Hidden behind the high walls that surround most middle-class suburban homes in South Africa is one of the largest and most marginalised black, female workforces in the country.
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An innovative AED project in Botswana aims to increase the number of people who get HIV/AIDS testing services. Using new technologies and trained counselors, the services are being taken into communities.
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With more South African doctors now working abroad than in the country's ailing public health sector, the government needs to start aggressively recruiting health workers from other countries, according to a non-profit recruitment organisation however the government still thinks two wrongs don't make a right.
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From Poverty to Power is a major new book from Oxfam International that argues that ending the scourges of extreme poverty, inequality, and threatened environmental collapse is the greatest global challenge of the twenty-first century. The best way to tackle them is through a combination of active citizens and effective nation states. Why active citizenship? Because people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny, fighting for rights and justice in their own societ more...
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By Sara Friedman, Managing Editor, AIDSLink, Global Health Council. Jailed physician and human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen was named the 2008 recipient of the Global Health Council’s annual Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights. Living in Raipur, Chhattisgarh in central India, the 58-year old pediatrician was selected by a jury of public health professionals for this prestigious award because of his long service to poor tribal communities in India, his leadership in establishing more...
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In the last few decades, the increase in poverty in the Latin America and the Caribbean region has mainly affected women and girls and this feminization of poverty has translated into the feminization of HIV/AIDS. Women who are young and poor are increasingly the face of HIV/AIDS in LAC (as well as Africa and Asia), according to the report of the Dialogue, 'Strategies for the South: Building Synergies in HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights,' a conference that took place in Buenos more...
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Balasahyoga is a new HIV/AIDS program in Andhra Pradesh that focuses on the family based on the premise that the quality of children’s lives will be improved if their parent(s) remain healthy, productive and able to offer a stable home life. The program supports children made vulnerable by HIV by providing holistic services to families, not just the children themselves. Balasahyoga, which means “active support to the child,” represents one of the first comprehensive efforts to help familie more...
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