US Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today gave excerpts of the following remarks during House floor debate of HR 5501 the "Tom
Thanks to a bipartisan compromise brokered by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), the House today voted overwhelmingly to expand the landmark U.S. effort to combat HIV/AIDS worldwide that, during the past five years, has saved millions of
Following is the floor statement of United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard L. Berman on the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5501) on
HIV/AIDS will continue to be the main challenges that the continent will have to grapple with in the second half of the century, the United Nations Economic Commission (UNECA) said ahead as it prepares to mark its 50th year of
Concerned stakeholders in the health sector are seeking greater transparency in all the activities involving the vital sector through enhanced monitoring and evaluation of various projects all over Nigeria; and improved collaboration between governments at all levels and the civil
A WOMAN who was last year convicted of having unprotected sex with her lover well knowing that she was HIV positive had her case postponed again to April 25 as the court awaits her lover's second HIV test results.
WHEN should sex education be introduced in schools? How much of it and in what form should it be delivered? This was the heated debate that remained unresolved by world population and reproductive health experts recently.
From all sides Nigeria is buffeted by human development, health and killer disease problems. Nigeria occupies the unenviable third position in the "league table" of countries with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
In recent times, advocacy for circumcision as one of the majors in the fight against HIV and AIDS, has taken root. For a country like Botswana, where traditional initiation long took a back seat, could circumcision be considered by some
ON march 14, Uganda commemorated 25 years of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, remembering the first identity case for the scourge reported in 1983 in Rakai district. In the early 1990s, the rate of the infected people reached emergency levels with more
