The Young, Female Face of HIV in East and Southern Africa
Gender inequalities explain why prevention is failing to contain HIV infection among young women in East and Southern Africa. UNAIDS calls for a major effort to reduce their risk of infection. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPSBy Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Nov 7 2014 (IPS)Experts are raising alarm that years of HIV interventions throughout Africa have failed to stop infection among young women 15 to 24 years old.“Prevention is failing for young women,” says Lillian Mworeko, HIV expert with International Community of Women Living with HIV in Eastern Africa, based in Uganda.Among women in East and Southern Africa, four out of te...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 7, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miriam Gathigah Tags: Africa Aid Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Population Projects Regional Categories Women's Health Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation International Community of Women Source Type: news
Writing the Final Chapter on AIDS
Testing, treating and suppressing viral load in massive numbers could curb the spread of AIDS by 2020. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPSBy Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Oct 17 2014 (IPS)Although AIDS has defied science by killing millions of people throughout Africa in the last three decades, HIV experts now believe that they have found the magic numbers to end AIDS as a public health threat in 15 years.The magic numbers are 90-90-90 and are informed by growing clinical evidence showing that HIV treatment equals prevention because putting people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces new infections.The new treatment targets seek t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 17, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miriam Gathigah Tags: Africa Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations AIDS Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Joint Uni Source Type: news
Helping Liberia
The West African nation of Liberia is currently dealing with deadliest outbreak of the Ebloa virus that the world has ever seen. With hundreds dead and thousands more impacted, Liberia and its neighboring countries are at the center of a serious health crisis that is proving extremely difficult to control.
The images coming out of the area are troubling for everyone to see, but especially so for Michelle Niescierenko, MD. As director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Global Health Program and the Academic Collaborative to Support Medical Education in Liberia, Niescierenko has spent years working with Liberian hea...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - August 12, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tripp Underwood Tags: All posts Global Health Program Liberia Source Type: news
Africa: SADR Supports Lesotho Initiative On Nutrition in Africa
[SPS]Malabo -President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz attended this morning a meeting called for by the Kingdom of Lesotho, in the margin of the 23rd summit of heads of state and government of the African Union, underway in Equatorial Guinea. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 27, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Maternal Deaths Due to HIV a Grim Reality
According to an African proverb, “every woman who gives birth has one foot on her grave.” It is time to make this proverb a historical fact and not a present reality. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPSBy Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Jun 27 2014 (IPS) An African proverb says that every woman who gives birth has one foot on her grave.
Sadly, this is still true today, especially within the context of the AIDS epidemic.
In spite of the huge advances in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in Africa, experts are concerned that these have not matched other pillars needed to eliminate maternal mortality caused...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 27, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miriam Gathigah Tags: Africa Countdown to ZERO Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Poverty & MDGs Projects Regional Categories Women's Health Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Maternal and Child Health Source Type: news
Africa: Southern Africa - Sex Workers Risk Contracting HIV
[Gender Links]Limited access to sexual reproductive health and abuse from male customers have been identified as key factors that place sex workers at risk of contracting HIV. Nkomile Mpooa of CARE-Lesotho brought the issue up during her presentation at the SADC Protocol@Work Summit currently underway in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 28, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Lesotho - "Model" Project Drains Health Budget
[AfricaFocus]A Dangerous Diversion (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 15, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Namibia: Global Fund Meeting Ends Well
[New Era]Windhoek -Participants at the just ended southern and eastern Africa regional meeting on the Global Fund's new funding model have committed to ensure robust participation of women and adolescents in designing their plans as well as implementing gender-responsive programmes in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The participants, who hailed from Angola, Botswana, the Commores, Eritrea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, South Sudan and Swaziland met in Windhoek for four days la (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - April 14, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Lesotho: Oxfam Stands By Lesotho Hospital Figures
[Oxfam]The World Bank's private sector arm, the IFC, today challenged Oxfam's figures that the new private hospital complex it supported in Lesotho had cost the country $67 million to run in 2013/14, or 51% of its $133 million health budget. Oxfam stands by the figures. They were provided by Lesotho's Ministry of Health among others. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 11, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: Public-Private Partnership Hospital 'Sapping Budget'
[IPS]Washington -The world's first hospital to be built and run in a developing country under a public-private partnership is taking up more than half of the health budget in Lesotho, according to new estimates, diverting resources from populations outside of the capital. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 8, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: 'Model Hospital' for Privatized African Health Care Threatens to Swamp Budget
[Oxfam]IFC-supported private hospital project eating up 51% of Lesotho's health budget (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 7, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Southern Africa: Southern Africa Tackles TB in the Mining Sector
[World Bank]Johannesburg -The governments of Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland today signed a framework for the harmonized management of tuberculosis in the mining sector in a move that will help to track, refer and treat infected miners in a standardized manner across these countries. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 26, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Lesotho takes new steps toward HIV/AIDS elimination
(Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation) The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is pleased to announce the expansion of its HIV and AIDS treatment and prevention programs in six districts in Lesotho. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 3, 2014 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Tanzania: Young Brides Can Get Health Complications
[Daily News]HOW child-friendly is the country? The Child-Friendliness Index 2013, which also compares progress, reveals that those scoring highest as the 'most child-friendly' are Mauritius, South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Lesotho, Algeria, Swaziland and Morocco. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - January 7, 2014 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Colin Murray obituary
My father, Colin Murray, who has died aged 65 of heart failure after suffering from the autoimmune disorder Churg-Strauss syndrome, was a distinguished anthropologist whose scholarship and lifelong friendships were characterised by a deep humanity.Edinburgh-born, he undertook a stint of VSO teaching in a bush school in Uganda before going to university. This experience led him to change from studying classics to social anthropology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and thence to several years of postgraduate fieldwork in a Lesotho village. Here the Pitse inhabitants became an extended family and these early trips to Afric...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 22, 2013 Category: Science Tags: theguardian.com Obituaries Lesotho Anthropology Scotland Africa Science Source Type: news
