Washington Blade - May 23, 2008 http://www.aegis.org/news/wb/2008/WB080505.html An HIV-positive gay man is alleging discrimination and wrongful termination against the company that owns TGI Frid ...

Business Wire - May 22, 2008 http://www.aegis.org/news/bw/2008/BW080531.htmlALEXANDRIA, Va.--Black state board of education leaders from across the nation will meet to st ...

Associated Press - May 23, 2008 http://www.aegis.org/news/ap/2008/AP080547.htmlKISUMU, Kenya: Sitting underneath the bright murals at a clinic, ...

CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News UpdateFor Friday, May 23, 2008 The CDC National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention provides the following information as a public service only. Providing synopses of key scientific articles and lay media reports on HIV/AIDS,

Development: U.S. Might Just Choke the WHO Inter Press Service - May 21, 2008Aileen Kwahttp://www.aegis.org/news/ips/2008/IP080505.htmlGENEVA, May 21 (IPS) - As the 61st annual World Health Assembly gathers in Geneva this we ...

Agenda Item 11.9 - Health of MigrantsGeneva, 21 May 2008UNAIDS - May 21, 2008http://www.aegis.org/news/unaids/2008/UN080510.html[/ ...

Washington Blade - May 23, 2008 Chris Johnson http://www.aegis.org/news/wb/2008/WB080506.html The Sexual Minority You ...

High energy prices seem to powerfully concentrate lots of minds. After banning nuclear power for a couple of decades Italy has had a change of heart. ROME — Italy announced...

Government officials have grounded the quit-smoking drug Chantix for pilots and truckers.

THE Zimbabwe Business Council plans to create provincial steering committees with members from the business community to strengthen the response of the private sector to HIV/AIDS, ZBC Executive Director David Mutambara said earlier this week.

Female landmine survivors in the north have complained that their husbands have abandoned them.

KAMPALA Pharmaceutical Industries (KPI) has embarked on a countrywide promotion of formin, a diabetes drug, it started manufacturing in March.

Karamoja is experiencing a humanitarian emergency but not famine as claimed by local leaders, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

GOAT meat exports mainly to the Middle East, are threatened by the increased prevalence of diseases, a study has revealed.

Western Cape teacher unions have no plans to hand out condoms to pupils. Instead, they say, they are encouraging teachers to advocate abstinence.

AIDS Service Organisations and other stakeholders in the health sector have called on Government to review its policies on HIV and Aids interventions to integrate Tuberculosis programmes.

The health department's plans to replace the inefficient Medicines Control Council with a new regulatory authority could backfire if the proposals contained in the Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill were implemented, pharmaceutical manufacturers have warned.

UZUMBA Maramba Pfungwe District continues to record high incidents of sexual transmitted infections despite the distribution of condoms, the district HIV and Aids co-ordinator has said.

Nigeria Army yesterday in Kaduna disbursed N50,000 each as micro-credit facility to about 100 of its personnel who have tested positive to HIV/AIDS so that they can commence some income generating activities.

Having identified lack of drugs as one of the major problems confronting health care delivery in Nigeria, an international non-governmental organisation, 'Health Community Projects' in collaboration with the health and human services secretariat, has donated drugs worth N300 million to