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Uganda votes under internet blackout and police crackdown
AFP, Published on 15/01/2026
» KAMPALA - Uganda was on edge as it headed for elections on Thursday, with President Yoweri Museveni expected to extend his 40-year rule amid an internet shutdown and a police crackdown on the opposition.
HIV workers race to plug funding gaps after Trump USAID cuts
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 03/04/2025
» JOHANNESBURG - Tarryn Lokotsch can see the US aid money she desperately needs to help South African rape survivors sitting in her organisation's bank account, but she cannot touch a cent of it.
Trump's aid freeze could cause millions more AIDS deaths: UN agency
AFP, Published on 17/02/2025
» ADDIS ABABA - President Donald Trump's decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the head of the UN's programme for the illness warned Sunday.
Military trial of Ugandan opposition leader to continue
AFP, Published on 01/02/2025
» KAMPALA - Uganda’s president condemned on Saturday a Supreme Court ruling that civilians cannot be tried in military court, while the army said it would continue court-martialling ex-presidential candidate Kizza Besigye.
Fight against Aids ‘needs more resources’
Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 23/07/2024
» MUNICH - World leaders have pledged to help end the Aids pandemic as a public health threat by 2030, but doing so will require more resources and better protection of human rights, says Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAIDS.
Sydney's former HIV epicentre close to ending transmission: research
AFP, Published on 24/07/2023
» PARIS - The Inner Sydney district, once the epicentre of Australia's HIV epidemic, is very close to becoming the first place in the world to reach the UN's target for ending transmission of the virus, researchers said on Monday.
AIDS timeline: Four decades but still no silver bullet
AFP, Published on 30/11/2021
» PARIS: With hopes of eradicating AIDS badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, we look at the fight against the deadly condition since its emergence 40 years ago, as the planet marks World AIDS Day on Wednesday.
Four decades of AIDS
AFP, Published on 05/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS.
UN staffer’s sexual assault in Bangkok lift case dismissed
Reuters, Published on 23/03/2021
» GENEVA: A policy adviser who filed a sexual assault complaint and was later fired by the UN agency fighting AIDS has lost an appeal against her dismissal for misconduct and been refused a copy of an investigation into her alleged assault, documents show.
Last century's epidemics more deadly than today's
AFP, Published on 05/02/2020
» PARIS: Before the emergence of the new coronavirus, which has sparked worldwide panic, other epidemics had struck earlier in the 21st century, but were less deadly than the previous century's pandemics.