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News: Mozambique: Love, or the next best thing, for sale [Partners Zambia]
News: Mozambique: Love, or the next best thing, for sale
PlusNews
13 October 2008
MAPUTO— When classes finish at Francisco Manyanga Secondary School in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, most teachers and students head for the bus while others walk home. J๚lia*, 16, a 10th-grade student, gets into a luxury car, where a man who looks to be in his 40s waits for her. The man is not her father, but her boyfriend, Lucas*.
It began one rainy day in March when he offere
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Comment: Is the pen mightier than the virus? [Partners Zambia]
Comment: Is the pen mightier than the virus?
Miriam Banda
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[Mods note: This is the first member comment to the posting that can be found at: http://www.healthdev.org/viewmsg.aspx?msgid=2b56cbb0-3f61-44af-8a3e-d34d739a7074.]
Is the pen mightier than the virus?! I would have thought it was but I totally agree with the views expressed in the article. I have spoken to media personnel at different fora even on a one to one basis and yes, they are fearful about not only testing but
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Action: HIFA2015: Healthcare Information for All by 2015 [Partners Zambia]
Action: HIFA2015: Healthcare Information for All by 2015
Christine Kanyengo
THE HIFA2015 GOAL
By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider
THE HIFA2015 DISCUSSION GROUP
The Group provides a neutral discussion space for all those with an interest in the creation, exchange and use of relevant, practical healthcare information for family carers, primary health workers, and district-level healthcare providers in develop
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News: Africa: �Sexually-transmitted grades� kills quality education [Partners Zambia]
News: Africa: ‘Sexually-transmitted grades’ kills quality education
IRINNEWS
10 October 2008
DAKAR— Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers.
From ‘Sexually Transmitted Grades’ to ‘BF’, or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual activities with teachers, this slang hints at the prevalence of exploitation in Africa’s l
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News: Male circumcision - a gamble for women? [Partners Zambia]
News: Global: Male circumcision - a gamble for women?
PlusNews
8 August 2008
[Mods note: This is one of the news items that came out of the International AIDS Conference that was held in August this year. Read on… comments are welcome].
MEXICO CITY— In March 2007, the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS issued recommendations that gave the green light to male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy, after studies in Kisumu, Kenya and the township of Orang
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News: Southern Africa: Is the pen mightier than the virus? [Partners Zambia]
News: Southern Africa: Is the pen mightier than the virus?
PlusNews
16 October 2008
JOHANNESBURG— Isn't it time that journalists started taking HIV/AIDS beyond the newsroom and into the bedroom? In many newsrooms the highly politicised topic of HIV/AIDS remains just that - political. Journalists aren't immune to HIV/AIDS; they just don't talk about it.
But they are just as vulnerable, especially in Southern Africa, the hardest hit region in the world. "Journali
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Action: Free video tapes on the need for new HIV prevention methods for women [Partners Zambia]
Action: Free video tapes on the need for new HIV prevention methods for women
Global Campaign for Microbicides
Dear AF-AIDS members,
Please circulate to your networks.
Kimberly was 21 and in college in the U.S. Little did she know that her boyfriend was HIV positive? After donating blood she learned that her decision to not use a condom with him one night would change her life forever.
Just across the ocean in the U.K., a similar decision would leave
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News: More Training, Improved Tools Needed for African Health Workers Performing Male Circumcision [Partners Zambia]
News: More Training, Improved Tools Needed for African Health Workers Performing Male Circumcision, Study Finds
Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report
3 September, 2008
African health workers performing male circumcision in an effort to curb the spread of HIV need better tools and more training to avoid high rates of complications, according to a World Health Organization study published Monday in the WHO Bulletin, Reuters Health reports. The authors conducted the study am
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Comment: Impact of early marriages on the girl child [Partners Zambia]
Comment: Impact of early marriages on the girl child
Maboshe Patrick
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[Mods note: How would you describe the connection between early marriages and multiple concurrent partnerships?
How prevalent is the practice in Zambia and what action should be taken to discourage it?
Please share your views!]
Dear PZam members,
Early marriages in rural communities of Zambia are posing a threat to the education of the girl child. There are no laws to punish people w
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Comment: HIV decline (3) [Partners Zambia]
Comment: HIV decline (3)
Muliyunda Lilembalemba
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[This is a further comment to a posting on the proper use of condoms available online at: http://www.healthdev.org/viewmsg.aspx?msgid=36c7c503-bb48-4474-82c5-927568d5ae18
More comments are welcome!]
It is so sad to learn of what is going on just near Zambia's capital city only six miles away from state house. It is indeed shocking to hear reports of people still re-using condoms in our community.
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Perspective: MCP in Zambia: Male circumcision - A conversation with a UTH doctor. [Partners Zambia]
Perspective: MCP in Zambia: Male circumcision- A conversation with a UTH doctor.
Maboshe Patrick
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Dear PZam members,
Male circumcision is practiced in many cultures and religions all over the world. In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, it is a birth ritual express and a rite of passage to adolescence. Young boys undergo circumcision usually without anesthesia at traditional ceremonies to show that they are coming of age and to their bravery. In clinical settings, it is a
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Speak Your World: Home-based carers support Zambians living with HIV [Partners Zambia]
Speak Your World
Home-based carers support Zambians living with HIV
Violet Mengo, Zambia
An article from the HDN Key Correspondent Team
10 October 2008
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Faustina Chishimba, 38, is one of millions of Zambians with HIV not taking antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). Instead she receives comfort and support from Anastasias Malama, a Family Health Trust (FHT) home-based care worker.Ms Malama visits Ms Chishimba every wee
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Speak Your World: ART adherence failing in Zambia due to lack of food [Partners Zambia]
Speak Your World
ART adherence failing in Zambia due to lack of food
Violet Mengo, Zambia
An article from the HDN Key Correspondent Team
10 October 2008
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Being sick is hard enough but adhering to treatment regimes can be just as difficult, particularly when you don’t have enough food.A regular food supply is vital for people living with HIV as nutrition plays an important role in improving their general stand
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News: Kenya: Rising demand for male circumcision [Partners Zambia]
News: Kenya: Rising demand for male circumcision
PlusNews
9 October 2008
KISUMU— Health facilities in Nyanza Province in western Kenya are struggling to meet the demand for medical male circumcisions since politicians threw their weight behind efforts to promote the procedure as a way of reducing HIV infections.
The campaign initially faced opposition by community elders of the ethnic Luo community that makes up the bulk of the province's inhabitants and do
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Action: Action: Action Alert on the Round 9 [Partners Zambia]
Action: Action: Action Alert on the Round 9
Civil Society Action Team (CSAT)
Civil Society Action Team (CSAT) Action Alert in response to the launch of Round 9 Call for Proposals on October 1, 2008 by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund.)
This CSAT Action Alert provides information and practical suggestions for actions that civil society can take in relation to the Round 9 Call for Proposals: http://theglobalfund.org/en/rounds/9
Tw
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Action: Call for Papers - SAfAIDS News [Partners Zambia]
Action: Call for Papers - SAfAIDS News
Vivienne Kernohan
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The deadline for submission of articles for the next issue is October 15th, 2008.
SAfAIDS News and Noticias SIDA invite papers or articles for the next issue of the newsletter, which targets:
- Professionals working in the HIV and AIDS sector
- Staff in ASOs, NGOs, FBOs, government bodies, United Nations agencies and universities in the region.
- Policy makers.
- Community based organisations
Areas of p
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Vacancy: Global Programmes Manager - World AIDS Campaign [Partners Zambia]
Vacancy: Global Programmes Manager - World AIDS Campaign
Bianca Marks
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Position: Global Programmes Manager
Organization: World AIDS Campaign
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Application deadline: 24th October 2008
Duration: 2 years – renewable, dependent on performance and
funding.
Reporting to: Executive Director
Salary: Negotiable
Submission instruction: The World AIDS Campaign is an equal opportunity employer dedicated and focused on diversity.
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Spotlight: Displacement and distance compromise ART access in Kapiri Mposhi [Partners Zambia]
Spotlight
Displacement and distance compromise ART access in Kapiri Mposhi
Youngson Ndawana
An article from the HDN Key Correspondent Team
8 October 2008
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About 20 people living with HIV displaced from rural Kapiri Mposhi have complained that a lack of food and the long distance to the only antiretroviral therapy (ART) centre are making it hard for them to adhere to the treatment.
Home-based carers have also complained
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Action: MCP in Zambia: Theme II: Introduction to Male circumcision and Moderators� Questions [Partners Zambia]
Action: MCP in Zambia: Theme II: Introduction to Male circumcision and Moderators’ Questions
Partners Zambia eForum Resource Team
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[Mods note: Contributions can be based on the following moderators’ question:
1. Based on your experiences, how successful has the male circumcision roll-out plan been in your community?
2. What challenges has your community faced in implementing the male circumcision roll-out plan?
Please share your views!]
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Benchmark: Zambia on track to meet health-focused MDGs [Partners Zambia]
Benchmark
Zambia on track to meet health-focused MDGs
Violet Mengo
An article from the HDN Key Correspondent Team
8 October 2008
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As the countdown to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015 continues, Zambia is reporting remarkable progress in the area of child and maternal health, and in particular immunization.
The countrys Ministry of Health has been working with partners such as WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA
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