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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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Bibi Rusell, former international fashion model and now world renowned Bengali designer started her own version of (PRODUCT)RED with HIV-infected women in Cambodia.
Russell joined the women of MDSF, an initiative started in 2006 by the UN Development Program that now employs 17 women living with HIV in a Phnom ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Abstinence and faithfulness are often promoted as the only and best forms of protection against HIV infection. If the theory is true, in the real world abstinence and faithfulness have shown an impressive rate of failure. In a couple it takes two for it to work, and when single it ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
“A tiny group of Republican senators continues to block a vote on an important bill to increase American spending on AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world” i.e. PEPFAR.
Republicans opposing the re-authorisation of PEPFAR have done so on different grounds. A recurring argument being the cost of the President's ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Abdul Latiff Ahmad, Malaysia's deputy health minister has urged every woman in the country to carry a condom to protect against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. "This is not to debase them but to protect them. Women are the first ones to get exploited by their (HIV-positive) partners," the ...
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