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Resource: Youth InfoNet Issue 43David Hock *Greetings,The Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG) is pleased to announce Youth InfoNet 43 found online at: http://www.fhi.org/en/Youth/YouthNet/Publications/YouthInfoNet/43.htm . This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 14 program resources with Web links, and 25 summaries of published research articles, including several multiple-country studies, from Bangladesh, Botswa

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Publication: UNGASS report on HIV and AIDS UNAIDS *[Mods note: A member of Partners Zimbabwe requested if we could share the Zimbabwe HIV and AIDS Estimates report 2007 with him/her. We, however, felt that it would be good to share the report with all the members of Partners Zimbabwe. We apologise to those who are seeing this report for the second time but we guess it would be of value to others who had not yet seen it.Below is Section (1.2) extracted from the United Natio

Eyes and Ears After Cape Town: Where do we go from here to stop TB? Tayson Mudarikiri, Zimbabwe An article from the HDN Key Correspondent Team 7 March 2008 Send Comment Last year’s World Conference on Lung Health ended in Cape Town on November 12, 2007. The first to be held in Africa , the conference attracted a record 3000 delegates.Among these delegates were 200 activists and a hundred media representatives.

Comment: Africa: Why HIV and AIDS is Ravaging Continent (2)Anonymous The extent to which HIV and AIDS has ravaged Africa has been necessitated by many factors, poverty and the lack of a culture of caution included. For me, the factors that have predisposed us as Africans to HIV and AIDS are structural, the chief culprits being poverty and culture. In addition, we also have many programmes that sometimes give contradictory messages due to preferences by some funding agencies.

Spotlight Challenges of responding to drug-resistant TB Tayson Mudarikiri, Zimbabwe An article from the HDN Key Correspondent Team 7 March 2008 Send Comment A young woman in Malawi has a cough. She will probably ignore it, hoping that it will go away. But she is wrong. Soon, the cough will get worse and she will have to go to a distant clinic for help. Upon arriving at the clinic, she will be wrongly diagnosed wit

Comment: The designer vagina - the new way to keep your man from straying? (1)Munyaradzi Chimwara I read with disappointment about women in South Africa who are having surgery on their vagina just to please their men.It is good to be innovative in order to please one's partner sexually - but I think that going as far as getting surgery done is a bit on the extreme. Why should it be the responsibility of women "of spicing things up" so that men do not stray out of

Spotlight HIV: Dignity and disclosure Fungai Machirori, Zimbabwe An article from the HDN Key Correspondent Team 18 March 2008 Send Comment A bus driver and one of his passengers had the following conversation as they waited for the vehicle to fill up:I’d rather die in a car crash than ever die of AIDS, said the passenger.Why? asked the driver.At least if I died in a car accident, I’d die instantly and without too much pa

Comment: Africa: Why HIV and AIDS is Ravaging Continent (1)Anonymous *I think Richard Guest's assertion that AIDS is ravaging Africa because Africans don't have a culture of caution is too simplistic as to be false. There is actually more to that - I strongly feel poverty is the issue or something else that has to do with the nature of the virus. I once heard it was manufactured somewhere in a laboratory - I don't want to go into that debate now. However, as someone who once s

Perspective: The designer vagina - the new way to keep your man from straying?Fungai Machirori17 March 2008 * I just read this in a South African newspaper and couldn’t keep it to myself. Apparently, South African women are following a now international trend in which cosmetic genital surgery allows them to create ‘designer vaginas’ in order to increase sexual pleasure or reduce pain from intercourse. For a fee of between R6 000 – 15 000, women can undergo surgery to r