The best place to gauge the extent of China's growing role in Angola is at the Quatro de Fevereiro airport in the capital, Luanda, where crowds of Chinese wait their turn to have their passports stamped. The lack of HIV prevention campaigns for Chinese workers in Angola is remarkable, considering how far away they are from their families, the length of time they spend away from home, and the extra cash they have left at the end of the month.

The Cambodian government's crackdown on human trafficking and sexual exploitation could reverse the progress made in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, as sex workers fleeing the police have been unable to access health services.

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Adjusting to college life can be rough – moving into residence, living with roommates, balancing academic demands with those of social life. Now try taking your antiretroviral (ARV) medication without the whole world knowing you're positive, and things get even more complicated. Treatment adherence, proper nutrition and treating opportunistic infections are all problematic in the campus environment.

Many girls and women have resorted to sex work to earn a living because they were orphaned or unable to complete their schooling as a result of the two-decade war between the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government. Attempts to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict have stalled and the region operates in post-emergency mode, with people displaced by the conflict returning home and life slowly returning to a semblance of normality.

Prevention must remain a top priority in the continued fight against HIV and AIDS and, as this report shows, both condoms and contraceptives count as key components of comprehensive HIV prevention. In 2007, new HIV infections out-numbered persons receiving treatment by nearly 3 to 1. More than 6,800 people become infected with HIV every day. Because most HIV epidemics are fueled by sexual transmission of the virus, behavior change, including condom use, is critical to stemming the number of new more...

In 2007, southern Sudan received US$28.5 million from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis when a roadmap for containing the epidemic was drawn up, but little progress has been made. This report looks at some of the issues post-conflict southern Sudan continues to struggle with.

Several prominent demographers and scientists have vigorously refuted Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's claim that South Africa's HIV epidemic is declining and that the country 'may be making some real progress in its response to the HIV epidemic'. Tshabalala-Msimang's statement was based on a national survey of HIV prevalence among pregnant women, which researchers are describing as deeply flawed.

The article documents the experience of one impoverished community and its first clinic, housed in a shipping container. The community and those who organised the clinic speak out about how HIV/AIDS continues to affect the small community of Freedom Park.

'ALISON, a free learning portal on the Web providing courseware in various fields, Health Literacy among them. ALISON has just launched a free course provided to us by the TeachAIDS organization.'