Global AIDS - Nigeria

Links

An excellent new UNAIDS resource established

A global program aimed at improving the reproductive health and the prevention of HIV/AIDS among young people 10 to 24 years old. It's employed the energy, insight, and experience of parents, schoolteachers, employers, policymakers, the media, health professionals, non-government agencies, religious and community leaders, and other youth networks.

It's in English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic.

Biology of AIDS

The World Edition of BBC News is carrying a superb series on the biology of AIDS covering the Hiv virus, Infection, Early Stages and as AIDS Develops.

www.avert.org/aafrica.htm

For further information concerning HIV/AIDS in Botswana

AF-AIDS

An excellent AFRICA AIDS resource

www.irinnews.org/AIDSfp.asp

IRIN PlusNews is a special HIV/AIDS information service of the United Nations Office for the co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, specialising in Africa and Asia.

Circumcision, condoms and lemon juice - February, 2004

“In Press, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 2004”
The HIV/AIDS Pandemic: New Ways of Preventing Infection in Men - Professor R. V. Short FAA, FRS

Highlights of Special Report by Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy, HIV/AIDS in Africa

To Retroviruses Conference, San Francisco - Feb 8, 2004

A special cause for Rotary International? - January, 2004

A dramatically moving invitation is being offered to Rotary International to take up the battle against global HIV/AIDS as its next special cause following on its magnificent efforts to beat world polio.

The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated and AIDS Information Services fully endorses the invitation.

You can read the invitation by clicking here.

HIV/AIDS in Nigeria Today

HIV Population - 3,897,583
New AIDS cases - 13,621
AIDS Deaths this year - 11,480
(Estimates Updated daily based on the 2001 National HIV/syphilis Seroprevalence Survey conducted by the Federal Ministry of Health)

For further information on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and the West African sub-region visit nigeria-aids.org

Lime Use and Reproductive Health in Northern Nigeria: A Feasibility Study
Executive Summary - 02/03/2004 -
(Draft: Not to be Quoted Or Cited without Permission Of the Authors)

This study was conducted in the northern Nigerian cities of Maiduguri, Kano and Abuja to explore the use of limes with sex.