Category: International
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International Saving Lives volunteer Emma Wilson will be blogging over the next few weeks from the Swaziland. Yesterday she wrote about the role of the community health promoter, and about a woman called Máke in particular. Today she writes about her experience of going out in the country with her … — In this picture…
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In the USA today, the Center for Disease Control has released important figures about the spread of HIV. The headline figure, as an excellent piece in the New York Times has it, is that new HIV infections have remained steady: Despite years of great progress in treating AIDS, the number of new infections with the virus…
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“Máke” in si swati means “mother”; it is a very appropriate name for a lady I met who works as a rural health promoter. Rural health promoters are people that live in the community who try to improve the access to medical care by either making people who are sick go to hospital or, if…
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International Saving Lives volunteer Emma Wallis will be blogging over the next few weeks from Siteki, Swaziland. In the first of her dispatches, she writes about the general HIV situation in the country, and the daily problems of communication and persuasion which face doctors seeking to convince patients to test for HIV… Introduction to the…
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Michael Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, has been urging donors not to assume China no longer needs help in its fight against HIV. despite its economic progress, China continues to need, according to Sidibe, a “catalytic fund”. In our own work in China, we share this assumption and applaud Sidibe for saying so: China is…
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Emma Wallis, a final year medical student at the University of Leeds, has volunteered for Saving Lives: she’s arriving in Swaziland this week to learn more about the fight against HIV in a country particularly hard hit by the infection, and will be blogging her experiences for us here on the site. She’ll be working…
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While our delegation to the Provicinal Health Bureau of Henan was in China last week, encouraging news was emerging from the country about the numbers of HIV-related deaths being experienced there. “Efforts to improve access to HIV drugs in China have cut deaths by more than 60% in seven years, researchers say,” you could read…
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The results of a study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US has found that early drug treatment can prevent onward transmission. Its data was so conclusive that the trial – slated to continue into 2015 – has been halted earlier than planned. There was a ninety-six per cent reduction…