Recently, South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper, in collaboration with the United Nations Millennium Development Campaign, launched a series of exclusive interviews with African presidents about the progress their countries have made toward achieving the  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This week, the newspaper staff spoke with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. During the interview, President Kagame referred to the 2005 DHS several times, explaining how the survey results have helped Rwanda measure its progress toward meetings the MDGs.

HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and behavior indicators from the following surveys are now available on the HIV/AIDS Surveys Indicator database (http://www.measuredhs.com/hivdata). Both surveys included HIV testing, including in the previous rounds, and HIV prevalence indicators are available.

New HIV data from 15 DHS countries have been added to the HIVmapper and HIV Spatial Data Repository websites (http://www.hivmapper.com/ and http://www.hivspatialdata.net/). The new countries are Niger, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Rwanda, Moldova, Honduras, Haiti, Guinea, Ethiopia, Egypt, Cote d'lvoire, Colombia, Cambodia, and Armenia.

The new Central African Republic Atlas of HIV and AIDS Indicators presents thematic maps of HIV and AIDS indicators based on the 2006 Multiple Indicator Survey in Central African Republic (MICS-III).

MEASURE DHS is proud to announce the publication of several new Working Papers.