Stories: Women
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Young Zambian Women and Their Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Africa, I’m sure you know, is an expansive continent, but did you know it is filled with 1.3 billion youths between the ages of 15 – 24? Experts have called the growing number of youths in Africa the “youth bulge” and everyone from multinational companies to governments are taking notice. Many positive stories are emerging from the continent...
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Love Games and Safe Love Clubs
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The Face of the HIV Epidemic Is the Face of a Woman
As I was preparing for this trip, I read a lot about the specific challenges for women in dealing with the risk of HIV, especially in countries like Zambia, where the status of women is low and they are generally dependent on their husbands (or lovers) for their income and a roof over their head. It is no big...
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Lusaka’s “Love Games” Tackles Sex, Love, and HIV
In Zambia, where HIV/AIDS rates are some of the highest in the world, Zambia’s Ministry of Health has been thinking outside of the box beyond pamphlets, brochures and signs on the sides of in-town buses in order to spread HIV/AIDS education and awareness. They have stepped into the proverbial limelight with a weekly television series, Love...
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From Mosquito Nets to Moisturiser: The London Team Tackling Global Health and Development
Academic and medical research lies at the core of the advocacy and consciousness-raising that global health journalists undertake, although the details of their vital labour, fieldwork and analysis are often unseen by lay readers. Sometimes academic and medical rigour is necessary to advocate, without polemic, for what you know to be true - even obvious - at the social,...
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Malala’s Forgotten Sisters
At only 12, Nazia lives in expectation of the worst. As I step through the doorway of the humble compound her parents share with two other families in the Pashtun lands of northwest Pakistan, her small, fragile body trembles unwittingly. She knew I was coming, but learned too young to trust no one. Nazia was only 5 when her father married her...
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Ministries of Health in Africa Are Ministries of Diseases, Says Former Vice President of Uganda
Dr Specioza Kazibwe, an Ugandan Surgeon and politician, recently described ministries of health in Africa as ministries of diseases. She made this statement during the #GlobalPower Women Network Africa High Level Meeting that took place in Abuja, Nigeria, last week. The UNAIDS supported event, which was themed, “Accelerating the implementation of the global and regional commitments for Women and...
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Accelerating Commitment and Action to Tackle Issues Affecting Women and Girls in Africa
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, while giving her remark during the first day of the #GlobalPower Women Network had recommended that women every where take up the responsibility of ensuring the achievement of goals set to accelerate actions on issues affecting women and girls. Gender Inequality as driver of HIV The second day of the High Level Meeting...
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Women Leaders Gather in Nigeria to Tackle Women’s and Girls’ Issues
Today in Africa, women in power have considered it important to synergize and address issues affecting women and girls in Africa, said Professor Viola Onwuliri, during her opening remark. Professor Onwuliri is Nigeria’s minister of foreign affairs and soon-to-be president of GlobalPower Women Network Africa (GPWNA). Here is a reminder of why this matters. There are about 23.5...
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George W. Bush Praises Zambia’s HIV/AIDS National Efforts
In less than a month I will join nine other new media journalists on a reporting trip to Zambia as an International Reporting Zambia Fellow. We will be charged with learning more about HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis and their affects on the Zambian citizens, report on the problems and Zambia’s national and community-led efforts to...