More than 2.4 million people around the world are currently being exploited by human traffickers for sexual or forced labour, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
A court in Livingstone has awarded 2,000 US dollars in damages for mental and emotional anguish to each of two ex-officers in Zambia’s air force who say they were tested and treated for HIV without their knowledge.
Maternal and child health projects around the world will receive a fresh push from a new 1.5 billion US dollars project over the next five years. The United Nations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the joint pledge on Monday at the Women Deliver summit in Washington, billed as the largest-ever conference on women’s health.
A vaginal ring that releases antiretroviral drugs into women’s systems to prevent HIV transmission during sex will be tested for the first time in Africa. The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) announced on Tuesday that it will launch a placebo-controlled trial of the ring with 280 HIV-negative women in the southern and eastern Africa.
The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it will spend over 4.2 million US dollars supplying contraceptives to Uganda.
An Islamic Sharia court in the Nigerian city of Kaduna has banned online debates on social networking sites surrounding the country’s first case of wrist amputation as punishment for theft.
One of the main contenders in Sudan’s upcoming presidential election has withdrawn from the campaign blaming the continuing conflict in the Darfur region and “electoral irregularities”.
Tests of anti-malaria drugs used in Africa have revealed that patients from both public and private health practices could be getting sub-standard treatment. Experts examined 200 samples of anti-malaria drugs from 10 African countries.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has described an internationally condemned anti-homosexuality draft law as a sensitive foreign policy issue which requires further consultation. Museveni spoke about the topic for the first time yesterday at the ruling National Resistance Movement party’s executive conference at State House in Entebbe. He called for more dialogue with European and American critics, saying the country’s foreign policy interests need to be taken into account. Proponents of the bill had previously vowed to resist foreign criticism.
Press freedom in Kenya is under threat, according to media owners, after the government reintroduced measures to limit press freedom despite earlier agreeing to water down proposals. The new laws include provisions for censoring content, limiting talk about sex on FM radio stations, banning cross-media ownership and setting rules for political coverage during general elections.
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