&#39;Why we are failing African girls&#39;
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Princess Kasune Zulu is infected with HIV and has lost both her parents to Aids. She works and campaigns for people infected with HIV/Aids in Africa through the aid and development agency World Vision.
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More than one million African babies do not survive their first month of life, the World Health Organisation says.
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&quot;We will have to put an end to three &#39;Ss&#39; - Silence, Stigma and Shame. Young people can protect themselves only if they have proper information about HIV/AIDS,&quot; he noted.
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Wangari Maathai rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa - poor women. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was praised by the awarding committee as &quot;a source
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Protecting the rights of women is a matter of fairness, social stability and public health. Improving the overall societal treatment of women and girls is one way to control the AIDS epidemic worldwide.
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Leigh Hopper&#39;s Dec. 1 article on AIDS [&quot;The personal stories behind the statistics&quot;] stated that &quot;HIV is a disease of poverty, of lack of other options, of lack of education.
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Governments and aid groups are failing Africa by giving emergency food donations instead of addressing the causes of hunger crises, Oxfam said in a report released Monday.
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Women and girls should be the focal point of the global war against HIV/AIDS, foreign and local officials said here on Friday. &quot;One of the objects most affected by HIV/AIDS is
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EDITOR&#39;S NOTE: Michal McDowell is a sophomore at the International High School of Indiana. Last summer, she traveled to South Africa with her mother, Jennifer Drobac, a board member
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She only wanted to give underprivileged African girls a chance at a better life. But a tearful Oprah Winfrey begged for forgiveness Sunday from students' parents at her all-girls academy, currently reeling from allegations of abuse.   "I've disappoin...
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Comment is free: Zoe Margolis: It may be 2007, but a sexually liberated woman is still judged a failure and labelled a slag.
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An education conference in London is again debating the issue of underachievement by black pupils - and encouraging them to aim higher.
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It was a disaster from start to finish. They had refused to learn from the mistakes of their forebears, that people who are invaded are people who will resist; they failed to understand the culture and psyche ...
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Lack of education, sexist male officials and traditional views on marriage remain major stumbling blocks for Kenyan girls aspiring to be athletes, says one of the country's first female Olympians.
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LONDON, Sep 1 (IPS) - The state of reproductive health is getting worse   in several African countries, a new 'report card'  prepared for a London  meet reveals.
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A report by a kids&#39; group says more than half of the children in the world are suffering because of the effects of war, poverty and the HIV virus.
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The story in this month&#39;s &quot;Men&#39;s Health Magazine&quot; claims that when it comes to safe sex, Detroit gets a failing grade.