The price of hiding in the shadows: Black & Gay in America

In Black men in America: The Obama effect, a reader wondered why everytime the gay issue is raised in the black community, everybody can't wait until it's time for the next subject. It was brought to my attention...

Congress passed Ryan White Act: EMS played important role

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) advocates played an important role in last Friday's passing of The Ryan White Act HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009. " The reinstating of rapid notification for first...

Human rights groups blast Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009

Human rights groups blast Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of "aggravated homosexuality."  The draft Anti-Homosexuality Bill was...

Volunteer Abroad Tanzania Dar Es Salaam Arusha Children Orphans

http://www.abroaderview.org Our programs allow you to take part in meaningful community service work, while discovering the people, sights, smells and tastes of Tanzania. Volunteering in Tanzania is a way to...

South Africa urged to give way for co-treatment TB and HIV

By Miriam Mannak / for Inter Press ServiceDespite repeated calls for integrated HIV and tuberculosis (TB) health services from medical experts and AIDS activists, most of South Africa’s public health facilities...

Volunteer Abroad Zambia Orphanages Volunteering abroaderview.org

Our programs in Lusaka and the surrounding towns allow you to take part in meaningful community service work, while discovering the people, sights, smells and tastes of Zambia. Volunteering in Zambia is a way to...

Malawi's looming famine - Millions at risk

By Miriam Mannak While Zimbabwe has fallen victim to a cholera outbreak of note and Mozambicans are fleeing the floods, another crisis looms in Southern Africa. It is an old, forgotten and silent crisis – which...

S-Africa Province Denies Aids Patients Meds Due to Money Issues

Due to financial constraints within the provincial health department of the Free State - one of South Africa's nine provinces - new Aids patients will be refused anti-retroviral treatment.Four the next four...

Blunder in South African health dept costs Aids NGOs dearly

As a result of mismanagement within the South African Health Department, thirteen HIV/Aids organisations have been left severely underfunded. Some of them are even forced to retrench staff and stop some of their...

World Aids Day - One minute of silence

Not too long ago, I overheard a conversation. Two people were chatting about Aids, and about the attention the disease receives from the media."It seems they can't talk about nothing else then HIV and Aids. I...

South Africa struggles with condom shortages

South Africa, one of the countries hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, is struggling with a severe shortage of condoms. In a press release the Treatment Action Campaign, one of South Africa's largest Aids lobby...

Jacob Zuma: The exception to the rule

According to ANC-president Jacob Zuma South Africa could beat the HIV/Aids epidemic within the next decade if there was a united effort. He also said the stigma around Aids should be "destroyed". These noble...

South Africa's fight against HIV/Aids: Changing tides

With World Aids Day being around the corner, the South African government led by interim president Kgalema Mothlante, has called onto South Africans to actively participate in raising awareness about HIV/Aids. ...