Step up anti-Aids struggle: Kikwete JK Aids

The recently released Controller and Auditor General (CAG)’s report reveals huge amount of unspent money meant for HIV/Aids programme during the 2012/13 Financial Year. A total of 58 councils failed to spend about Sh2.3billion.

The Aids epidemic can brought under control by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations Aids agency.

Since the emergence of HIV/Aids more than two decades ago, there has been a number of initiatives aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus, which causes HIV/Aids. These efforts to contain new infections have taken different faces and approaches.

The origin of the Aids pandemic has been traced back to 1920s Kinshasa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists say.

 Dr. Fatma Mrisho, Executive Director for Tanzania Commissions for AIDS (TACAIDS), joined by Former President Hon. Benjamin Mkapa (centre) and The Managing Director of AngloGold Ashanti - Geita Gold Mine Mr. Terry Mulpeter and Mr. Simon Shayo Vice President of Sustainability and their colleagues during the launch of Kilimanjaro Challenge 2015 campaign in  Dar es Salaam. TACAIDS received a cheque worth two hundred million so as to facilitate the eradication of HIV and AIDS in Tanzania. DC of...

This World Aids Day comes at a critical moment in Tanzanian history—and for its future. The world has recently committed to end the Aids epidemic as a public health threat by 2030 as part of the new Sustainable Development Goals.

It is generally accepted that the number of street children has risen progressively in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Arusha, Mbeya and other urban areas in recent years—and this despite high public awareness on their plight.

>Researchers now believe that the number of patients dying with advanced HIV/Aids can be cut down if governments in Africa invest in improving the patients’ home care and adopt low-cost interventions.

The public health challenge posed by West Africa's Ebola outbreak is unlike anything since the emergence of HIV/Aids, a top US medical official says.