That women and girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS is well established, but a new report reveals how little we know about what countries are doing, or not doing, to address their vulnerability.

South Africa has secured an additional $108 million from the Global Fund to finance its HIV prevention projects over the next five years.

Every November 19, the world celebrates the World Toilet Day (WTD) as it is a day set aside to inform governments all over the world of the dangers that the sanitation sector is witnessing.

THE National Medical Stores has discovered over 100 non-existent health centres that have for years received drugs and funding from the Government.

FIRST Lady Thandiwe Banda has said that Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS is the surest way of saving humanity from extinction.

A group of Tanzanian Members of Parliament has commended the ongoing efforts in the fight against HIV/Aids, saying that Rwanda is a country that offers unique solutions aimed at controlling the scourge.

A HIV testing drive is on to fight Aids in which more than one million Kenyans are expected to get tested for HIV during a national campaign launched on Monday.

New data in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update shows HIV infections in the world have reduced by 17 percent over the past eight years.

In the build up towards World AIDS Day, the North West Health and Social Development Department will be taking its HIV and AIDS awareness campaign to farming communities.

Methodist Mission Agricultural Programme (MMAP) and Njawara Agricultural Training Centre (NATC) recently held series of sensitisation meetings in the North Bank on health and hygiene for disaster victims and communities at large, particularly on the signs and symptoms of cholera

The hospital where President Umaru Yar'adua is undergoing medical treatment is King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) located in the port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

HIV positive mothers on antiretroviral drug can exclusively breast feed their babies for a period of six months without passing the virus to the children, the Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Professor John Idoko

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Galaxy Backbone to enhance effective communication with all its centres.

President Umaru Yar'adua is not in a severe health condition as being rumoured and he is getting better after being attended to by doctors in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria's ambassador to the Kingdom Abdullahi Garba Aminci told Daily Trust yesterday.

The Federal Government yesterday approved the implementation of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) for all medical workers ending the alleged discrepancies in the payment of salaries.

One case of swine flu (H1N1) was recently recorded in Nigeria when the Federal Ministry of Health announced that a 9-year old American girl residing in Lagos was infected with it. A statement signed by the ministry revealed that the

Members of the HIV/AIDS community group of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Taraba State have organised an HIV/AIDS sensitisation campaign for people in Kona community in Jalingo Local government of Taraba state.

There was anxiety yesterday over the state of health of President Umaru Yar'Adua who is currently undergoing medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.

The hit television programme; "Big Brother Africa Revolution" and African private sector companies are supporting the Global Fund's fight against malaria by contributing funds from a high-profile awareness raising campaign, undertaken as part of the United Against Malaria campaign.

Senate yesterday insisted that there was nothing yet in the health of President Umaru Yar'Adua that suggests that he has become incapacitated to perform his official functions.