Jammeh’s ‘HIV/AIDS treatment was a lie’

Survivors call for the withdrawal of medical licences of two doctors

 

Yahya Jammeh prays while administering his alleged herbal HIV cure to a patient at the State House in Banjul. Photo | AP | 2007

Deadlier Than Ebola

Survey finds HIV/AIDS, diarrhoe and malaria kill more Africans than the Ebola virus

Latest World Bank (WB) figures show almost 1.2 million Africans died as a result of HIV/AIDS in 2012, according to a new survey. A team from Médecins Sans Frontières arrived in Guinea at the beginning of the Ebola outbreak (Photo: Kjell Gunnar Beraas/MSF)

UNAIDS is ending operations in The Gambia

Local agencies, especially AIDS support societies in The Gambia (where an estimated 500 people still die of HIV/AIDS or related diseases every year) have been taken aback by this decision.

HIV/AIDS not a death sentence

World AIDS Day: African Union Commission launches Workplace Policy on HIV / AIDS

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 14, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As part of the activities marking the 2011 World Aids Day to be observed on 1st December, the Medical Services Directorate of the African Union Commission (AUC) will on 2nd December 2011, launch the AU Commission HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy. The launching ceremony will take place at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the presence of all AU staff.

 

The policy which is comprised in a booklet, has been developed in light of the commitments expressed by the Heads of State and Government in the 2001 Abuja Declaration on HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases (ORID), in which they declared AIDS “a State of Emergency in the Continent”, and other commitments made at the United Nations UNGASS, 2001, and through the Declaration on Employment and Poverty Alleviation in Africa (Ouagadougou, 2004), High-level Meeting 2006, by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).

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Truckers, others remain vulnerable to HIV infection

For years research has pointed to the fact that truck drivers and others transport workers remain disproportionately vulnerable to HIV infection.

This is largely due to transient and often solitary nature of their work, according to the 2008 UNAIDS Annual Report.

The Report, “Towards Universal Access”, highlighted that in 2008, the World Food Programme (WFP) embarked on an innovative initiative designed to ensure that transport personnel are made aware of the risk and the vulnerabilities of life on the road.

VICTORS NOT VICTIMS

Yes; it’s true that we have the virus, a deadly virus: that we know. We even detest that we are in. we do not focus on dying but we are now living with it. No matter what others say about us, we need not to make ourselves victims, we detest the term “AIDS VICTIMS”; which at times is used to describe us. But also we don’t make victims ourselves.

Victims are weak and powerless. A victim is passive. A victim is no longer responsible. We are not victims. We are powerful and force of change. We are reaching out to others like ourselves, and changing their lives. We are still able, advocating for rights, we are still our selves and responsible;

GAMNASS Exhorts Media to support AIDS victims in the fight against stigma and discrimination

The President of Gambia Network of AIDS Support Society, GAMNASS Fatima Gai has urged the Media to join their efforts in support of people living with HIV/AIDS against stigma and discrimination.

Speaking during the opening of a three-day training for Health Journalists on “Gender, Human Rights and HIV/ AIDS” at GAMNASS Office in Banjul, she said HIV/AIDS should be everyone’s business and the media has an important role to play in creating awareness and sensitization to change the perception and understanding of the people on HIV/AIDS.

“The media should advocate for people to go for voluntary counseling and testing. The misconception or perception of people against the disease has brought a serious challenge to people who have chosen to disclosed there status,” she said.