A new study published in this month’s Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that neither wealth nor poverty is driving the spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa.
A month-long sexual abstinence campaign in Africa could reduce new HIV infections by up to 45 per cent, according to researchers.
If the Criminal Law Bill currently is being deliberated by the Lagos State House of Assembly sails through, then many parents in the state would face various prison terms for beating up their kids.
If the Criminal Law Bill currently is being deliberated by the Lagos State House of Assembly sails through, then many parents in the state would face various prison terms for beating up their kids.
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.
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