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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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