IPS Inter Press Service Feed Summary:
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to register high levels of HIV prevalence. By focusing on the most vulnerable and marginalized children who remain largely invisible in the epidemic, “Children on the Frontline” seeks to ensure that it can help shape policies and inform Africa’s leadership on the specific needs and issues facing children effected and affected by HIV/AIDS. IPS Africa reporters in East and Southern Africa will seek to humanize the impact of the pandemic, demonstrate the challenges and highlight the types of solutions that can contribute to improving children’s lives by focusing on:
• Prevention of mother to child transmission
• Providing paediatric treatment and care
• Preventing infection among adolescents and young people
• Protection and care for children affected by AIDS
IPS Inter Press Service - Children on the Frontline
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (13.06.2012 02:30h): Pakistanis Blame CIA for Fresh Polio Cases
Pakistan's efforts to contain polio in areas bordering Afghanistan may have received a setback following the conviction of a doctor who allegedly ran a fake vaccine programme to help locate Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (06.06.2012 09:12h): Child Victims of Côte d'Ivoire's Crisis Survive Off Trades
Twelve-year-old Ahmed* pauses on his crutches in the narrow lane that leads from his house to the main road, glancing at the bullet holes still visible on the walls here in the Abobo Park 18 area of Abidjan. He sighs, then speeds up again to catch the bus that will take him downtown to the Adjamé quarter. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (22.05.2012 17:20h): Vaccination – Pakistan's Missing Shots
The deaths of 20 children in an outbreak of measles in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Agency FATA are raising concerns over the state of immunisation in the conflict-ridden areas along the Afghanistan border. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 09:53h): Autism "Relegated to the Sidelines"
At first glance Nortey Quaynor looks like any ordinary 29-year-old Ghanaian. If you spend a little time with him, though, you soon realise that something is different. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (11.05.2012 15:00h): "Not a Famine, but an Issue of Food Insecurity"
Millions of Angola's poorest families are facing critical food insecurity as a prolonged dry spell across large parts of the country has destroyed harvests and killed off livestock. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (11.05.2012 08:26h): War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka
On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka's northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of thier husbands who disappeared or surrendered to the military as it moved in to mop up nearly three decades of armed Tamil separatism. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (10.05.2012 09:30h): Major Effort to Reduce Child Mortality Not Enough
Ghana has taken a major step towards reducing its under-five mortality rate by becoming the first African country to introduce two new vaccines for rotavirus and pneumococcal disease. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (07.05.2012 07:03h): Child Soldiers Used in Mali Conflict
It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn on Mar. 30, and several armed groups, including militias and bandits, were operating in the region. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.05.2012 22:37h): Morocco Still Divided Over Marriage of Minors
The widespread practice of marrying minors continues to be one of the most incendiary legal and political issues in Morocco today, causing open confrontations between hard-line Islamists and moderates throughout the country. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (27.04.2012 17:30h): Taking Solace from a Verdict that Can't Bring Back Loved Ones
Saffa Momoh Lahai was just two years old when his father was killed during Sierra Leone's civil war. Rebels attacked their family home in Kailahun District, in the eastern reaches of the country, and shot Lahai's father when he tried to resist. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (25.04.2012 17:18h): Sierra Leone Still Suffers Legacy of Child Soldiers
When the verdict against Liberia's former President Charles Taylor for war crimes in Sierra Leone is handed down on Thursday, it will be of no help to the many former combatants of the country's brutal civil war who have not been reintegrated into society. Instead, they will continue to pose a threat to Sierra Leone's future stability. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.04.2012 11:17h): Taking Refuge in Hell Camp
"We have been spending sleepless nights without electricity and clean water. This place is not worth living in but we have no option and will remain here as long as the military operation continues in our area," said Gul Rahim, a former resident of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency, currently languishing in the Jallozai refugee camp in the Nowshera district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (20.04.2012 16:31h): More Toilets in Zimbabwe, Better Livelihoods
Government and sanitation experts say Zimbabwe needs to increase efforts to promote good hygiene and invest in toilets and clean water provision, as the country grapples with a typhoid outbreak. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (15.04.2012 08:59h): Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood
As the process of reintegrating South Sudan's child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers from its ranks in March could mean that within two years children will no longer constitute part of the country's militia groups. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (04.04.2012 16:36h): Latrines Critical to Keeping Kids in South Sudan's Schools
Before Bor B Primary School built latrines on the school grounds two years ago, students would leave during their first break to head home. Most did not come back until the next morning. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (04.04.2012 16:36h): Mauritania – Small Steps Towards Ending Female Genital Mutilation
A multi-pronged strategy to end female genital mutilation in Mauritania is making gradual progress, though campaigners acknowledge much remains to be done in a country where more than two-thirds of girls suffer excision. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.04.2012 04:13h): Breastfeeding, Not Formula, for South Africa's HIV-Positive Mothers
South Africa's nine provinces will begin phasing out provision of free formula to HIV-positive mothers and implement a new policy on breast-feeding from Sunday. But despite the clarity of the policy and its supporting data, vocal critics, including respected individuals from leading medical and academic institutions, have decried the choice. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.04.2012 15:58h): Liberia's Government Finding a Way to End FGM
"There were three people. One person was holding me down; one person was holding my hand; and the other person was doing the job. They lay me down, and…" Fatu said of the female genital mutilation she underwent as an eight- year-old in Liberia. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (29.03.2012 19:16h): Chad Famine – Mothers Breaking Apart Anthills in Search of Food
"Only God knows what will happen to me and my children - for two months there's been nothing to eat. We're living like beggars," Henriette Sanglar, a mother of four in the Moursal quarter of the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, told IPS. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (29.03.2012 19:16h): Cameroon's Baka Pygmies Seek an Identity and Education
Kokpa Pascale Moangue, a Baka Pygmy in southeastern Cameroon, has given his children the one thing he always longed for, but his parents could not give him – an education. And he was able to achieve it by obtaining a simple piece of paper: a birth registration certificate. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (29.03.2012 19:16h): Children Lost in Aftermath of Congo's Arms Dump Explosion
Five-year-old Vianey hasn't seen his parents since a series of explosions ripped through an ammunition dump in Brazzaville on Mar. 4. A stranger, Jules Bomboko, said he found Vianey days later, wandering around the Tréchot neighbourhood, a few hundred metres from the site of the blasts. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (27.03.2012 22:31h): The Ticket to an Education in Côte d'Ivoire
The births of tens of thousands of children during Côte d'Ivoire's eight-year rebellion were not formally recorded. Providing these children with birth certificates is one of the mundane yet vital challenges facing the authorities as they work to re-establish the country's public administration. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (20.03.2012 21:05h): Extra Year to Boost School Performance in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is instituting major reforms to its education system after the country reported some of the poorest academic results in West Africa. It will start with adding an extra year to the end of secondary school beginning in 2013, and nearly doubling daily classroom hours. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (20.03.2012 21:05h): The Lost Innocence of Cote d'Ivoire's Children
The group of children playing in a shaded courtyard in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan seem carefree. But when a car exhaust blasts, they tremble. When a soldier walks past, they shudder. And they become anxious when an unknown adult approaches them. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (17.03.2012 04:44h): Myanmar Ethnic Groups Resist Forced Labour
In a move expected to deepen political reform, the quasi-civilian government in Myanmar also known as Burma is permitting the distribution of leaflets that will help thousands of people in the country's ethnic enclaves learn to resist forced labour. [
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