Swaziland in Medical News

Unprecedented Scale-Up of Voluntary Male Circumcision Begins in Swaziland and Zambia

The Male Circumcision Partnership expands access to proven HIV prevention intervention WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a significant move from research on male circumcision to full-scale implementation, the Male Circumcision Partnership is launching a massive scale-up of ...

Men queue up for Circumcision In Swaziland To Prevent HIV/AIDS

There is a dramatic shift in attitudes toward circumcision in Swaziland, which has one of the world's // lowest rates of the practice and one of the highest HIV prevalence rates. Circumcision, once widely viewed as unmanly, it is making a sudden comeback in the country since the publication o...

Bush Administration Proposes End of Funding of Anti-AIDS Program in Swaziland

Swaziland will soon see an end to the funds that was provided by the US administration towards the anti HIV program through // subsidized circumcisions to men in Swaziland. According to the U.S. Agency for International Development it had only recently learned of the program and that it violated...

HIV/AIDS Program To Benefit Communities In Swaziland

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare’s Health Education Unit (HEU) in Swaziland has launched a unique HIV/AIDS prevention program for more than 40 communities in the country. // The campaign called 'STEPS for the Future' attempts to get the people thinking abut HIV AIDS through documenta...

Soaring Rates Of HIV Infection In Swaziland

The incidence of HIV/AIDS continues to soar in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, despite national and international efforts to curb the AIDS pandemic. //Out of the 5 million new HIV/AIDS infections recorded every year worldwide, nearly 3.2 million cases were in sub-Saharan Africa. This approxim...

High Demand For Circumcision In AIDS-Hit Swaziland

Circumcision makes it comeback in Swaziland, years after it was banned by a king who reigned during the 19th century// The religious practice was apparently banned as the king (King Mswati II) felt that men recovering from the surgical procedure were diverted from waging war. This situation h...

Family Prayer Candle Light Vigil for Life-Saving Rescue of 6-year-old 'Little Ambassador'

...arten little girl who in her short life has met with Former President Bush, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the Queen Mother of swaziland and the current Ambassadors to the USA from Zambia, Lesotho, Madagascar and Germany, has a life-threatening blood disorder which could be fatal if it ...

International Food Protection Training Institute to Deliver Inaugural Training Course to Food Safety Regulators

...ated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, swaziland and Zimbabwe. For further information on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, please visit the Foundation's website at www.wkkf.org . Inquiries ...

A Mother's Report Card: The Best - and Worst - Countries for Mothers

...r years of schooling versus a typical woman in Australia or New Zealand who receives over 20 years of formal education. On average, a girl born in swaziland will not live to see her 40th birthday. Compare that to the typical girl born in Japan who will live to be 86 years old. "These statistics go f...

Infectious Diseases Institute Appoints Alex Coutinho, M.D as Executive Director

...ICEF/MOH initiative coordinating an intensive HIV education campaign for schools in Kampala and Masaka, Uganda. From 1989-2001, Dr. Coutinho worked in swaziland pioneering HIV education and prevention programs at local and national levels. Dr. Coutinho has been a member of the interim board of the Global F...

Swaziland: AHF Partners in New Free AIDS Treatment Clinic in Manzini

...nd FLAS, PSI, the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of swaziland and the Manzini City Council in Partnership to Pro... Treatment Center MANZINI, swaziland and LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ ...ing anti-retroviral treatment -- in the Kingdom of swaziland at the LaMvelase Help Centre," said Bernard Okongo...

More then Four Million New HIV Infections in 2006: UNAIDS

...x and HIV remain low in many countries, as does perception of personal risk. Even in countries where the epidemic has very high impact, such as swaziland and South Africa, a large proportion of the population do not believe they are at risk of becoming infected. Source-IANS...

AIDS Campaign Enrages HIV Infected Swazis

... promiscuous,' said Vusi Matsebula, national executive co-ordinator for the swaziland National Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (SWANNEPHA). Around 40% of the adults in swaziland are infected with HIV. This campaign by the government-backed National Emer...

HIV Patients Opposes Patenting Of AIDS Drug

...l the Combivir used by MSF is generic. India, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Central African Republic, Malawi, Peru, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Ukraine and swaziland are other countries identified by the Global Fund for using generic Combivir. 'Decisions made by Indian patent offices are a question of life or...

Swaziland And Lesotho Sees Sharp Increase In AIDS/HIV Population

...l has said that the AIDS/HIV population has been consistently increasing in swaziland with nearly 43 percent of its population being infected, including more tha...n Lesotho stood roughly at 30 percent. HIV prevalence for pregnant women in swaziland stood at 56.3 percent. He said it would take those two countries a "g...

Phase II trails of new HIV vaccine to be held in South Africa

...s the highest caseload of HIV in the world, with about one in nine of its 45 million population carrying the virus, while in neighbouring Botswana and swaziland prevalence is as high as 40 percent. "We are pleased that South Africa has taken a leading role in the testing of vaccine candidates given the med...