A quarter of a century after HIV/AIDS first emerged, the disease continues to wreak havoc in many parts of the world. Initially, one of the hardest hit countries was Thailand. […]
HIV/AIDS
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Dutchman Billy Barnaart is a physiotherapist, who specialises in working with the mentally disabled. After working for ten years in a centre in The Netherlands, he got an opportunity to […]
In Africa, 7 million people have AIDS, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. 11 million more Africans have the HIV virus which causes the disease. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 65% of […]
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the early 1980s, one of the hardest hit countries was Uganda. By the early 1990s, over 18% of the population was infected with HIV, […]
Neville Powis visits the region near Chiang Mai, in the northeast of Thailand, near the border with Burma and Vietnam. AIDS began to spread 15 years ago and now an […]
HIV/AIDS remains the number one killer in all countries of southern Africa. The one exception is Angola. Paradoxically, a quarter of a century of war largely protected Angolans from the […]
Joep Lange: President Elect of the AIDS Conference in Barcelona and professor of medicine at the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands Jaap Goudsmit: Professor in poverty-related communicable diseases at the […]
With President Mbeki publicly rejecting the idea that AIDS is caused by a virus, treating people with HIV/AIDS has become even more difficult. Eric Beauchemin talks to members of the […]
13 million children in Africa have lost their mother or father or both parents to AIDS. In South Africa alone, 5 million people are infected with the HIV virus. KwaZulu […]