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UGANDA: Poverty driving child sex abuse in the north - (Found July 23, 2008 )

GULU, 21 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Acute poverty is forcing girls as young as 14 into early marriage and sex work in parts of northern Uganda affected by the war, says a new report by local NGOs.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79359

GLOBAL: ARVs extending life, but not improving it - (Found July 23, 2008 )

NAIROBI, 18 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - HIV-positive people are living longer on antiretroviral (ARV) medication, but many of them remain poor and hungry, highlighting the need to create incomes for them, says a new report.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79328

GLOBAL: Is AIDS still an emergency - (Found July 23, 2008 )

JOHANNESBURG, 18 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - The rate of new HIV infections, which has fuelled the global HIVAIDS epidemic since the 1980s, has peaked throughout the world and is now declining.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79325

SWAZILAND: Pregnant women still struggle to prevent HIV - (Found July 23, 2008 )

MBABANE, 17 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - Larger numbers of pregnant women living with HIV in Swaziland can now access services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus, but activists and health officials say more emphasis should have been placed on quality rather than quantity.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79303

AFGHANISTAN: New campaign to tackle stigma and misconceptions - (Found July 23, 2008 )

KABUL, 23 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, and Constella Futures, a US-based research organisation, have been awarded contracts to implement Afghanistan's first major HIVAIDS projects in four cities, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) told IRINPlusNews.
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79370