Gender Issues

Kinshasa fashion highlights lack of ARVs

KINSHASA, 3 April 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Twelve HIV-positive women held a fashion show in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on 30 March to highlight the plight of tens of thousands of people with HIV/AIDS, and challenge donors and the authorities to provide adequate treatment. full report

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Tetanus vaccination campaign underway

 PORT MORESBY, 2 April 2012 (IRIN Asia) - The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Health Ministry and international aid agencies have launched a mass vaccination of 1.8 million women and girls aged 15-45 against maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). full report

UGANDA: Deaf demand inclusion in HIV programmes

 KAMPALA, 2 April 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Leaders of the deaf community in Uganda say the government's HIV programmes have failed them because their special needs are not taken into consideration. full report

UGANDA: HIV services in western refugee camps overwhelmed

 ISINGIRO, 29 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Health workers manning five health centres in two refugee camps in the southwestern Ugandan district of Isingiro say they are overwhelmed by the high number of refugees and local residents in need of HIV services. full report

KENYA: Many sex workers are married, new report reveals

 NAIROBI, 27 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - A new survey of commercial sex work in Kenya, the first to include male sex workers, has revealed that 40 percent of female and male commercial sex workers are in marriages or stable unions. full report

ISRAEL: Deportation looms for South Sudan migrants

 TEL AVIV, 27 March 2012 (IRIN Global) - Asylum-seekers from South Sudan living in Israel have until 31 March to return “home” or face deportation, but some have asked to stay, saying conditions are not yet conducive for their safe return. full report

PAKISTAN: Women-led households hit by war, floods in Swat

 PESHAWAR, 26 March 2012 (IRIN Asia) - Nissa Bibi, 40, carries a mobile phone on an orange ribbon round her neck in the hope that her sister - Shahina Bibi who recently returned to their home village in the Kabal area of Swat valley in northern Pakistan - will call. full report

KENYA: The changing face of pastoralism

 NAROK, 26 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Along a small seasonal stream in Ewaso Nyiro village in Narok, southwestern Kenya, Leleseina Nkoitoi sells vegetables from a stall whose bright colours contrast with the parched landscape. full report

UGANDA: Higher HIV rate cause for concern

 KAMPALA, 21 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Uganda's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has risen from 6.4 percent to 6.7 percent, according to a recently released national AIDS Indicator Survey. full report

PAKISTAN: Sharp rise in human trafficking in Sindh Province

 KARACHI, 21 March 2012 (IRIN Asia) - Pakistan’s Sindh Province has recorded a sharp increase in reported cases of human trafficking since the beginning of the year, and the trend could continue unless the authorities take action to contain it, say activists. full report

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