News from category: Gender Issues
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Children share beds in the pediatric ward due to overcrowding
KYAKA II REFUGEE CAMP, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) – Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this …
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A Zambian health clinic
LUSAKA, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) – Parity Zulu, 17, constantly recited a Biblical verse asking God for protection from her persecutors while her mother ferried her to hospital following …
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Zambia aims to circumcise about 250,000 men every year
NAIROBI, 2 March 2010 (PlusNews) – Medical male circumcision is now widely recognized as an important HIV prevention tool, and several African countries have …
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As many as 130,000 Tanzanian women fall pregnant every year; many of these are unwanted pregnancies
DAR ES SALAAM, 1 March 2010 (PlusNews) – A Tanzanian project is integrating family planning and HIV …
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A girl should be able to marry at age 15, Mali’s Islamic council says as part of proposed changes to the family code (file photo)
BAMAKO, 26 February 2010 (IRIN) – A husband …
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Women continue to be treated as minors
MBABANE, 25 February 2010 (IRIN) – The High Court of Swaziland ruled on 23 February 2010 that some married women will be allowed to register property …
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Some of those displaced: Goma hosted about 140,000 IDPs in camps at the height of violence in North Kivu in 2008 and 2009, according to UNHCR (file photo)
GOMA, 22 February 2010 (IRIN) …
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Some of those displaced: Goma hosted about 140,000 IDPs in camps at the height of violence in North Kivu in 2008 and 2009, according to UNHCR (file photo)
GOMA, 22 February 2010 (IRIN) …
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Sexually active Rwandans use, on average, just three condoms every year
KIGALI, 16 February 2010 (PlusNews) – Doreen Uwimana, in her early 20s, carries condoms in her bag even when she goes to classes …
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Sex behind bars is a reality
NAIROBI, 16 February 2010 (PlusNews) – The Kenya Prisons Service has won praise for its HIV programmes, including education, testing and the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to …
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The association of genocide widows , Avega Agahozo, says sexual violence was used to humiliate, degrade and abuse women during the genocide (file photo)
KIGALI, 11 February 2010 (IRIN) – Sixteen years after …
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Jaboya – the exchange of sexual favours for fish – has been associated with Nyanza’s high HIV prevalence
KISUMU, 9 February 2010 (PlusNews) – Ooko*, a fisherman in his mid-twenties operating mainly from …
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HIV prevalence among Nyanza’s fishing communities is estimated to be as high as 30 percent
KISUMU, 9 February 2010 (PlusNews) – If you were a fishmonger in Kisumu, a city on Lake Victoria …
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Odile Nibizi and Annabella Nshimirimana: Many women in Bujumbura Rurale were forced into war. Others who stayed in the villages ended up performing chores either for the army or the FNL
BUJUMBURA, …
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Odile Nibizi and Annabella Nshimirimana: Many women in Bujumbura Rurale were forced into war. Others who stayed in the villages ended up performing chores either for the army or the FNL
BUJUMBURA, …
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Less than 10 percent of children currently receive malaria treatment within 24 hours of fever onset
JUBA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) – More than four million insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been distributed across Southern …
