Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Calendario Romano 2009.
The calendar can be bought here 10% of proceeds go to The Food Chain a registered charity supported by peripheries.
The Roman Catholic Church has issued guidance for future priests to have psychological test aiming at preventing “tragic situations” (read “sexual abuse by priest”) caused by what the Church ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
IRIN reports on African long haul truck drivers who entertain monogamous relationship with a girlfriend whilst they are on the road and their wife is a home.
"I decided to have one girlfriend, because if you go out with so many women then you risk getting HIV or other diseases," ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Jaboya is a form of bartering observed on the coast of Kenya where a customer is also a lover. Men fish and women buy the fish to sell on the market. A woman without a boyfriend or a male partner would not be able to obtain fish. Women with ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
It is revelation's time for AIDS Inc. Two months ago Kevin de Cock, the epidemiologist heading the HIV-AIDS program with the World Health Organisation, briefly acknowledged, before recanting, that the threat of an heterosexual AIDS pandemic outside of Africa had disappeared and this month at the XVII International AIDS conference ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Having asked who should get the dosh, it would be useful to look back at who got it so far. For many years, the fight against HIV and AIDS was not a cause attracting a lot of financial attention within developed countries. It is not until the 2000 international AIDS ...
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