SAHARA is an alliance of partners established to conduct, support and use social sciences research to prevent the further spread of HIV and mitigate the impact of its devastation in sub-Saharan Africa. We believe that well-researched and proven African intervention models are needed to halt the spread of the HIV pandemic.
The Executive Director of the International AIDS Society to speak at the 2011 SAHARA Conference on the social, political and economics landscape of HIV prevention and response.
NAROK, 27 January 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Voluntary counselling and testing centres around Kenya are turning people away due to a shortage of HIV testing kits after the recall in December of more than one million faulty HIV tests.
MBABANE, 23 January 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Swaziland is still short of lab reagents needed for CD4 count testing, which is used to initiate and monitor patients on antiretroviral treatment, and HIV-positive people are growing increasingly frustrated as the country enters its fourth month without a way to establish the strength of their immune system.
NAIROBI, 23 January 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - A small Kenyan study has found that more women than men feel HIV is a less serious threat after their male partners are circumcised; the study also made local news for finding that female partners of recently circumcised men found sex more enjoyable.
Statistics indicate that more than half of the women with sexually transmitted infections in Nepal sought sexual health services. This study explores ...