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Malawi's Rapid Population Growth Blamed On Retrogressive Cultures, Beliefs

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Chiefs in Chitipa District say efforts to control Malawi's rapid population growth will not bear fruits unless cultural beliefs and practices that encourage families to have many children are refined or scraped off.
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Zimbabwe: UNAIDS, ILO to Launch HIV Initiative

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UNAIDS and the International Labour Organisation will launch a new global initiative to provide five million working women and men with voluntary and confidential HIV counselling and testing at the workplace by 2015.
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Ending Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission

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Imagine a world where no mother living with HIV will have to transmit the virus to her baby while giving birth. Just 10 years ago, this would have been considered an impossible goal. But, thankfully, with the incredible advances in HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention of mother-to-child transmission is real today and is helping the world take giant steps towards achieving an AIDS Free Generation. But still, 900 babies are born every day with HIV.
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Thousands still missing HIV treatment following CAR coup

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More than 15,000 people living with HIV in the Central African Republic (CAR) had their life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) treatment interrupted as a result of the instability before, during and after the 24 March coup by the Séléka rebel group. NGOs are now struggling to ensure these people resume their regimens to reduce the risk of illness, drug resistance and death.
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PEPFAR budget cuts cause anxiety

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Ten years ago, a shipping container was converted into Ethiopia’s first HIV treatment centre, in Addis Ababa, the capital. Created in response to a dramatic rise in new HIV infections and AIDS -related deaths, the centre offered the only hope for HIV-positive Ethiopians, who had to pay to access the life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy (ART). 
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