The United Nations on Wednesday challenged Kenyan women leaders to come up with strategies to help address the…
How I gradually accepted my HIV status
Source: Capital FM By CATHERINE KARONGO on October 14, 2011 When Minneh Kamau Bushby left for Canada in 1996 to attend a two-week HIV/AIDS conference, she had another mission in…
Kenya Medical Research Institute In ‘Final Stages’ of Development Herpes Drug
Source:http://www.freedominspeech.org/ Written by Admin Courtesy Behind the Mask Wednesday, 12 October 2011 10:02 Scientists at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kemri, say they are in the final stages of testing…
Health Ministry Now Adopts Routine HIV Testing
Source: Coastweek SPECIAL REPORT BY XINHUA CORRESPONDENT BEDAH MENGO Kenya is among countries in the developing world that is changing tact in its fight against HIV/AIDS NAIROBI (Xinhua) — As…
Hormonal Contraception May Double HIV/AIDS Risk
Source: Voice Of America A new study finds that the use of a hormonal contraceptive popular with women in eastern and southern Africa doubles their risk of becoming infected with…
UW researcher gets big grant to continue global tobacco-control project
Source: The Record By Johanna Weidner, Record staff Wed Oct 05 2011 WATERLOO — A University of Waterloo researcher received a $7.4-million grant, the largest of its kind awarded by…
KENYA: NCDs and HIV fight for limited resources
Source: IRIN NAIROBI, 20 September 2011 (PlusNews) – The crowd of health issues jostling for a share of Kenya’s inadequate health budget is expanding, with activists calling for an increase…
Let us support fever test initiative to save our children from needless death
Source: Daily Nation By WILLIS S. AKHWALE Posted Sunday, September 18 2011 at 18:1 Each year, countless numbers of children in Kenya and across Africa are brought into clinics and…
Act to stem increase in top killer diseases
Source: Daily Nation 18th September 2011 This week the world meets in New York to discuss the rising threat of cancer, heart disease and stroke, lung disease and diabetes. The…
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