Fellows & Editors
Andrew Green
- Trip:
- Durban 2016
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- South Africa
- Year:
- 2016
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Andrew Green is a freelance reporter based in East Africa. He reports on a wide variety of issues, including human rights, health, politics and historical memory. He has written for Foreign Policy, The New Republic and The Washington Post, among many other outlets, and also served as Voice of America’s bureau chief in South Sudan.
Green was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from South Sudan in 2012 and Mozambique in 2014.
Stories
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The World Spent $1 Billion Less on AIDS, Jeopardizing Decades of Progress
The 21st International AIDS Conference convened here last week amid an emerging global consensus that the end to an epidemic that has killed 35 million people might be achievable. Just weeks...
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Funding Shortfall Threatens ‘Test and Treat’ for HIV and AIDS
Global funding shortages and challenges in ensuring adherence to treatment are threatening to delay or even derail new recommendations that all HIV patients begin antiretroviral drug therapy as soon as they are...
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As AIDS Money Shrinks, Who Loses?
As the global public health community gathered in the South African city of Durban this week to talk about the end of AIDS, they were greeted with news that annual international support...
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Obama Dreams of an AIDS-Free Generation
In a 2011 speech at the National Institutes of Health’s rolling campus outside Washington, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a reset of America’s global HIV...
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HIV in Mozambique: Starting, and Staying on, Treatment
Mozambique is fighting to gain control of its HIV epidemic, leading with a plan to strategically enrol substantial numbers of people with HIV in treatment programmes in an effort to end transmission...
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Mozambique Struggles to Contain HIV Epidemic Among Young Women
At their first meeting, the group of 30 young women just eyed Nousa Winica warily. When she asked a question, they hurriedly dropped their gaze. It would be, she quickly realized, a struggle...
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PEPFAR Strategy Shift Aims to Get Ahead of Mozambique’s Epidemic
Mozambique is at the outset of recalibrating its HIV response, following a global shift in approach by one of the primary donors to the country’s AIDS response — the...
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South Sudan: Xenophobia Emerges Amidst Local Unemployment
Photo: United to End Genocide. An outdoor market in Juba, South Sudan. It wasn't the fire in Juba's Konyo Konyo market last March that took Robert Ongua's goods. Like...
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Sudan Conflict Exacerbates Food Crisis
There's no soda water in the Wau market. It's an easy thing to overlook in the bustling heart of this western South Sudanese town, since the basics are still in...
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Going South: Turmoil in the World’s Newest Country
On a hot evening in March, with the temperature still over 100 degrees, I met a veteran journalist named Jacob Akol in South Sudan's capital, Juba. South Sudan is the...
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Health Care in South Sudan at a Crossroads
This was supposed to be a year of transition for South Sudan's health system. After last July's independence, the country--shored up by international donors--was set to move away from emergency...
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Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood
As the process of reintegrating South Sudan's child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers...
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Displaced from Abyei, Struggling to Survive
Tens of thousands of people forced to flee violence along the border dividing Sudan from its southern neighbor are now confronted by difficulties of life in displacement camps. Long after the 2005 peace...
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South Sudan HIV Treatment Hurt by Lack of Money
In South Sudan, tens of thousands of HIV/AIDS patients are eligible to start anti-retroviral therapy to treat the disease. But the country's main source of funding for the drugs -...
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Many South Sudanese Unable to Return Home
A woman stands outside her home in Wunchuei, near the contested region of Abyei, Sudan and South Sudan's new and undefined border. Teresa Adut Akol's new home is a...
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Latrines Critical to Keeping Kids in South Sudan’s Schools
Photo: Andrew Green/IPS Before Bor B Primary School built latrines on the school grounds (pictured in background), students would leave during their break and not return. Before Bor B Primary School...
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South Sudan Closer to Being Polio-Free
South Sudan officials are hopeful the country will soon be declared polio-free, as the latest round of nationwide polio immunizations wraps up. On the brink of being polio-free Before 2008, the area that...
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Saving Mothers’ Lives One Midwife at a Time in South Sudan
Martha Borete Angela is a first-year student in a programme for midwives at the Catholic Health Training Institute South Sudan. Photo: Andrew Green/IPS Martha Borete Angela's gaze sinks to the...
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South Sudan Inches Closer to Eradicating Guinea Worm
Photo: Reuters A guinea worm emerges from the leg of a South Sudanese girl in Juba. South Sudan, the world's newest country, is on the brink of its first health-care success....
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