JOHANNESBURG, 15 January 2013 (PlusNews) – The only HIV vaccine trial to achieve moderate success took place four years ago, yet it continues to reveal new information about the virus and renew hopes for a future vaccine. In 2009, researchers released the findings of a six-year HIV vaccine study carried out in Thailand known as… Continue reading HIV/AIDS: Groundbreaking Vaccine Research Reveals More Clues about HIV
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ZIMBABWE: Still Struggling with Drug Shortages
HARARE, 11 January 2013 (PlusNews) – Chronic shortages of generic and antiretroviral drugs, stock-outs, high medication costs, and long distances to clinics are some of the hurdles people face in their quest to access essential medicines in Zimbabwe. At any given time, public health facilities in much of Zimbabwe have in stock only half of… Continue reading ZIMBABWE: Still Struggling with Drug Shortages
UN Official Welcomes Security Council Action in Efforts Against Conflict-related Sexual Violence in DR Congo
8 January 2013 – The United Nations official dealing with conflict-related sexual violence today welcomed the Security Council’s imposition of sanctions on two armed groups active in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) and 23 March Movement (M23). “The Security Council’s sanctions committee… Continue reading UN Official Welcomes Security Council Action in Efforts Against Conflict-related Sexual Violence in DR Congo
Election Observers Interim Report on Ghana Election Dec 2012
EISA ELECTION OBSERVER MISSION TO THE 7TH DECEMBER 2012 PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN GHANA INTERIM STATEMENT 1. Introduction Following an invitation by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana, the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) deployed a twenty five member Election Observer Mission to the 2012 Ghana Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. The… Continue reading Election Observers Interim Report on Ghana Election Dec 2012
Ghana Opposition NPP Alleges Vote Fraud in Close Election
Ghana’s opposition New Patriotic Party has accused the governing party of conspiring with Electoral Commission staff to fix Friday’s election. Opposition protesters were dispersed from outside the commission’s offices in Accra by police firing tear gas. The NPP said in a statement that the National Democratic Congress had stolen votes across the country. NDC candidate… Continue reading Ghana Opposition NPP Alleges Vote Fraud in Close Election
Two Die and Several Injured Rushing to Meet Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo
Two people dead and several others seriously injured Saturday following a motor riding display during the arrival of NPP’s presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo in Northern Regional capital Tamale. Hundreds of supporters of NPP in the Northern Region took to the streets of Tamale on their motorbikes and cars displaying skillfully as a way of welcoming… Continue reading Two Die and Several Injured Rushing to Meet Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo
Zimbabwean Members of Paliament to be Circumcised to Fight HIV
A group of Zimbabwean MPs is getting circumcised as part of a campaign to reduce HIV and Aids cases. A small makeshift clinic for carrying out the procedures was erected in Parliament House in the capital Harare. Blessing Chebundo, chairman of Zimbabwe Parliamentarians Against Aids, said his main objective was to inspire other citizens to… Continue reading Zimbabwean Members of Paliament to be Circumcised to Fight HIV
Former First Lady Konadu Rawlings Hints of Forming Own Party
Source: Al-Hajj It’s official and confirmed! -“I have reached a point of no return” Contrary to what her special aide and disgraced Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Kofi Adams is telling the world, your authoritative Al-Hajj can confirm that former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is surely forming a… Continue reading Former First Lady Konadu Rawlings Hints of Forming Own Party