HIV in the News

11 February 2019

• Eswatini leads the pack of fighting NTDs
  Swazi Observer

  The Kingdom of Eswatini is at the pinnacle of the list of African countries that are at low risk of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).

• Taiwan doctors provide free medical services to communities
  Swazi Observer

  A delegation of medical doctors and personnel from Taiwan Root Republic of China (Taiwan), consisting of 24 medical personnel, is in the country to provide free medical services to local communities.

• Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes
  Swazi Observer

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has emphasized that an experimental vaccine is playing a major role in controlling the spread of Ebola in the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

• 8 SODV cases, one court, same day
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  Times of Swaziland

  Mbabane- as the conduct of members of the public, notable men, continues to fuel the sting of the SODV Act, cases of behaviour that offends this law are coming thick and fast to the courts.

• Hundreds of pupils drop out due to PINs
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  Times of Swaziland

  Mbutfu- the pronouncement by government that pupils who do not have Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) will now be registered in schools, will surely be sweet music to the ears of hundreds of pupils who had dropped out due to lack of PINs.