| In Brief: HIV-positive cases jump to 556 in Afghanistan |
 KABUL, 5 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Over 50 people have been diagnosed as HIV-positive in Afghanistan over the past nine months, bringing the number of registered cases to 556, according to the National HIV/AIDS Control Programme.
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EGYPT: Needle sharing rife among drug users |  DUBAI, 21 June 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - The prevalence of HIV among intravenous drug users (IDUs) in Egypt is relatively low, but needle sharing is rife among this group, putting them at risk of contracting the virus, experts say.
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GLOBAL: Chronic diseases reach “epidemic” proportions - WHO |  DAKAR, 19 June 2009 (IRIN Global) - Chronic diseases—especially cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory and heart diseases – kill twice as many people worldwide every year than do infectious diseases HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, combined. But despite their stealth ascent to epidemic proportions – mostly in poor countries, according to World Health Organization (WHO) – chronic diseases receive scant donor and government attention.
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IRAQ: HIV-positive persons fear reprisals |  BAGHDAD, 14 January 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Wife and now widow Hana’a Khalil (a pseudonym she uses to disguise her identity) fainted when a doctor at one of Baghdad’s hospitals told her in the late 1990s she had contracted HIV. When she came to she could not take in what the doctor was telling her.
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YEMEN: Poverty, lack of education boosting HIV/AIDS - experts |  SANAA, 7 January 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Maha (not her real name), 22, has been a commercial sex worker since she was 17. She told IRIN she and her sister were forced into prostitution to provide food and medical treatment for their ailing mother.
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YEMEN: Building HIV/AIDS response capacity |  SANAA, 16 September 2008 (IRIN Middle East) - The Sanaa office of the international development charity Progressio is trying to build up capacity among four local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with the aim of helping them respond to HIV/AIDS.
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MIDDLE EAST: Doors of tolerance begin to open for gay Muslims |  JOHANNESBURG, 4 December 2007 (IRIN Middle East) - Suhail AbualSameed looked calm, yet he was shaking inside. He was seated before a row of ulama, distinguished Islamic scholars, from Afghanistan to Yemen at the International Consultation on Islam and HIV/AIDS, organised by the charity, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), in Johannesburg, South Africa, last week.
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ASIA: Opening eyes of migrants to dangers of big cities' embrace |  BANGKOK, 13 June 2007 (IRIN Global) - With ever greater numbers of people on the move in search of jobs and opportunities in the Mekong River region, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has unveiled a series animated videos to inform and warn migrant workers about the risk of HIV/AIDS.
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IRAQ: Shortage of anti-retroviral drugs in Kurdistan | ARBIL, 12 December 2006 (IRIN Middle East) - Health officials in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region have said they lack anti-retroviral drugs and the necessary equipment for testing for the HI virus and that they have been instructed by health authorities in Baghdad to deport foreigners who have been found HIV-positive.
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OPT: No friends, few drugs and little expertise for AIDS patients |  GAZA CITY, 6 December 2006 (IRIN Middle East) - The manner in which 14-year-old Mahmoud (not his real name) caught the HIV virus was unusual - but the subsequent reaction of Palestinian society was all too predictable.
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