A new film explores gender inequality, culture, and the real complexities of relationships in the sex lives of young Namibians.

Programmes such as Soul City translate research findings into the lives of real people.

Expanding testing and early treatment to contain the epidemic.

Fewer than half of women referred for HIV treatment and care were enrolling in programmes.

Sixty percent of growth coming from non-traditional retail, manufacturing, financial services and other sectors.

By Laura Lopez Gonzalez

JOHANNESBURG, Mar 16 (IPS) – As donors retreat from funding HIV prevention and treatment, the vulnerability of national programmes reliant on external funding has become apparent. Without long-term sustainaibility, the lives of millions could be at risk.

By Jorrit Meulenbeek * – IPS/Street News Service

LUSAKA, Mar 15 (IPS) – Peggy Kapanda has bad memories of the time she spent living with her uncle when she was young. She was treated as a second-rank child. But this only motivated her to do a better job herself.

AIDS epidemic sees older women taking on motherhood for a second time, caring for grandchildren whose parents have died of the disease.

By Miriam Gathigah

NAIROBI, Feb 28 (IPS) – Access to affordable medicine for millions of people in the South could be at risk if the production and distribution of generic medicine from India is restricted.

Campaigners say both Kenyan legislation and a European Union-India trade agreement to be concluded this year will block access to affordable drugs.

Drug registration delays in South Africa contribute to depriving HIV patients of important fixed dose combination antiretroviral medicine.

‘We tried to get a sense of the cost of actually manufacturing drugs and what might be a reasonable profit margin.’

An estimated 140,000 orphans and vulnerable children are among the small, eager faces returning to school in Swaziland this week.

A variety of factors make teenaged sex workers are particular vulnerable to HIV.

The Global Fund has rejected Malawi’s application for $600 million to fight HIV for the second time.

Pumwani Maternity Hospital, in the impoverished Nairobi neighbourhood of Eastlands, is the site of a trial project using mobile phones to help HIV-positive mothers avoid passing the virus on to their children.