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UGANDA: Overcrowded prisons heighten TB risk - (Found July 23, 2008 )

KAMPALA, 4 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Dr Michael Kyomya is responsible for the health of almost 5,000 inmates in Uganda's Luzira Prison, but his caseload is not the biggest challenge - the architecture is. The high walls just outside his office in the prison's medical facility not only keep the prisoners in, but also infectious diseases like tuberculosis (TB).
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79104

MOZAMBIQUE: Attitudes to HIV are changing in jail - (Found July 23, 2008 )

CHIMOIO, 11 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Sex between prison inmates is a reality at Manica Provincial Prison, in central Mozambique, but because same-sex relations are taboo, and conjugal visits are not allowed, many HIV-positive inmates say they were infected before they were sent to the largest prison in Manica Province.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79209

ISRAEL-OPT: Low infection rates but condoms still needed - (Found July 23, 2008 )

JERUSALEM, 10 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - In spite of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials said they were still allowing condoms into the enclave as part of efforts by UN agencies and Palestinian organisations to keep family planning and disease prevention programmes going.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79187

UGANDA: Aleng Almarina: "If the drugs run out, my condition will worsen" - (Found July 23, 2008 )

KITGUM, 10 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Aleng Almarina, 53, is one of several thousand internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have returned to their villages after years in camps across northern Uganda, where a 20-year conflict between the government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army forced up to two million people to flee their homes. She told IRINPlusNews of her struggle to access life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) medication.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79186

KENYA: Post-violence sex work boom - (Found July 23, 2008 )

MOMBASA, 9 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Like thousands of other Kenyans, Susan Wairimu, 17, was displaced from her home in the Rift Valley Province's Molo district during the violence that followed a disputed presidential election in December 2007 and sought shelter in the nearby town of Nakuru.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79166

ZAMBIA: Wanted - more people for HIV testing - (Found July 23, 2008 )

LUSAKA, 9 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - The drugs to manage HIV are available, and so is knowledge about how to prevent it, but far too few people in Zambia are coming forward to be tested.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79165

GLOBAL: AIDS spending breaks records, but needs more focus - (Found July 23, 2008 )

NAIROBI, 8 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - HIVAIDS funding to low- and middle-income countries reached a record level in 2007, according to a new report by UNAIDS.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79150

ISRAEL: More awareness needed as HIV infection rises - (Found July 23, 2008 )

TEL AVIV, 7 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - HIV may be a relatively small problem in Israel, but the soaring rate of new infections among vulnerable populations has forced health officials to take action.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79129

HAITI: High risk and underground - (Found July 23, 2008 )

JOHANNESBURG, 7 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - If you inject heroin, you probably know about the risk of becoming infected with Hepatitis C or HIV, but if you're one of the thousands across the world who visit informal healers for a jab of vitamin B you may be getting more than a shot of vitamins and not even know it.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79128

UGANDA: Joanna: "Dating is hectic, so I put a personal ad in the paper" - (Found July 23, 2008 )

KAMPALA, 7 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Joanna, 25, an HIV-positive schoolteacher who lives in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, decided to take a chance on love by putting a personal advertisement in the newspaper. She spoke to IRINPlusNews before her first date with a man who responded.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79125