Swaziland: Hunger Forces Schools to Close Early
[Swazi Media] Teachers across Swaziland are reporting that schools are forced to close early because there is no food to feed children. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 7, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Clinics for World ’ s Vulnerable Brace for Trump ’ s Anti-Abortion Cuts
Health workers say President Trump ’ s ban on abortion counseling will hurt even those health services that do not involve abortions. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DIONNE SEARCEY, NORIMITSU ONISHI and SOMINI SENGUPTA Tags: Abortion Africa Medicine and Health Trump, Donald J Birth Control and Family Planning Pregnancy and Childbirth Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Senegal Lesotho Swaziland Colombia United States Politics and Government Source Type: news
Swaziland: Unpaid Nurses and Staff Strike
[Swazi Media] Nurses and support staff at a major hospital in Swaziland walked off work on Wednesday (26 October 2016) because they had not been paid. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 27, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: Nurses Threaten to Strike Next Week
[VOA] Nurses in Swaziland are threatening to embark on an indefinite strike next week after the government in Mbabane failed to meet their demands for better working conditions. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 27, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Makes Emergency Singapore Trip, Abandons Summit
[New Zimbabwe] PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Tuesday abandoned the ongoing Sadc summit in Swaziland after his health reportedly deteriorated. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 31, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swaziland: Redrawing What It Means to Be a Man
[Al Jazeera] The 300 or so pictures of "the ideal man" drawn by boys joining a male-mentoring charity in Swaziland are almost always the same. They depict a solitary and solemn figure who appears domineering - on his land, drinking and wearing traditional dress. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 10, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: New Genomics Study to Help Children With HIV and Tuberculosis
[Observer] The Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN), a Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiate consortium project has just been started to conduct a three-year genomic study in Uganda, Botswana and Swaziland. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 6, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Swaziland: Unicef Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham visits Swaziland
[Unicef] London/Mbabane -UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham travelled to Swaziland this week to see how 7: The David Beckham UNICEF Fund is helping UNICEF to support and protect HIV-positive children. During his visit Beckham heard and saw how the worst drought in decades - now taking hold of vast swathes of Eastern and Southern Africa - is threatening to wreak havoc on the lives of children and families already made vulnerable by HIV. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 8, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: In the Fight Against HIV, Voices of the Youth Have Power
[The Daily Vox] Knowing that AIDS is the biggest killer of adolescents Sub-Saharan Africa, it's frightening to think of a world where young people are not encouraged to discuss sex and HIV. SIYANDA MOHUTSIWA attended a recent UNICEF conference for adolescents in Mbabane, Swaziland, and was impressed by the courage of young people who speak up on issues that their elders have shied away from for too long. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - May 18, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Namibia: TB in Mines Remains a Health Disaster - Arasa
[New Era] Johannesburg -The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) has proposed a united call of action reiterating that tuberculosis is particularly acute in South Africa and four of its labour-sending neighbours, namely, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, which all have a high per capita TB occurence. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 16, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Seeking a New Farming Revolution
Processing baby vegetables at Sidemane Farm in Swaziland. An EU grant helped local farmers to buy equipment and get training in business management and marketing. Credit: Mantoe Phakathi/IPSBy Kitty StappMay 5 2016 (IPS)As the World Farmers’ Organization meets for its annual conference in Zambia to promote policies that strengthen this critical sector, IPS looks at how farmers across the globe are tackling the interconnected challenges of climate change, market fluctuations, water and land management, and energy access. Women working in their vegetable gardens at the Capanda Agroindustrial Pole in Angola. Althou...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kitty Stapp Tags: Advancing Deserts Africa Aid Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Climate Change Cooperatives Development & Aid Economy & Trade Energy Environment Featured Food & Agriculture Global Headlines Health Inequity Labour Natural Resourc Source Type: news
‘Little Boy’ Devouring African Food
Credit: Anne Holmes/IPSBy Jeff WilliamsMombasa, Kenya, Apr 7 2016 (IPS)There is a ‘Little Boy’ who has nothing to do with the atomic bomb that the United States dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. This time it is about another ‘Little Boy’ who has been devastating the harvests in many regions, especially in Africa. This ‘Little Boy’ (from El Niño in Spanish) is a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific including the coasts of South America. In Latin America the term “El Niño” refers to the Child Jesus, so named because the p...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jeff Williams Tags: Africa Editors' Choice Featured Food & Agriculture Headlines Health Middle East & North Africa Poverty & SDGs Projects TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Africa: Namibians Tolerant of HIV/Aids Sufferers - Report
[New Era] Windhoek -Namibia has been ranked second among African countries with a high level of tolerance for people living with HIV/Aids, below Botswana and ahead of Zimbabwe in third position and Swaziland in fourth position. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 2, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
The prevalence and correlates of physical and sexual violence affecting female sex workers in Swaziland - Berger BO, Grosso A, Adams D, Ketende S, Sithole B, Mabuza XS, Mavimbela MJ, Baral S.
Female sex workers (FSW) have a heightened vulnerability to violence and negative sexual/reproductive health outcomes. Limited research has examined how experiencing physical and sexual violence (PSV) mediates risk for poor health outcomes among FSW in Swa... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Option B+ to prevent maternal transmission of HIV shows rise in women initiating therapy
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) The first findings from a study in the Kingdom of Swaziland on a new approach to reduce mother to child transmission of HIV were presented at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016) in Boston. show that implementation of Option B+ greatly increased the number of women initiating ART and dramatically improved ART coverage among pregnant women. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - February 23, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
