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Bellissima, on bustling Gabon Street in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, could be just another upmarket café, except that each order comes with a...

Petrol tankers parked nose-to-tail line the five-kilometre stretch of road from the southern Nigerian town of Eleme to its refinery, waiting to fuel...

There is a growing belief among men in Swaziland that circumcision provides complete protection against HIV, a perception that worries...

The Kenyan government has embarked on an ambitious national programme to fast track the national rollout of male circumcision as a means of...

Before you wrap it up, meet the people who check it out. IRIN/PlusNews went inside the condom testing facilities of the South African Bureau of...

Condom resistance remains a real problem among HIV discordant couples in Uganda, new research has found. The study, whose results were presented...

Night falls early along the equator. When darkness creeps across the bay of Santa Ana and sets over the town of Sao Tome, the girls appear in twos...

It is hard not to resort to clichés when writing about Mauritius: the white, sandy beaches, sunny blue skies and swaying palm trees. This Indian...

The strong anti-condom stance of religious leaders in northern Kenya means few people there are using them and traders are refusing to stock them,...

The problem of HIV in Kenya's prisons - where prevalence is about twice the national average - will remain unsolved as long as homosexuality is...