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Faith groups in Kenya seek to strengthen HIV/AIDS strategies

Faith groups in Kenya seek to strengthen HIV/AIDS strategies

Source:Episcopal News Service By Fredrick Nzwili, November 29, 2011 [Ecumenical News International, Nairobi, Kenya] As new HIV/AIDS infections and related deaths decline, Christian and Muslim leaders in Kenya discussed how… Read more »

Students rally to save classmate’s eyesight

Students rally to save classmate’s eyesight

Source: The Citizen By Nyambega Gisesa and Muthoni Geita Monday, 05 December 2011 By the end of December, doctors predict, a university law student will go totally blind, unless she… Read more »

Study highlights serious problem of hospital-acquired infections in Africa

Study highlights serious problem of hospital-acquired infections in Africa

Source: Wellcome Trust 30 November 2011 Research funded by the Wellcome Trust has highlighted the scale of the problem of hospital-acquired infections in sub-Saharan Africa. The study, published today in… Read more »

Aids Day today 1st.Dec: API appreciates those taking initiates to give better living to HIV/AIDs victims.

Aids Day today 1st.Dec: API appreciates those taking initiates to give better living to HIV/AIDs victims.

Source: Africanpress, Posted by African Press International on December 1, 2011 By api The funding is not enough. The disease is a menace and when those affected by the disease… Read more »

Port workers at risk of HIV

Port workers at risk of HIV

Source: Supply Chain By Anna Game-Lopata | December 2, 2011 Port workers are increasingly at risk of HIV AIDS infection, a new study finds. Released for World’s Aids Day, December… Read more »

KENYA: Teenage Widow Inheritors Expose themsleves to HIV/AIDS

KENYA: Teenage Widow Inheritors Expose themsleves to HIV/AIDS

Source: Professional Journalist: IQ4News Friday, 2 December, 2011 While many may argue that wife inheritance is a thing of the past among the community, it is real among the teenagers…. Read more »

In Kenya, new life at an old hospital

In Kenya, new life at an old hospital

Source: thestar.com Published On Sun Nov 27 2011 Jayme Poisson/Toronto Star NAIROBI, KENYA—Lillian Wanjiru is in labour, about to give birth to her third child, and she is worrying about… Read more »

Out Goes the River, In comes The Christian Rite of passage

Out Goes the River, In comes The Christian Rite of passage

Source: Nairobi Star BY NJONJO KIHURIA Wednesday, 23 November 2011 At the beginning of November, Elijah Kamunya, an accountant with a fast growing Nairobi firm, took ten days off, to… Read more »

Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion

Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion

Source: (Reuters) – Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed… Read more »

Huw Stephens in Kenya

Huw Stephens in Kenya

Source ActionAiad.org Posted by Lisa Telfer 24 November 2011 12:35 Our friend and Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens recently went on a trip to the slums of Nairobi in Kenya… Read more »

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