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Italiano Remarks disparaging programmes to reduce HIV infections, made by Swaziland’s second top-ranking traditional leader, have sparked disbelief and anger among AIDS activists.
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 IRIN  20/08/2010Manya Andrews is a health communications consultant and former head of the international reproductive health organization, Populations Services International, in Togo. At a recent conference on HIV and couples, she spoke to IRIN/PlusNews about how she and her team had to rethink what they knew about sex to kick-start Togo’s male condom distribution campaign. Continue reading The condoms had the thickness and sensitivity of a tyre IRIN 20/08/2010One of the cheapest and most commonly used drugs for treating HIV in Africa – nevirapine – has been associated with an increased risk of treatment failure in a retrospective South African study. IRIN 19/08/2010JUBA – Humanitarian needs in Southern Sudan, where some 4.3m people already need food assistance and fewer than one in 10 earns more than US$1 a day, are likely to escalate after next year’s referendum on secession, says a government minister. Continue reading Referendum will increase humanitarian needs IRIN 19/08/2010AWASH – In the northeastern Ethiopian region of Afar, more than 91 percent of women undergo one of the most severe forms of genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Reproductive health education however, seems to be paying off, with the number of girls affected reducing, albeit gradually. IRIN 18/08/2010MKINGA – Regina Joseph was beaten up by a group of young men for “dressing indecently” on her way to the local market in northeastern Tanzania’s Mkinga District. IRIN 17/08/2010NAIROBI – The Kenyan government is drafting new regulations to stop fraudulent herbalists claiming to be able to treat diseases, including HIV, from practising. IRIN 17/08/2010NAIROBI – Fourteen days after Sudanese authorities cut off aid to Kalma, the largest internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in South Darfur, three international NGOs and UN agencies (the UN Children’s Fund, World Food Programme and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA) have been allowed to re-enter the settlement. Continue reading Aid agencies granted access to Kalma amid expulsions IRIN 17/08/2010NAIROBI – The town of Beletweyne in central Somalia’s Hiiraan region has recorded a marked increase in pupils returning to school following relative calm in the region over the past six months, say residents and school officials. Continue reading Relative calm boosts school numbers in Beletweyne International Crisis Group 17/08/2010The approaching elections could be important steps toward reviving democracy in Chad, but only if President Idriss Déby opens political space for the opposition beforehand. |
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