The bustling northern Philippine city of Olongapo has defied the politically influential Roman Catholic Church by passing its own reproductive health code advocating sex education for high school students and the mass distribution of condoms, among other things.
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Pakistan currently has very low levels of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection; the overall HIV prevalence rate is less than 0.1 percent in the general population. However, the country is considered to be at high potential risk for an HIV epidemic for a number of reasons. In particular, in the major cities there are large concentrations of individuals engaging in behaviors that make them vulnerable to the rapid spread of HIV and of classical sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The in more...
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This synthesis paper analyses all available relevant data to carefully characterize the HIV epidemics in 15 West African countries. The aim is to improve understanding of HIV transmission dynamics in this sub-region, assess the extent to which existing responses address these specific transmission dynamics, and recommend ways to improve the effectiveness of West Africa’s epidemic response.(PDF 2.51MB)
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'An ongoing investigation into the large number of HIV cases in the small town of Jalalpur Jattan in Pakistan's northern Gujrat district, in Punjab Province, is expected to shed light on patterns of infection in the region and influence the future direction of the country's HIV policy.In August, the New Light AIDS Control Society, a local non-governmental organisation, conducted random HIV tests of 342 people in the area; an alarming 90 were positive. The National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) a more...
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World Food Programme. A meals-in-school programme gave a big boost to both a schoolboy and his father. Both Francis Ngonsa and his 11-year-old son Fidelis got a new start in life because of school feeding. It was Fidelis, who enrolled at a community school in the Zambian capital of Lusaka which has a school feeding programme run by WFP at the nearby Reach Out Community School. Here, Fidelis gets a cooked meal every day when there are classes. But it is Francis who gets a 50-kilogramme bag of mai more...
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World Food Programme Story. A street vendor in Port-au-Prince pours her meagre earnings into school fees. Sonia has pinned all her hopes on her children. The 39 year old mother of four sells shoes and sweets in the streets of Port-au-Prince, jostling for customers with the thousands of other vendors, in order to keep her children in school. Here, the HIV-positive status of the two youngest is a secret.Sonia herself has been living with HIV for 12 years. Her husband died of the disease in 1996. S more...
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World Food Programme. WFP food aid has literally give Keut Chreul a new lease of life. Today, Keut Chreul sells books and postcards about the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat. Flush with the money earned, he will pack up his wares and wheel his mobile bookstall home, where his wife and children are waiting for him for the evening meal. It is hard to believe that just a year ago, Chreul, 35, was almost dead. A beggar in the streets of Siem Reap town, he was often found lying on the sidewalk, exhausted more...
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