Fuel crisis: Electricity Corporation affirms long darkness.
Posted by: JosephEdward
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2012-03-14 10:09:41 -0700 | humanitarian-news
South Sudan Electricity corporation director for electricity distribution Mr. Michael Wani has affirmed that the current electricity crisis in Juba will go for a long time as there is no short term plan put to address the situation. In an...
Circumcision, PrEP and Vaginal Gel: HIV Prevention Show-Stoppers?
Posted by: Simon Collery
Harare :: Zimbabwe | updated 2012-07-27 04:53:17 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The highly unscientific but quite triumphalist term 'game-changer' appears frequently in the HIV literature. It has appeared in articles about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) after the iPrEx trial, and also in relation to three mass male circumcision trials. PrEP was said...
Condoms More Effective, Cheaper & Safer Than Male Circumcision & Depo Provera
Posted by: Simon Collery
Moshi :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-27 04:54:02 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Male circumcision as a HIV prevention intervention has often attracted the response that if you use a condom it's unnecessary and if you don't use a condom it doesn't work; so why not just use a condom? But similar remarks...
UNAIDS' Loss May Be Kenya's Gain
Posted by: Simon Collery
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2012-07-26 18:56:54 -0700 | humanitarian-news
It sounds like Kenya is getting more serious about non-sexually transmitted HIV, at last, particularly where the virus is being transmitted through unsafe healthcare. So far, it has been mentioned that healthcare professionals face some risk of being infected, especially...
Role reversal in Kruger Park – buffalo kills a poacher
Posted by: prabirghose
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated 2012-07-27 17:28:26 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Normally poachers kill wild animals but this was just the opposite - a sort of role reversal when a wild animal killed a poacher. Three persons went to fish illegally in the Kruger National Park in South Africa and one...
Darfur Patrol returned to its base of To Al-Fashir, in Sudan, after incident with members of JEM
Posted by: CATALINA
al Fāšir :: Sudan | updated 2012-07-26 18:57:24 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A contingent of forces of the UN, compound 50 welded Senegalese, three police advisers and two assistants of languages, on Sunday it was retained, almost two days, for more than 100 members of the the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)...
Time To Rethink HIV and AIDS Spending
Posted by: Simon Collery
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2012-07-26 18:59:55 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Back in March last year, in an article entitled "Aids to lose ‘special status’ in new plan", Dr Martin Sirengo of Kenya's National Aids Control Program said “HIV is no longer a big issue. It is just like any other...
Tenofovir Products in Search of a Market
Posted by: Simon Collery
Moshi :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 19:01:18 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A few days ago, an article appeared on AidsMeds.com about the drug Tenofovir being associated with an increased risk of irreversible kidney disease, which does not reverse even when the drug is no longer taken. Tenofovir is one of the...
"Pieta Islamic" under the veil, the revolt
Posted by: Nazish Fatima
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2012-04-19 06:36:49 -0700 | humanitarian-news
As always when the religious reference or pictorial is pressed, the photo essay stirs controversy. Symbolize the "Arab Spring" by Pieta in a full veil hugging a "Christ" Yemeni bared torso could not escape the rule. The photograph, made 15...
Gloomy anniversary in Libya
Posted by: Nazish Fatima
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-04-19 06:36:49 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Just as one could expect that Ceausescu's Romania becomes a paradise on the Black Sea Helvetian overnight, he had not hoped that Libya is transformed immediately into a model of democracy and respect for human rights. The damage done by...
Zimbabwe deports four Chinese nationals
Posted by: prabirghose
Harare :: Zimbabwe | updated 2012-07-27 17:32:01 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The authorities of Zimbabwe have deported four Chinese nationals because they had been eating a protected species of tortoises. The Bell's Hinged tortoises is an endangered species of tortoise in south eastern Zimbabwe as per the Convention on International Trade...
Depo Provera: English Guardian Aligns Itself With Neo-Eugenicist Policies
Posted by: Simon Collery
Moshi :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 19:02:50 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The English Guardian may face something of a dilemma when covering the WHO's failure to give clear advice to African women who have been persuaded to use Depo Provera and similar injectable hormonal contraceptives, which appear to be associated with...
WHO Refuses to Give Correct Information About Depo Provera
Posted by: Simon Collery
Moshi :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 19:04:14 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The WHO has issued a statement stating that the injectible and oral versions of hormonal contraceptives, such as Depo Provera, are safe for HIV positive people and those thought to be at risk of being infected with HIV. This is...
Much Needed Attention for Healthcare HIV Transmission, But Little for Patients
Posted by: Simon Collery
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2012-07-26 19:06:06 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A married Kenyan couple decided to get tested for HIV after the woman became sick and it was found that she was positive but her husband was not. This is not particularly uncommon, but it is shocking that there is...
Shakira attacked by crazed sea lion in South Africa
Posted by: Nina Rai
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2012-07-28 03:01:57 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Report By: Nina Rai Cape Town, 15 Feb, 2012 A news sure to send her fans into a tizzy, pop star Shakira is said to have been attacked by a sea lion on Sunday afternoon Feb 13, 2012, while on...
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