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Volume 1, Number 23
10 September 2001
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICY
Zimbabwe: New Sex Law to Curb HIV/AIDS
Chilean Health Ministry Approves Distribution of EC Despite Supreme Court Ban
Israel Bans Imports of Fertilised Ova
Kenya: Policy on Condoms is Defended
Zimbabwe: Health Minister Rules Out Compulsory HIV/AIDS Tests
Botswana: Government to Test Students for HIV/AIDS
FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Oral Contraceptive Use and Hormone Replacement Therapy Are Associated With Microalbuminuria
IDS Expert Challenges Ethical Stance on Drug Trials
FAMILY PLANNING/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
US: Condom Use Up, HIV Down in 1990s
Brazil Targets Older People in Anti-AIDS Program
India: Turn Off Sex and Turn on TV?
Sierra Leone: Use of Condom is Evil
HIV/AIDS
AIDS Researchers Upbeat About Vaccine Prospects
Uganda: Two More AIDS Vaccines to be Tried
HIV/AIDS Rates Declining in Uganda
Central African Republic: AIDS Leading Cause of Death for Teachers
Kenya: 250 HIV/AIDS Testing Centres to be Opened Soon
CDC Expresses Alarm at Chinese Epidemic
Nigeria: Programme to Supply AIDS Drugs Delayed
Ghana: Government Plans to Manufacture HIV/AIDS Medicine
Common, Harmless Virus Helps Patients, Researchers Say
Kagame, Researchers, Others Discuss Vaccines in Philadelphia
Nigerians Sue Pfizer Over Trials
Roche, Brazil Reach AIDS Drug Price Agreement
AIDS Could Orphan Third of Africa's Children
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
Ghana: Abortion is Leading Cause of Death in Accra
Folic Acid Does Not Increase Risk of Miscarriage, Study Says
Women Who Give Birth Twice Before Age 20 at Higher Risk for Some Complications
POPULATION
2001 World Population Data Sheet Now Online
Aging Populations Tax World Economy
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Contraceptive May Reduce Symptoms of Severe PMS
Partner Violence Tied to HIV for African Women
HPV Variant Linked to Higher Rates of Cervical Cancer in Mexican Women
Women Using Hormonal Contraceptives at Increased Risk for Certain STDs, Decreased Risk for Others
Much Work Still Needed to Protect Senegalese Women
YOUTH
Safe Sex Message Fails to Get Through to Young People
PROFILES/SPECIAL REPORTS
POPLINE® Database Now Available Online
Botswana:
Interview With National AIDS Coordinator
Botswana has one of the world's highest percentages
of people living with HIV/AIDS. Latest figures from
UNAIDS suggest more than 35 percent of Botswana's
adult population carry the virus. Stigma and denial
remain huge impediments to fighting the disease. A
recent government report found that many Batswana
still believe that HIV/AIDS was a foreign disease,
which is not in Botswana or is only found in urban
areas. Young people can be overheard in Gaborone bars
joking that AIDS stands for American Initiative to
Discourage Sex. Others even brand self-confessed people
living with AIDS as liars, while the other tendency
is to hide those who die of HIV/AIDS by claiming that
they were killed by other diseases. Head of the National
AIDS Coordinating Group (NACG), Babu Khan, spoke to
IRIN about the challenges associated with tackling
the epidemic.
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