Corporate Nigeria to Confer with Global Fund in Tackling AIDS, TB and Malaria

Beyond the stereotype model of the private sector providing cash to support public-minded initiatives, innovative approaches have been developing that extend the role of businesses to a whole new level of participation, involvement and partnership. Examining this emerging paradigm forms the crux of a high-level engagement meeting with the top echelon of Nigeria’s business community taking place in Lagos next week...Read full story
 

Visa Process Concluded for Nigerian Delegation to Austria AIDS Conference

After relevant documents submissions and interviews, the Nigerian delegation to the 18th International AIDS Conference has finally concluded the process for obtaining Austrian visa and currently awaiting notice from the embassy to collect the visas...Read full story
 

National HIV/AIDS Research Agenda Validation Meeting Gets Underway

The National HIV/AIDS Research Agenda Validation workshop has commenced today 16th June 2010 at the Vines Hotel, Abuja. The workshop objectives are to validate and finalise the HIV/AIDS research agenda and to review stakeholders’ HIV/AIDS research activities...Read full story
 

CDC Global Director Pays Courtesy Visit to NACA

The Global Director of Center for Disease Control (CDC) Dr. Tom Freiden and his entourage were in NACA to pay a courtesy call on the Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Professor John Idoko at the Agency’s conference hall....Read full story
 

HIV/AIDS and South Africa 2010 World Cup

The first world cup in Africa - South Africa 2010 -  will be starting in the next few hours from now and one very important issue in enlightened minds is the high prevalence rate of  HIV/AIDS in this part of Africa. An estimated 5.7 million people were said to be living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa in 2009, more than in any other country. The government of South Africa is however committed to the fight against HIV/AIDS as it has launched a major counseling and testing campaign (HCT) aimed at reducing the prevalence rate by 50% by June 2011....Read full story
 

Hepatitis and HIV Co-infection Take Centre Stage 

The 6th International Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis co-infection held at the Hilton Hotel Tel Aviv, Israel from the 31st May to June 2nd 2010.  The workshop was organized by Virology Education and sponsored by pharmaceutical companies including GILEAD, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) and Erasmus MC.....Read full story
 

Is “Combination Prevention” Our Way Out?

Prevention is an outcome, not a programme. It is a mix or combination of programmes and policy actions which are structural, biomedical and behavioural. Combination prevention therefore is coordinated to work synergistically on underlying risks and vulnerabilities. This was the view of Dr. Barbara de Zalduondo who represented UNAIDS at the 5th National Conference on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria that held 2nd to 5th May 2010.....Read full story
 

The Private Sector Can Close Universal Access Gaps

The private sector has been identified as a very important factor which could assist Nigeria in bridging the gap in achieving universal access to HIV/AIDS services by 2015. This was stressed in a session sponsored by CHEVRON Nigeria with the theme “Private Sector Health Investment, Leveraging Resources for Sustainable Health Care”....Read full story