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More feature stories on Swaziland
- High-level delegation commits to tackle the deadly epidemics of TB and HIV in Southern Africa
- This week Swaziland played host to a powerful delegation of health leaders and experts committed to ending the duel epidemics of TB and HIV across the region. Convened by the Ministers of Health of both Swaziland and South Africa, supported by the Stop TB Partnership the meeting brought together brilliant minds and solid expertise to find ways of accelerating action to end the TB and TB/HIV co-epidemics in the countries of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).
- Swaziland launches a new national framework to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé joined Swaziland’s Minster of Health, Benedict Xaba to launch a new National Framework to stop new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keep their mothers alive.
- Building knowledge, skills and hope in southern Africa’s schools
- Students and teachers in four southern African countries are benefiting from an ambitious HIV programme, spearheaded by UNESCO, designed to strengthen the education sector’s AIDS response in Angola, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland.
- King of Swaziland calls for reinforced national response to AIDS
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé is in Swaziland on the first leg of a three-country tour of Southern Africa to gain insight on progress and challenges towards achieving the goals of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
- More infants protected from HIV as access to antiretroviral drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission increases
- Despair is giving way to cautious optimism even in the most HIV-affected African nations as antiretroviral drugs become more widely available to stop HIV-positive women from infecting their unborn child or infant, thus edging closer to United Nations targets for an HIV-free generation of children.
- Friends of UN Plus in Swaziland, Mozambique
- Strengthening efforts towards a stigma-free work environment for United Nations staff living with HIV and their families, UN Plus has launched a new Friends of UN Plus initiative in Swaziland. Keeping up the momentum to break down barriers and silence around HIV in southern Africa, this will be followed by the launch of a similar initiative in Mozambique on September 23.
- Swaziland: WFP supports families living with HIV
- As a man living with HIV, Vusie Maphalala knows very well that without regular, adequate nutrition people receiving treatment for HIV are weakened and cannot reap the full benefit of their drugs. Two years ago his wife died for this very reason. Under a joint project run by the World Food Programme (WFP) and Swaziland’s Ministry of Health Mr Maphalala receives food rations and is now able to support his family.
- Swaziland: community involvement key
- The involvement and participation of communities in providing care and support to people living with HIV and orphans in Swaziland has been heralded as a prime example of ‘best practice’
- Revival of old traditions brings hope to orphans in Swaziland
- In Swaziland there are few families who remain unaffected by AIDS. One of the biggest challenges facing the country today is how to care for the estimated 63,000 children orphaned by the epidemic. ‘KaGogo’ centres are one way in which the people of Swaziland have been tackling this issue.