IRIN reports on African long haul truck drivers who entertain monogamous relationship with a girlfriend whilst they are on the road and their wife is a home.
“I decided to have one girlfriend, because if you go out with so many women then you risk getting HIV or other diseases,” said one Congolese truck driver referring to his girlfriend who lives on the Kenya-Uganda border.
Because this driver and many other like him believes that he is the “one and only”, he does not think condom are needed. But the problem …

During the opening ceremony of the 2008 AIDS Vaccine Conference in Cape Town, Barbara Hogan who was recently appointed Minister of Health following the demise of Dr Beetroot, said “We know that HIV causes Aids”.
It was a “breath of fresh air” reacted Alan Berstein, executive director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise.
Unfortunately I missed this historic moment but the Cape Times reports that Mrs Hogan is confident that a reform of the health system is possible and will scale up treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission. She also challenged scientists and researchers to …

The 2008 AIDS Vaccine Conference will be held in Cape Town (South Africa) from the 13 to 16th of October. Preparation for the event as well as a series of meetings and projects explain the gap in posting here, but there will be plenty of opportunities and a very long flight to prepare some material for the blog! See you in Cape Town, maybe!

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The Thai did it first and now the UK follows with the introduction of de-sexualised toilets to cater for transexual people. But the re-branding of female toilet into unisex or non-gendered toilets in the basement of the Union Building of the University of Manchester is creating quite a stir.
“Political correctness gone mad” write Student Direct, the university student newspaper:
“The ‘non-gendered’ facilities will be provided for all those men who do not ‘self-identify’ as men, and all those women who do not think of themselves as women. This potty parity is …