|
|
The Gateway to Health Information For Africa |
MADAGASCAR: Ambitious family planning goals
ANDAVADOAKA, 23 July 2008 (IRIN) - Being an exhausted mother of 10 children by your early thirties is not unusual in rural Madagascar, but a movement is now underway to try and provide women with a contraceptive choice.
"I often get women in the ....
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Condoms catching on
SÃO TOMÉ, 23 July 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - No one expected that the reaction to empty condom dispensers on São Tomé and Príncipe would be so angry.
"I thought the country had run out of condoms - you people are fouling up too much," Palmira Torres, the ....
ZAMBIA: Mary Muyunda, "The school should be a safe place for all the pupils"
LUSAKA , 23 July 2008 (IRIN) - In a landmark ruling on 15 July, the High Court in Lusaka, capital of Zambia, ordered the government to pay about US$13,000 compensation to a 15-year-old school girl raped by her class teacher. Mary Muyunda* brought a c....
Birth weight 'sets future health'
Wednesday, 23 July 2008 - Blood vessel changes linked to poor health later in life can be spotted within a few years in boys born small, say scientists.
Eight-year-olds who were smaller at birth were more likely to have "vascular resistance", repo....
BURUNDI: Human rights record "shows no improvement"
BUJUMBURA, 23 July 2008 (IRIN) - At least 400 people were killed in the first quarter of 2008, which indicates that Burundi's human rights record has failed to improve this year, according to Iteka, a rights group.
All the country's provinces wer....
UGANDA: Appeal for help for LRA victims, ex-rebels
GULU, 23 July 2008 (IRIN) - Impoverished victims of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and former rebels being reintegrated into the community in northern Uganda need urgent support as the region recovers from more than two decades of conflict, an offi....
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
