Senegal:
Charity head sacked
The Senegalese President Aboulaye Wade has dismissed Latif Gueye
on national TV from his position as head of the charity ‘Africa
helps Africa,’ over an alleged smuggling of anti-HIV drugs.
As exposed in the last edition of Positive Nation, the scandal involved
the re-selling of cheap drugs en route to Africa back into the lucrative
European market at full price. Over $18 million of reduced priced
anti-HIV drugs, meant for Africa, ended up being illegally sold
back to the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and the UK.
WHO: Unsafe sex ‘is second top
health risk’
A report by the World Health Authority (WHO) has identified the
top 10 preventable risks to health worldwide. Top of the list is
low weight children and mothers, second is unsafe sex, followed
by high blood pressure, tobacco, alcohol, unsafe water, poor sanitation
and hygiene, cholesterol, indoor smoke from solid fuels, iron deficiency
and obesity. The WHO said that together they account for about 40
per cent of the 56 million deaths that occur across the world each
year.
China’s students think mosquitoes
spread Aids
Two thirds of secondary school students surveyed by the Xinbao newspaper
in Beijing said they did not know that mosquitoes do not transmit
HIV and half were unaware that proper use of condoms can reduce
the risk of contracting the disease. The study also found that 40
per cent did not know that HIV can be spread by homosexual intercourse
and three quarters did not know that those with HIV might not show
obvious signs.
Activists storm Uganda Aids conference
A small group of demonstrators burst into last month’s Uganda
National Aids Conference last month in Kampala, waved placards and
burst into song chorusing ‘We are the ones we are the people.
We are ones to defeat HIV and Aids’. Agnes Nyamayarwo lashed
out at thieves who stole anti-HIV drugs |
