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RIGHTS-SWAZILAND: Reporting on AIDS Orphans a Balancing Act
The plight of AIDS orphans in Swaziland, currently labouring under the world's highest HIV prevalence rate, is an issue that demands coverage. Journalists often find themselves in a quandary concerning how best to tackle it, however.HEALTH: Conscience Needs a Celebrity
The situation of children born into AIDS is shocking, but Unicef believes it may still take a celebrity to get people to feel the shock.HEALTH-BURKINA FASO: Putting ARVs on TAP
For Zenabo Nikieme, a Burkinabé woman who has been HIV-positive since 2000, the future once again offers a glimmer of hope. Last year it was a very different story - something that prompted her to pen an open letter to Burkina Faso's Minister of Health.POLITICS-US: Another Bush Disaster Nominee Assailed
A month after President George W. Bush's national disaster chief resigned after bungling the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, his nomination of a right-wing Republican politician as the State Department's next director for refugee programmes is coming under sharp attack.POPULATION-SOUTH AFRICA: Inter-Country Adoption a Last Resort, or Best Hope?
It seems an obvious response to a pressing problem. If there are thousands of orphaned children in South Africa who cannot find a home in their extended families, then why not place more emphasis on adoption? And if adoptive families cannot be found locally, why not look abroad?POPULATION-BRAZIL: Reaching Out to Young Men to Fight Gender Violence
Watching his mother receive frequent beatings at the hands of his stepfather, until she finally lost her hearing in one ear, made him a quiet teenager who keeps his gaze glued to the floor.POPULATION: Better for Women Also Better for Men
Development needs a new boost - a change in male attitudes, says Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund.POPULATION-SOUTH AFRICA: “Men Must Work with Other Men”
For Tukisang Senne, programme director at the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (PPASA), the battle to put men and women on an equal footing has to be waged on various fronts.POPULATION: A Giant Leap From Rhetoric to Reality?
The largest gathering of world leaders meeting at the United Nations last month declared that the international community must keep gender equality, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health at the top of the global agenda over the next decade.POPULATION: In Tamil Nadu, Women Lead the War Against HIV
When a group of HIV-positive women dared go public with their health status at a modest function in early October, it was a revolution for this conservative town, famed for its ancient granite pagodas that speak of development in another millennium.POPULATION: Youth Unemployment Hits All-Time High
With nearly half the world's population of six billion people under 25 years old, the U.N. warned this week that poverty and lack of education is creating a new generation of marginalised youth.HEALTH-MOZAMBIQUE: Poverty and Stigma Ensnare Children With AIDS
At the tender age of 12, Pedro Moniz* is already a veteran when it comes to observing the regimen of anti-retroviral drugs that keeps AIDS-related illnesses at bay.HEALTH-THAILAND: Cheap Generics Bring Hope for HIV-Infected
When the thousands of people living with HIV in Thailand mark World AIDS Day on Dec.1, they will have reason to smile. No more will the threat of early death for lack of anti-HIV drugs haunt them.CULTURE: The Home of English Football’s Most Ardent Fans? Uganda
It's a cold, wet Sunday evening outside the Little Highbury pub. Inside, patrons are glued to a huge television screen showing an eagerly awaited football match between two English Premier League teams: Arsenal and Chelsea.HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: HIV-Positives in Search of Love, Click Here
Real love, as they say, can be hard to find. And, the odds of coming across a caring partner are even slimmer if you’re open about being HIV-positive.CUBA: Out of the Closet, Onto the Big Screen
A government-sponsored HIV/AIDS prevention group and the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) joined forces to organise a groundbreaking event: the first ever gay cinema week in the history of Cuba.DEVELOPMENT: Help the Poor! Book a Flight!
The world not only needs more money for development, it also needs to find new ways of raising it, a group of countries led by Brazil and France argued as they announced "innovative" development financing projects at the United Nations World Summit.HEALTH-KENYA: Regulations Spell Caution to Some, Paralysis to Others
Given Kenya's well-documented fight against corruption, few would dispute that rigorous systems need to be put in place for disbursing donor funds in the East African country.MILLENNIUM GOALS: Burma Must Tackle TB and HIV
For over 15 years a clinic in Mae Sot, a town along Thailand's north-western border, has offered a glimpse into how widespread tuberculosis (TB) is in neighbouring Burma.POLITICS: Condoms Lose Ground in HIV Prevention
Central America and Uganda this week became the latest targets for right-wing leaders to blast HIV/AIDS prevention efforts that stray from the George W. Bush administration's "abstinence-only" ideology.BURMA: Junta Stymies Millennium Development Goals
Who says the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs can be boring? Not if a military regime comes in the way of one of the global targets prescribed by the United Nations-halting the spread of AIDS by 2015.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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