Jaboya is a form of bartering observed on the coast of Kenya where a customer is also a lover. Men fish and women buy the fish to sell on the market. A woman without a boyfriend or a male partner would not be able to obtain fish. Women with limited income therefore offer sex to fishermen in exchange for fish. Fishermen on the other hand have a lot of choice and often more than one customer, and hence are involved in a network of sexual encounters fuelling the HIV …

Bibi Rusell, former international fashion model and now world renowned Bengali designer started her own version of (PRODUCT)RED with HIV-infected women in Cambodia.
Russell joined the women of MDSF, an initiative started in 2006 by the UN Development Program that now employs 17 women living with HIV in a Phnom Penh factory reports the Phnom Penh Post.
“If you join hands with women living with HIV with affection and confidence, they can create magic with their fingers. Fashion is very important, and it makes you understand the culture of a country,” …

Abstinence and faithfulness are often promoted as the only and best forms of protection against HIV infection. If the theory is true, in the real world abstinence and faithfulness have shown an impressive rate of failure. In a couple it takes two for it to work, and when single it takes an extremely powerfull mind to resist the call of nature, particularly under 30 (or more for some).
In a study published in Plos One, Keren Landman and colleagues examined the association between the number of sexual partners and HIV infection …

“A tiny group of Republican senators continues to block a vote on an important bill to increase American spending on AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world” i.e. PEPFAR.
Republicans opposing the re-authorisation of PEPFAR have done so on different grounds. A recurring argument being the cost of the President’s plan which, lest we forget represents less than 1.5% of the cost of the Iraq war. Another argument is the elimination of the statutory ban on admitting people infected with the HIV virus into the US, putting the country on …

Abdul Latiff Ahmad, Malaysia’s deputy health minister has urged every woman in the country to carry a condom to protect against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. “This is not to debase them but to protect them. Women are the first ones to get exploited by their (HIV-positive) partners,” the Sunday Star newspaper quoted adding, “But this is just a suggestion, it’s up to them.”
Soon, having realised that witchcraft might not work, he may urge every woman to go one step beyond and actually USE condoms for their protection againts …