February 02, 2012
Africa: Empowering Women to Fight HIV
What makes a young African doctor decide to devote her career to helping women fight HIV? Dr. Sengeziwe Sibeko is a 37-year-old medical researcher with a degree in obstetrics and… Read more »
Africa: Back to the Lab
Professor Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (Caprisa) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Columbia University in the… Read more »
Africa: No Changing Mindset on Contraception 'Overnight'
Dr. Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and associate scientific director of the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (Caprisa).… Read more »
Africa: No Time to 'Give Up' on HIV-Fighting Gel
Africans tracking the worldwide HIV epidemic have not found much to celebrate since Aids began ravaging the continent 30 years ago, but researchers are optimistic that they are… Read more »
February 01, 2012
Africa: AU Urged to Recognise Women's Role in Trade
Delegates who recently attended a gender summit in Addis Ababa hope the African Union Summit on Intra-African Trade that was also held there will take their recommendations into… Read more »
January 14, 2012
Africa: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue
Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the promise of sustainable development will be revisited again at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on… Read more »
December 27, 2011
Africa: Malaria Scientist Does Groundbreaking Research
At the Malaria Forum hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October, the latest findings on what is currently the most viable malaria vaccine candidate in medical… Read more »
December 14, 2011
Kenya: Young Men Bend Tradition With Fathering Skills
The repeated hooting of the Ostrich bus announces the break of dawn in Nguruman, a pastoralist village about 150 kilometers south of Nairobi near the Tanzania border. It also stirs… Read more »
December 08, 2011
Africa: Freedom Songs Sung to a Climate Change Tune
"This land belongs to women, they will never tire!" Chanted in Zulu, this South African freedom song from the anti-apartheid struggle was reworked into a protest song against… Read more »
December 06, 2011
Africa: Women Impacted by Climate Change - But Not as Victims
"I remember when we didn't have rainfall and my mother had to pay my school fees, so when there was no yield from crops she had to sell her fridge in order for me to go to school",… Read more »
November 30, 2011
Africa: In Zimbabwe, Change Like a River in Aids Fight
When social worker Charakupa Ngwerume was named by the village chief to serve as a counselor on a customary court, his first priority was to campaign for the nomination of female… Read more »
October 14, 2011
Africa: Tapping the Potential of Women Entrepreneurs
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton admits she is surprised when she speaks with male economists and government leaders who doubt the ability of women to contribute to economic… Read more »
October 04, 2011
Liberia: Collecting Stories to Heal a Nation
When journalist Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna returned to her native Liberia in 2003, she found a country that was a shell of its former self. As the nation sought to rebuild,… Read more »
September 30, 2011
Malawi: Engaging Local Leaders to Save the Lives of Mothers
Joyce Banda is Malawi's first female vice president. Before taking office in 2009, Banda served as a member of parliament, minister of Gender, Child Welfare and Community Services,… Read more »
September 02, 2011
Somalia: Let Somalis Manage Aid for Development, Doctor Says
Dr. Hawa Abdi is a woman of many firsts, including being Somalia's first female gynecologist and establishing one of the country's first NGOs. Along with her daughters, Deqa and… Read more »
August 29, 2011
South Africa: No More Loan Sharks
There are 10 people in Noamen Nongezi's household, including her husband and their three children, two children orphaned when her two sisters died of Aids, a child that her husband… Read more »
South Africa: The Woman Who Woke From the Dead
Nearly 10 years ago Zandile Malgas was rushed to hospital, declared dead, then woke up to find herself in a morgue. At this point she began to take her HIV status seriously, and… Read more »
South Africa: Savings Groups Help Rural Households Affected by HIV/Aids
A poor and HIV-positive South African may well hear advice about "living positively" with HIV, but this is guidance that many find impossible to follow. Read more »
August 12, 2011
South Africa: Poor Make Money by Saving in Groups
Bongiwe Dlamini thinks back to the financial crisis she faced a few years ago, a time when she was so deep in debt that she could not even buy for groceries for her family. Read more »
May 06, 2011
Nigeria: Beating Grim Odds of Childbirth
An expectant mother in northern Nigeria faces higher risks in childbirth than in most any other place in the world, according to international public health surveys. Read more »
Africa: 'Tellers and Cashiers' of Africa's Wealth Are Key to Development
When it comes to development policies, alongside all the statistics of hunger and need, and the totals of dollars spent, it must be remembered that what matters most is that… Read more »
March 08, 2011
Liberia: Technology Eyed to Improve Lives of Women
In the densely populated community of Paynesville on the outskirts of Liberia's capital, scores of women are doing hard labor. Read more »
Africa: Empower Women to Realize the African Dream
It is hard not to be inspired by the widely-recognized economic growth story of Africa: more than a decade of robust growth for a region that has become a credible destination for… Read more »
February 14, 2011
Sudan: Rebecca Garang Promotes Accountability for New State
'Mama Rebecca', widow of John Garang - the charismatic leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and commander of its army - welcomes the opportunity for southern… Read more »
February 02, 2011
Equatorial Guinea: Rights Group Appeals to Obiang to Uphold AU Principles
The African Union's choice of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang as its new chairperson challenges his government to fulfill the organization's standards for democracy… Read more »