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AFRICA: Maternal Mortality, A Human Rights Catastrophe Analysis by Rosemary Okello and Terna Gyuse BRUSSELS and CAPE TOWN - The right to the highest attainable standard of health: not the most fashionable of human rights, but the limits on people's enjoyment of their right to health often coincide with continuing inequalities behind claims of economic growth or political reform. MORE >>
HEALTH-SENEGAL: Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate By Koffigan E. Adigbli DAKAR - In Senegal’s southern region, 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance, according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda, a town 425 km from the capital, Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula. MORE >>
RIGHTS-NAMIBIA: 'Cut, Cut Again and Now Tie Tightly' By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - Anna Shikongo* wanted many more children, but five-month old Johannes, perched on her lap, will forever be her lastborn. She was sterilised by doctors at a government hospital. Now she is ready to take the government to court. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: AIDS Relief: 'We Might Have to Be More Selective' Servaas van den Bosch interviews THOMAS WALSH, PEPFAR coordinator WINDHOEK - What started as a multi-billion dollar tsunami against HIV/AIDS during the presidency of George W. Bush has trickled down to a carefully channelled stream of funding under president Barack Obama. Instead of the additional billion dollars a year promised for AIDS funding, Congress approved a meagre $165 million increase for 2010. MORE >>
HEALTH-MOZAMBIQUE: Scant Progress With Paediatric HIV By Ruth Ayisi INHAMBANE, Mozambique - Christina M.* looks worried as she cradles one of her sick twin babies. The mother of five already lost twins and another baby to illness soon after childbirth a few years ago. MORE >>
Q&A: Why Sanitation Is the Forgotten Sister Busani Bafana interviews NOMA NESENI, WSSCC water, sanitation and health coordinator BULAWAYO - As part of the International Year of Sanitation in 2008, Zimbabwe developed a national strategy for sanitation, launched in February 2008. Just five months later, a cholera outbreak that was to claim over 4,000 lives began. MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Donor Support For Health Sector Drying Up By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - As the global economic downturn begins to take its toll on developing countries, Swaziland's health system - already strained by the burden of HIV/AIDS - has come under severe threat. The third of the national health budget which comes directly from donor agencies is abruptly drying up. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: ‘‘19th WEF on Africa Just About Elite Agendas’’ By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - The 19th World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, which kicks off tomorrow, is a space ‘‘for the rich and powerful elites who control the global economy and who seek to further open Africa’s economy in collaboration with a tiny minority of corrupt elites in Africa. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Mental Illness in HIV-Positive Patients Largely Ignored By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN - Although mental disorders, such as depression and dementia, are a commonly associated with HIV, they remain largely undiagnosed in South Africa. Lack of human and financial resources for mental health are the main reason for this, researchers say. MORE >>
RIGHTS: Honour Pledges on Reproductive Health Analysis by Rosemary Okello BRUSSELS - In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) proposed a groundbreaking shift in the approach to reproductive health: women’s reproductive capacity was to be transformed from an object of population control to a matter of women’s empowerment to exercise personal autonomy. MORE >>
AFRICA-US: Growing Drug Trade Linked to Terror Groups By Danielle Kurtzleben WASHINGTON - Drug trafficking was once thought to be a largely Latin American problem, but the international community increasingly finds itself fighting this phenomenon in Africa. MORE >>
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Africare
AEGIS - Aids Education Global Information System
Global Health Information Network
The African Centre for Health and Population Studies
Health Aids Action Campaign
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