| SOUTH AFRICA: Life expectancy drops |
 JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
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UGANDA: HIV-positive women need family planning services, study shows |  NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals.
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SOUTH AFRICA: World Cup to help create HIV awareness |  JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans presents a golden opportunity, not only for the country's business and tourism sectors, but also for its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS.
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KENYA: The million man cut |  KISUMU, 17 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - The Kenyan government is expanding services to meet the growing demand for voluntary medical male circumcision after the launch of a national campaign a year ago.
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AFRICA: Trying to give sex workers safer alternatives |  JOHANNESBURG, 17 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportionately affected by high rates of poverty and HIV.
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UGANDA: AIDS Commission takes new direction in prevention |  KAMPALA, 16 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped.
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ZAMBIA: Orphans grow up without cultural identity |  LUSAKA, 16 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses. She is now 19 years old, and without relatives to represent her at her lobola (bride price) negotiations, she was forced to hire traditional counsellors to organise the process of marriage according to the tribal customs. They did a bad job.
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GLOBAL: Global Fund approves $2.4 billion in new grants |  NAIROBI, 13 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved US$2.4 billion in its ninth round of grants, bringing the total amount of approved funding since its inception in 2001 to $18.4 billion.
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GLOBAL: Mismatch between HIV spending and need |  JOHANNESBURG, 12 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - The global economic crisis may have the positive spinoff of forcing countries to allocate increasingly scare HIV/AIDS resources more efficiently.
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GLOBAL: Disabled should claim rights in UN convention |  NAIROBI, 12 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) should be used as a tool to improve access to HIV services for disabled people, who are often marginalized in national HIV policies, says a new report.
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