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Anti-Retroviral Drugs Bringing About Encouraging Results in Humera Town
Patriarch Says Much Expected from Religious Leaders in HIV/AIDS Prevention
President Girma, Arkebe, Athlete Haile Called on Society to Take Care Of HIV/AIDS
PM says Great Run Helps Youth Protect Themselves from HIV/AIDS
Public Urged to Take Action to Arrest Spread HIV/AIDS
Members of Defense Forces Undertaking HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities
Ethiopia Needs Over 1.7 Billion Dollar to Implement Primary Health Care Services in Rural Areas
EOC Executing 6 Million Birr Food Security Projects
Elderly, Idir Leaders Vow to Fight Against Harmful Traditional Practices
President Says Foreign Assistance Required to Improve Health Situation
PLWHA Associations Launch HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign in Rural Areas
Sex Workers Start up Petty Trade
EOC Stresses HIV/AIDS Awareness Raising
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors Offer Lesson on HIV/AIDS
Sub-City, Coalition Organize Symposium
CCF to Launch Over 52 Million Birr Projects in Four StatesMEKELE (WIC), November 29, 2004—Medical Director of Humra Hospital, Dr. Yibeltal Assefa said that anti-retroviral drugs being supplied to people living with the virus are bringing about the desired results. Dr. Assefa told WIC yesterday that the 122 people taking the drug since last year are gaining weight and showing improvement in their health. According to the medical director, a monitoring undertaken on an HIV/AIDS positive woman has indicated significant improvement and her weight, which was only 18 kilograms before she began taking the drug is now 53 kilograms.
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AXUM (WIC), November 29, 2004—The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch, Abune Paulos said much is expected from religious leaders to prevent HIV/AIDS that is challenging the development journey by killing the productive and upcoming generation. Addressing a huge gathering at Adwa town stadium yesterday, His Holiness said religious leaders should persistently strive to create awareness among their followers to contain HIV/AIDS that is causing serious damage to productive citizens of all religions, race and color.
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ADDIS ABABA (ENA), November 28, 2004—President Girma, City Mayor Arkebe Ekubay and Athlete Haile Gebre-Silassie called on the society at large to take care of HIV/AIDS in messages of read out here on Sunday at Maskal Square.The Messages prepared by the Ethiopian News Agency in cooperation with the National HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Secretariat pointed out that the society should make use of HIV/AIDS education.
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ADDIS ABABA (WIC), November 28, 2004—Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said that the Great Run helps the youth to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and discharge national responsibilities. Launching the fourth Great Run at Meskel square here today, the Prime Minister said the competition has a decisive role in enabling the youth realize that they should protect themselves from the disease and fulfill national obligations. Meles said the youth should equally exert collective efforts for the realization of development, peace and national growth as 20,000 of them have supported the Great Run.
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ADDIS ABABA (WIC), November 27, 2004—The Addis Ababa Administration Health Bureau Head, Dr. Iyob Kamil called upon the public to take initiatives in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and its impacts. Addressing a discussion organized by the Addis Ababa University Union of Movements Against HIV/AIDS and Addis College Anti-AIDS Club here today, Dr. Iyob said the government has designed a strategy to mobilize the public against the disease.
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MAKALLE (ENA), November 27, 2004—Members of the Defense Forces in Zalambessa, Tigray State have been engaged in various anti-HIV/AIDS intervention activities, an army commander in the area said. Brigade Commander in the area said. Brigade Commander Major Aferra Assefa said Thursday members of the army have been providing a series of HIV/AIDS awareness-raising orientation to the public. Major Aferra said the anti-HIV/AIDS orientations are aimed at bringing about desirable behavioral changes on the part of the local community in a bid to containing the spread of the disease. Members of the army have also been assisting local framers in harvesting crops, the commander indicated. Holding a public conference Thursday, the people living in Gulo Meheda Woreda of the state vowed to fight the fast-spreading disease and to assist persons living with the virus. Speaking on the occasion, head of the woreda HIV/AIDS prevention and control office Woldu Lemma said commandants and members of the Defense Forces have been undertaking exemplary activities toward the prevention and control of the disease. The public conference has brought together over 130 members of the army, administrative bodies, and local people.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald, Saturday 27 November 2004, Page 2
ADDIS ABABA (ENA), November 26, 2004—Ethiopia needs over 1.7 billion US Dollar to implement the new health extension program that aimed at reaching out the rural part of the country with quality primary health care services in the coming five years, the ministry of health announced. Implementation of the program requires 350 million US Dollars annually, the ministry said while popularizing here on Friday to donor organizations the document titled ''Accelerated Expansion of Primary Health Care Coverage in Ethiopia''.
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MAKALLE (WIC), November 26, 2004—Development Coordination Office of the Tigray Diocese with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church said it is carrying out close to 6 Million Birr food security projects. Office Coordinator, Zemikael Bogale told WIC yesterday that the diocese is implementing health, potable water, natural resources, veterinary and HIV/AIDS prevention projects to ensure food security of peasants. He said a health post, one water harvesting well, a vet post and two potable water facilities of the projects would go operational in the near future. The diocese has also sunk 22 deepwater wells in Raya Azebo Woreda, he said, adding that two wells are well underway. Similarly, he said it is also protecting 329 hectares of forest from destruction by zoning it and distributing more than 400,000 tree seedlings to peasants. Four potable water projects and one vet post are also well underway he said. He said the diocese is building VCT center at a cost of 607,000 birr while supporting 380 orphans. Projects finalized so far have benefited more than 160,000 inhabitants, he added. Respective Woredas rural development office representative said that the public is providing support to the projects.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald, Friday 26 November 2004, Page 6
HOSSAENA (WIC), November 26, 2004—The elderly people and leaders of idirs, community-based organizations, expressed their readiness to contribute to the success of initiatives being taken to eradicate harmful traditional practices in Kefa zone. While winding up a week-long reproductive health awareness raising workshop, the elderly and the CBO leaders said that harmful traditional practices are negatively affecting the society in general and violating women’s rights to hold property and to pursue education in particular.
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ADDIS ABABA (ENA), November 26, 2004—President Girma Wolde-Giorgis said the assistance of the international community is required to help improve the health situation in Ethiopia and high fight HIV/AIDS. President Girma said, “Indeed, the health situation of Ethiopia, like any other developing country, requires the attention and assistance of others.” He made the remark while inaugurating a new hospital built with 56 million birr by Myungsung Presbyterian Church of Korea here yesterday. President Girma said the assistance being provided by foreign-based institutions would further enhance the capacity of the country in improving its health services. The construction of the hospital would contribute its share in alleviating the problem related to health care services, he said. “In this regard, we reckon on the government of the republic of Korea and our friends in Korea to help us in the transfer of adaptable technologies and knowhow as well as provision of adequate training to the Ethiopian professionals,” Girma added. President Girma also visited the various facilities of the hospital. The hospital, which was constructed near Bole International Air-port here in the metropolis, will provide medical care and training to Ethiopian medical personnel, among others, according to a leaflet issued by Myungsung Presbyterian Church. The hospital has 99 beds with 125 medical professional working staff.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald, Friday 26 November 2004, Page 2
AWASSA (WIC), November 26, 2004—Two associations of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) yesterday departed to rural parts of SNNPS to undertake anti-AIDS campaign with the view to preventing the disease. More than 42 members of Tesfa Goh and Tila HIV/AIDS positive women's associations moved from Awassa to rural areas to carry out the campaign.They said the objective of the campaign is to stop stigmatization that has been widespread in rural areas and to educate the public about the disease.
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ENDASILASSIE (ENA), November 26, 2004—Some 108 commercial sex workers living in Northwest Tigray Zone engage in small-scale business enterprises with loans obtained from the women’s association of the state, the Zonal Women’s Association said. Chairperson of the Association, Mulu Gebre-Eziabher said yesterday the beneficiaries living in seven towns of the state have received 1,000 birr each to start up petty trade. The beneficiaries have obtained awareness-raising orientations on HIV/AIDS and on small-scale business enterprises before the provision of the loans, she said.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald, Friday 26 November 2004, Page 2
ADDIS ABABA (ENA), November 25, 2004—Ecclesiastics should have better awareness on HIV/AIDS in order to sensitize the faithful about the lethal disease, an official with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) said. Speaking at orientation program organized for 100 ecclesiastics working under EOC-Development and Inter-Church AID Commission (EOC-DICAC), HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Project head with EOC, Solomon Hailu said the clergy could play a pivotal role in preventing the disease. He said the EOC has been undertaking various HIV/AIDS sensitization activities. According to the head, DICAC, in collaboration with USAID, Packard Foundation, Christian Aid as well as HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office are implementing the projects through 27 branches. The organization has been supporting HIV/AIDS orphans, People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) and commercial sex workers, Solomon said. He said DICAC also undertakes HIV/AIDS sensitization activities and counseling services.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald, Thursday 25 November 2004, Page 2
ALELTU (ENA), November 25, 2004—United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassadors, Danny Glover, an American film actor, Olympic champions, Kenenisa Bekele and Berhane Adere, offered an HIV/AIDS orientation to children in Ethiopian Children's Fund (ECF) Village in Aleltu, an outskirt of Addis Ababa. The Goodwill Ambassadors offered the orientation while visiting the village here on Thursday.
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ADDIS ABABA (ENA), November 25, 2004—The HIV/AIDS Desk of the Yeka Sub-city Administration and the National Coalition of Women against HIV/AIDS jointly organized a relevant symposium here yesterday in connection with the World AIDS Day to be marked worldwide on December 1st. Social and Civil Affairs Office Head with the Sub-city Administration Mideksa Abdi on the occasion called for all-out efforts to halt the spread of the disease. He called on efforts to bring about attitudinal change to tackle problems associated with the disease, to which he said women are most vulnerable. The meeting took up top in the agenda on measures that should be taken to reducing women’s vulnerability to the virus. This year’s World AIDS Day will be marked with the motto: Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald, Thursday 25 November 2004, Page 2
ADDIS ABABA (WIC), November 24, 2004—Christian Children's Fund (CCF)-Ethiopia, an international humanitarian organization, said it has earmarked more than 52 million birr for the execution of various social and development projects in four states in the coming year. CCF officials Fikru Abebe and Dereje Dejene told Walta that the projects would focus on the expansion of maternal and child basic health care, infants' care, children health surveillance and nutritious food delivery to children.
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