Community reports from Zambia

News: Prison-like hospitals for drug-resistant TB patientsIRIN/PlusNews25 March 2008 *JOHANNESBURG (PlusNews) — Another hospital breakout in South Africa by drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients desperate to spend the holidays with their families has some public health experts questioning whether forced isolation is either the most effective or humane way to treat such patients.On Thursday, 25 patients with multi drug-resistant (MDR) TB and eight with extensively dru

Comment: Why Women or Girls? (1)Believe Dhliwayo Love or hate this fact "Women are in streets looking for money to survive.” If men were responsible we would not be having women in streets looking for money for livelihood. Sex workers have rights to live and what they do is being in the streets to solicit for money to buy food for children of a certain men who refuses to be responsible.If there were no men to buy sex we would not have girls and women in streets. It’s unf

Comment: Africa: Why HIV and AIDS is Ravaging Continent (5)Innocent Mukeredzi After following this discussion and view points, I want to agree with Believe's summation though I would want to differ on the second sum of limited education. It is common knowledge that the majority of those denialists are the most educated especially men. From clinical experience and evidence based information, the majority of people who have managed to disclose their HIV status are those wi

Perspective: Why Women or Girls?Margaret Namaganda *[Mods note: This is a cross-posting from Partners Uganda, particularly found online at: http://www.healthdev.org/viewmsg.aspx?msgid=4d49b53c-f1fe-4edb-a330-23a87de732e8 This looks like the same scenario in Harare and this posting is applicable in the Zimbabwean context. Why only women are arrested and not men? Member’s comments/responses are encouraged! ] *Global effort for Women against AIDS,

Comment: The designer vagina - the new way to keep your man from straying? (3)Linda Mapisa Well, I think the idea of cosmetic genital surgery is not as bad as it is being made to appear as long as it remains voluntary. Why I say this is because it is not mandatory for one to undergo this kind of surgery as compared to other practices that compel people to go for virginity tests and genital circumcision in some African countries.Why should we however waste our precious ener

Comment: The designer vagina - the new way to keep your man from straying? (2)Douglas Mutanga For man not to stray away there is need for sex education. My little experience of 16 years in marriage has taught me that in my life cycle stages there are things that I should practice in order to revive intimacy. I would opt for "brain surgery" rather than the surgeries prescribed today, for sexual satisfaction can be beyond the physical prowess. The mind is key - hence sex

News: Zimbabwe Gets US$4,5m to Assist Vulnerable ChildrenallAfrica.com25 March 2008 *HARARE (The Herald) - Zimbabwe has received a US$4,5 million grant from the Japanese government through UNICEF-Zimbabwe and the World Food Programme Zimbabwe to assist vulnerable children in the country. Under the grant, WFP got US$2,5 million to feed children in food insecure districts of Zimbabwe and for targeted interventions, including home-based care and those on anti-retroviral drugs.

Comment: Africa: Why HIV and AIDS is Ravaging Continent (4)Joseph Chikowero *Thanks for bringing up this important subject. We often discuss strategies to contain HIV and AIDS but rarely discuss what fuelled the problem in the first place so we can reorient ourselves.One factor I consider significant in this discussion is IGNORANCE. If I remember well, many of us did not take the reality of AIDS seriously throughout the 80s and much of the 90s. That's something like 15

News: Women Key to Millennium Development Goals, Says MigiroallAfrica.com14 March 2008 NEW YORK (allAfrica.com) - Efforts to meet international development goals must focus on empowering women, Deputy UN Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said in a speech delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York."Empowering women is not just an end in itself; it is a prerequisite for reaching all of the Millennium Development Goals ญ our common vision to build a bett

Comment: Africa: Why HIV and AIDS is Ravaging Continent (3)Believe Dhliwayo I missed the initial communiqu้ of this topic but I would like to respond to this complex subject in this way, I totally agree with the previous writer (http://www.healthdev.org/viewmsg.aspx?msgid=03d79712-0017-4865-8e24-b4ac55a633db) in everyway. I have travelled so much and I have come to understand that it’s beyond JUST our culture and poverty that makes HIV and AIDS ravage our continent.