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HEALTH-UGANDA: Fight Against AIDS Faltering?
By Joshua Kyalimpa
KAMPALA - Uganda's approach to the fight against HIV/AIDS is under scrutiny by activists. The country has won international acclaim for its 20-year campaign against the AIDS pandemic, but the latest numbers lead some activists believe Uganda is now losing ground.
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POPULATION-KENYA: Women's Choices Change Cities
By Rose N. Oronje
NAIROBI - This year the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: for the first time in history, more than half its population will be living in urban areas. In Kenya, rapid urbanisation is creating deepening poverty among urban residents.
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RIGHTS-KENYA: Commission To Challenge Silence on Sexual Crimes
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - No sooner did Kenya's Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence begin public hearings last week than it was overwhelmed by the enormity of the task at hand.
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Q&A: Family Planning In Its Infancy in South Sudan
By Interview with Makur Kariom, Director of Reproductive Health for South Sudan
JUBA - With few roads and almost no health and education infrastructure for the estimated 10 million people of South Sudan -- an April census has yet to release any results -- health care workers have an enormous task ahead of them.
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HEALTH-SOUTH SUDAN: Welcome New Attention to Maternal Care
By Skye Wheeler
JUBA - A vast pregnancy has swollen the tiny woman walking South Sudan's shining new maternity ward clutching two pieces of paper stapled together. She looks no more than 16, wide-eyed with recent pain.
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CULTURE-ETHIOPIA: Debate Swirls Around Fate of Holy Sites
By Michael Deibert
LALIBELA - Carved into the rugged mountains of northern Ethiopia, the eleven churches of Lalibela have for centuries remained among the most stunning visions a traveler can encounter.
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RIGHTS-SEYCHELLES: Problems In Paradise
By Mercedes Sayagues
VICTORIA - Annette* is a small, lively woman in her early sixties. Married to an abusive husband -- who once threw boiling water on her, landing her in hospital -- she was not repeating the story with her alcoholic and drug-addicted son. Just as her husband was growing older and calmer, her son was getting increasingly violent.
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POLITICS-AFRICA: Mixed Reviews From Civil Society
By Aya Batrawy
CAIRO - Civil society organisations (CSOs) have mixed feelings about the outcomes of the latest African Union Summit, which concluded in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh earlier this week. The summit meeting of African heads of state and officials was largely dominated by debate – or lack thereof – over the crisis in Zimbabwe and the participation of the controversial president, Robert Mugabe.
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RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: Women Bear Brunt of Violence
By Ephraim Nsingo
HARARE - "We are too familiar with the violence that was meted upon numerous of us from 1890 when the colonialists came into our country right up to the most recent elections. Chief among these forms of violence is sexual violence, and it concomitant implication, HIV infection. Zimbabwean women now have the lowest life expectancy world wide because of HIV & AIDS -- 34 years."
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HEALTH-MALAWI: Water Woes in Model Hospital
By Pilirani Semu-Banda
LILONGWE - Gladys Mawera's face is contorted with pain -– both she and her newborn baby survived a complicated birth three days ago -- but she has not been able to take the painkillers and antibiotics prescribed to her by the medical personnel at the Chiradzulu District Hospital in southern Malawi. The hospital has been without water for five days.
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POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Media Blackout for Female Candidates
By Interview with Loughty Dube, Chair of the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Zimbabwe
BULAWAYO - For activists campaigning to put more women into Africa's parliaments, the media has become a key battleground. All too often, female candidates are sidelined in election coverage, or reported on in a way that entrenches stereotypes of women rather than analysing the strength of their political and economic policies.
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