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S. Africa Initiation deaths a big problem, doctor says JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- This is a grim time of year for a hospital in the rolling hills of South Africa's Eastern Cape province, where mattresses are laid  ...

Initiation deaths in South Africa a health problem, doctor says JOHANNESBURG — This is a grim time of year for a hospital in the rolling hills of South Africa's Eastern Cape province, where mattresses are laid on floors to  ... Our mission is to provide the best information on social exclusion worldwide

Farmers' lobby pushes for more food production in region The East African Farmers' Federation (EAFF) Chairman, Philip Kiriro said this in Morogoro last week during a workshop organised by the Network of Farmers  ...

AIDS-related deaths fallen by 40% “Countries in eastern and southern Africa are making great strides in responding to HIV. This is good news fewer people are dying of AIDS and fewer are  ...

UN Hails Drop in AIDS-Related Deaths in Africa JOHANNESBURG — The United Nations' AIDS agency is hailing what officials describe as significant progress in the fight against the epidemic in eastern and  ...

Amnesty to Strengthen Human Rights Work in East Africa Nairobi — The global human rights organisation, Amnesty International has announced that it will in October this year open a regional office in the Kenyan  ...

A Ferry Trip to Ease Your Mind East Africa : A Ferry Trip to Ease Your Mind ... Eastern Uganda, water transport is a risky venture, characterized by wrecked or capsized canoes when crossing to  ...

Rebels in eastern Congo face UN deadline to hand in weapons (CNN) -- Rebels in an unstable part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have until Thursday afternoon to hand in their weapons to U.N. peacekeepers or risk  ...

Burundi promoting its business opportunities to South African SMEs During his speech he highlighted that the Burundian civil war, which lasted from 1993 to 2005, meant that the small East African country fell behind on its  ...

Port of Salalah earns global recognition According to the study, the port has also been successful in bagging a number of high positions in various categories in the Europe/Middle East / Africa   ...

A Bit Of Thought Makes Finding Out Medical Risks Less Scary As many as 55 percent of people who get tested for the HIV virus never return to get their test results. People like Angelina Jolie, who took a genetic test to  ...

Zuma and Theron joins hands against HIV /Aids JOHANNESBURG - President Jacob Zuma has welcomed Charlize Theron's support in the fight to curb the HIV and Aids epidemic in South Africa. Zuma and the  ...

HIV -positive Calgary man faces 4th sex assault charge CALGARY -- The HIV -positive Calgary man accused of having unprotected sex with three women now faces allegations from a fourth. John Joseph McNamara  ...

Lovoka Toasts The UN's Global Outreach Campaign To Promote ... True to its South African heritage, Lovoka USA is an active supporter of the LGBT community in the US. Recent support included being a sponsor at Los  ...

Son of Ghana independence leader says gays must be tolerated Dr. Sekou Nkurmah, son of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, has spoken out against anti- gay laws and persecution of LGBTs in the West African nation.

Marking a Civil Rights Milestone, Elitism Is Robbing LGBT ... 6, 1965, was intended to remove the many barriers to African Americans ' ... As in the black civil rights movement, there beats strongly at the heart of the LGBT   ...

Don Lemon Reminds Me of Sad Similarity Between Black , Gay ... Lemon dehumanized the African - American community by reducing it to stereotypes, much like the religious right does to the LGBT community. It's something that  ...

Drop In AIDS-Related Deaths In Eastern, Southern Africa Due To ... "Getting to Zero: the HIV epidemic in the eastern and southern Africa ," the agency said "[t]he number of [AIDS-related] deaths fell from 1.3 million to 800,000 per  ...

Gays are abnormal but must be tolerated - Sekou Dr. Nkrumah, who says “for now the door is closed on homosexuality and homosexual ... Recently, some Clergy in Ghana condemned South African Archbishop  ...

Tutu slammed over gay comments Johannesburg - African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) leader the Rev ... and that he finds fault with Scriptures that teach that a homosexual lifestyle is a sin  ...

UN Hails Drop in Aids-Related Deaths UNAIDS estimates that some 5.6 million South Africans are infected with HIV . South African Health Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi said he was optimistic,  ...

Govt to Boost SA's Low Breastfeeding Rate To achieve this rate, however, HIV -exposed infants must receive a daily dose of the drug and must be exclusively breast fed. South Africa has one of the lowest  ...

SA an 'outstanding model', says UNAIDS report South Africa is an “outstanding model” of what can be achieved in the fight against HIV /AIDS, according to Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United  ...

USF professor receives grant to study ways to reduce HIV /AIDS risk ... AIDS.gov reports that of the more than 1 million people living with HIV in the United States, 46 percent are African -Americans. In addition, young black women  ...

Tanzania's Long Battle With HIV -Aids 1.6 million people in Tanzania are HIV positive - almost six percent of the population. But the country is managing to contain the disease with the help of drug  ...