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DEVELOPMENT-NIGER Three Million Children Threatened by Hunger By Ousseini Issa BOBOYE, Niger - Women have been left in charge of many of the households in the village of Zamkoye-Koïra, in western Niger, as food shortages have driven male family members to leave in search of work elsewhere. A national survey of vulnerable households shows that 5.4 million people face food insecurity across Niger. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN - If there was no HIV/AIDS, South Africa would have 4.4 million more people than today, the size of a major city. This significant slow-down in population growth is causing a slow down in economic growth and resulting in social ills, researchers warn. MORE >>
SOUTH SUDAN Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict By Jared Ferrie PIBOR, South Sudan - In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent inter-ethnic clashes in Pibor county that killed her mother and sisters. MORE >>
CAMEROON Stepping Naturally Away from Plastic By Ngala Killian Chimtom YAOUNDÉ - Maya Stella, a restaurant manager in the capital of Cameroon, no longer uses plastic to wrap the corn-fufu that she sells to her customers. She now uses banana or plantain leaves instead, because these are "natural and it is our African culture to use leaves in wrapping food." MORE >>
Double Sentence: AIDS in a Senegalese Prison By Amanda Fortier* - Street News Service DAKAR - Amadou* takes in a long, deep breath, clears his throat and steps to the front of the room. He turns to look out at a familiar group of faces sitting on long wooden benches here at the Camp Penal maximum-security prison in Dakar. This is the last in a group of 150 inmates Amadou has been speaking with today. He’s tired, but remains focused. MORE >>
KENYA Medical Waste Poses Serious Threat to Scavengers By David Njagi NAIROBI - For Collins Otieno, the onset of a new day ushers in mixed fortunes that can either earn him some money or expose him to infection, as he struggles to make ends meet by scavenging for waste. MORE >>
ZAMBIA "People Are Not Dead Until They Have Died" By Jorrit Meulenbeek* - IPS/Street News Service LUSAKA - "I had no power, I could not even walk. I just had to be lifted by someone. When bathing, when going to the toilet, when going anywhere," Geoffrey Mwila says in a soft voice. MORE >>
SIERRA LEONE The Isolation of Epilepsy Sufferers By Abdul Samba Brima and Jessica McDiarmid FREETOWN - Elizabeth Zainab Kargbo was a successful young woman, eight months pregnant and working in Sierra Leone’s civil service, when she had her first seizure. MORE >>
KENYA A Shelter for Safe Delivery By Isaiah Esipisu GARISSA, Kenya - The Garissa Maternal Shelter in North Eastern Province, Kenya is the only such facility in an area with the country’s highest maternal mortality rate. At 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births, it is almost double the country’s average. MORE >>
Deadly Gas Enters the Arab Spring By Cam McGrath CAIRO - Activists across the Middle East are reporting a mysterious toxin, possibly a banned nerve agent, in the thick clouds of tear gas used by security forces to suppress anti-government protests in recent months. MORE >>
SOUTH SUDAN Women Aim to Protect Their Rights in a Young State By Amanda Wilson WASHINGTON - As South Sudan maps out its economic future at the South Sudan International Engagement Conference (IEC) this week in Washington, women from the new country called on donors to invest in projects that ensure women benefit equally from development plans. MORE >>
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AMREF - African Medical and Research Foundation
Africare
AEGIS - Aids Education Global Information System
Global Health Information Network
The African Centre for Health and Population Studies
Health Aids Action Campaign
PlusNews is an HIV/AIDS news service produced by the UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
