Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE, Jul 25 2011 (IPS) – Swaziland s economic crisis has affected its ability to provide healthcare as the country s buffer stock of antiretrovirals (ARVs) has fallen below the prescribed three-month supply.
And people living with HIV/AIDS are extremely concerned about what will happen to their treatment if the country cannot afford to purchase ARVs.
Led by the Swaziland National Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (SWANNEPHA), civil society organisations took to the streets on Jul. 21 to demand that government ensure that there are enough ARVs in the country. The ministry of health is not (being) clear if people on antiretroviral treatment (ART) are assured the availability of ARVs, said SWANNEPHA vice-president Vusi Nxumalo as he delivered a p…
MONTEVIDEO, Aug 16 2013 (IPS) – Representatives of 38 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean meeting this week in the Uruguayan capital urged governments in the region to consider modifying their laws on abortion, which are among the most restrictive in the world.
The calls on “States to consider amending their laws, regulations, strategies and public policies relating to the voluntary termination of pregnancy in order to protect the lives and health of women and adolescent girls, to improve their quality of life and to reduce the number of abortions”.
The document was adopted at the end of the first session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which ran Monday through Thursday.
Daptnhe Cuevas, of…