Bill Gates, Britain and other nations commit funds to help treat preventable diseases among world's poorest children.
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The United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS was nothing if not bold. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a global commitment to eliminate AIDS by 2020. "That is our goal – zero new infections, zero stigma and zero AIDS-related deaths," Ban said to a round of applause at the UN General Assembly last week in New York.
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Oley Njie-Mbye, the chief executive officer of Gambia Women's Finance Association (GAWFA), has said that women have effective leadership skills and the ability to manage meager resources.
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An FAO urban horticulture programme in the five main cities of the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken a bite out of chronic malnutrition levels in urban areas and created a surplus with a market value of over $400 million.
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The road to prevention methods based on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs is still fraught with challenges, but recent groundbreaking trial results from this promising new field offer greater hope than previous efforts.
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At least 438 cases of domestic violence were registered from January to June 8, by the Provincial Department of Family and Women Promotion in Huambo, against 390 cases reported in the same period of 2010.
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Female parliamentarians have met with women representatives from districts to discuss how to improve the welfare of women.
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GOVERNMENT in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre Network has embarked on a project aimed at capacitating officials at different levels of ministries in developing gender-sensitive budgets.
The number of female enrolment in schools has registered commendable growth in Northern Red Sea region over the past 20 years since independence as a result of the concerted effort of teachers, parents and administrators, stated Mr.
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There is a touch of gold fever in the small western Madagascan town of Ankavandra and schoolgirls are being affected.
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Tahiri and her baby daughter have joined a courtyard full of women sheltering their babies from the midday sun at a health centre in Ankareira, near Madagascar's southern tip.
A global plan launched today at the United Nations seeks to eliminate new HIV infections among children and keep their mothers alive, in an effort to save millions of lives across the developing world.
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The rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission has fallen to 3.5 percent according to a national survey by the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and researchers say the virtual elimination of vertical HIV transmission may now be possible by 2015.
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Cameroon has pledged to reduce its maternal deaths by 75 percent from 1990 levels, but compared with that year, more women are now dying. Last year the government joined a regional campaign to accelerate progress on this key development goal.
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Violence against women has been recognized internationally as a major violation of woman human rights.
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Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi ordered mass rapes and gave troops Viagra-type drugs to encourage sex attacks, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo claimed Wednesday.
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Women in southern Africa will soon move a step closer to having equal rights and opportunities with men when a regional gender protocol is ratified in the coming weeks.
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The wars in Libya and the Congo highlight the vexing problem of rape as a military weapon.
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The forced return from Qatar to Libya of a woman who had made complaints about gang rapes in Tripoli and was later recognized as a refugee violates international law, the United Nations refugee agency said today.
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In 1998, HIV/AIDS activist Gugu Dlamini was beaten to death near KwaMashu township outside Durban after publicly disclosing her HIV-positive status. Her death, an example of the depth of HIV stigma, shook South Africa. Dlamini’s death almost destroyed her daughter, Mandisa, who was just 13 years old when her mother died. Now 25, Mandisa spoke about her experience as part of this year’s Nkosi Johnson memorial lecture, named for South Africa’s youngest HIV activist who died in 2001, at the SA AIDS 2011 Conference.