Rwandan Sex Soap Opera Wins Award

A Rwandan radio soap opera that takes on controversial issues about sexual health has won a prestigious One World Media Award at a ceremony in the UK.
Urunana follows life in the fictional village of Nyarurembo and each week has an estimate audience of 10 million.
Narcisse Kalisa, Urunana’s director, says the show is not afraid of [...]

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Aids Services With Sexual Reproductive Health To Reduce Cost-Mahama

Mr John Eliasu Mahama, Programmes Officer for Alliance For Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), an NGO has stressed the need for integration of HIV/AIDS services and Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) activities for the effective and efficient utilisation of resources provided by Global Fund Proposal for Ghana.
He said such integration would also provide clients with a holistic [...]

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Universal Periodic Review Of Zambia

This submission summarizes Human Rights Watch’s key concerns with Zambia’s fulfillment of its human rights obligations and commitments in the context of women’s human rights and HIV/AIDS, and outlines recommendations to Zambia.
For an elaborate analysis, outlining our concerns in detail, please see the Human Rights Watch report Hidden in the Mealie Meal: Gender-based Abuses and [...]

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PM urges alll Jamaicans to get routine HIV tests

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Jamaican Prime Minister, the Hon Bruce Golding and Chairman of the National AIDS Committee, Howard Hamilton on Thirsday underwent voluntary counselling and HIV tests in a gesture to encourage more Jamaicans to get tested for the virus. The tests, which were done, using the rapid test method forms part of the Committee%26rsquo;s [...]

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