News

Pretoria – Unitaid and South Africa’s National Department of Health have launched a partnership to accelerate the country’s efforts to prevent and treat HIV and tuberculosis. South Africa is home to the world’s biggest HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as one of the highest TB burdens. The joint endeavour will introduce HIV self-screening, expand access to […]

For almost a decade, Will & Grace star Debra Messing has been a global health ambassador for PSI. She has visited PSI’s HIV prevention programs in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia to bring attention to progress being made against the epidemic. Debra talks about why she calls her work with PSI, her “soul work”. Read more.

Does durian flavour tickle your fancy? Or would you like to try a missile-shaped “power shot” condom or one that is “baggy” at the tip for that extra spark? Perhaps a “delay condom” for prolonged sesh with your boo? All else failing, are you in the mood for something that glows in the dark? Malaysia’s […]

POPULATION Services International Zimbabwe has come up with a proposal to ensure the Bulawayo City Council decentralises the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) services to its clinics owing to the increase in uptake. PSI Zimbabwe has been working in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the local authority to provide VMMC […]

This report looks at the results of an impact evaluation of the Make The Cut Plus(MTC+) project – a short, sport-based intervention, delivered by Grassroot Soccer, that aims to increase demand for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) among adolescent male students (aged 15 to 19 years) in secondary schools in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The study forms […]

2016 has seen enormous developments in the health sector. Various initiatives and campaigns have been held in the fight against numerous infectious and non-communicable diseases in the country. However, much remains to be done in order for Rwanda to have healthier citizens. Healthy Times’ Donah Mbabazi spoke to various stakeholders in the health sector on […]

In rural Zimbabwe, 53-year-old Rosemary Mapingurei receives life-saving antiretroviral drugs free of cost at the Dumbo district health centre, a few hours’ drive from Harare. In fact, Rosemary has been coming to the clinic for years and has successfully switched from first line to second line antiretroviral therapy. Stories like this are heartening to note […]

UNITAID welcomes new WHO guidelines that recommend the use of HIV self-testing to help get millions of people who do not know they are infected with HIV diagnosed and put on treatment. The guidelines are borne out by preliminary results from the world’s largest evaluation of HIV self-testing, funded by UNITAID in Malawi, Zambia and […]

Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) provides at least a 60% protective effect against HIV infection for men, but, while service delivery for VMMC has improved, uptake has stalled. In response, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded Ipsos Healthcare, a market research company, to investigate how to better understand behavioural and psychographic characteristics of men […]

SAN DIEGO and LUSAKA, Zambia, March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — WomanCare Global (WCG) announced today it has launched the Maximum Diva Woman’s Condom in Zambia with partner, Population Services International (PSI), as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA) co-funded project, Expanding Effective Contraceptive Options (EECO). The […]