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
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DEVELOPMENT-NIGER (05.02.2012 12:20h): Three Million Children Threatened by Hunger
Women have been left in charge of many of the households in the village of Zamkoye-Koïra,in western Niger,as food shortages have driven male family members to leave in search of work elsewhere. A national survey of vulnerable households shows that 5.4 million people face food insecurity across Niger. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (05.02.2012 12:20h): UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
If the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world. [
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ZAMBIA (02.02.2012 18:50h): Chinese Underage Sex Scandal Sparks Emotive Debate
Zhang Daliu,46,a carpenter from China never imagined himself in the dreadful confines of a stinking and overcrowded Zambian jail where conditions are so terrible that they lead to gastronomic disorders and skin diseases within days of confinement. [
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PAKISTAN-INDIA (29.01.2012 03:11h): Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite
"It was a dark and dingy room,where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties,made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain,"recalls Alefia Mustansir,40,of her childhood experience. [
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA (26.01.2012 12:47h): HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy
If there was no HIV/AIDS,South Africa would have 4.4 million more people than today,the size of a major city. This significant slow-down in population growth is causing a slow down in economic growth and resulting in social ills,researchers warn. [
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INDIA (20.01.2012 08:56h): Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly
Even a year after Rani,a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state,was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea. [
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AFGHANISTAN (05.01.2012 10:27h): Catch 'em Young,for Prostitution
Soma was a teenager in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif when her grandfather arranged her marriage to a husband she had never met. [
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SOMALIA (31.12.2011 19:48h): Rebuilding Among the Rubble
With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings,Somalis are returning,four years after they fled,to their partially standing,bullet-scarred and mortar-shelled neighbourhoods in former Al-Shabaab controlled areas of Mogadishu. [
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SOMALIA (28.12.2011 03:19h): Taking Schools Back From Militants
Schools are beginning to re-open slowly in areas of capital Mogadishu that were until recently controlled by the militant Islamic group al-Shabaab. But an estimated 80 percent of students have not yet returned. [
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA (03.12.2011 05:56h): Male Circumcision a Route to Gender Equality
Although at first glance male circumcision may not be the most obvious entrée to get people talking about gender equality,activists in the Western Cape in South Africa are attempting to do just that. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.11.2011 15:25h): Drastic Child Poverty Might Destroy Lesotho's Future
Flagging economic fortunes and a persistent AIDS pandemic have devastated Lesotho,leaving little hope it will ever be able to pull itself out of its bleak poverty trap. Three out of five of the tiny southern African kingdom's children are living in dismal poverty. Every fourth child is orphaned. [
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MALAWI (07.11.2011 02:16h): No Social Safety Nets for the Poor
In Mbedza village,a remote rural community in southern Malawi,Fedson Feston beams an infant's awkward smile and swings his tiny arms up towards the face of his mother. Four months old,Fedson is too young to know how lucky he is to be alive. [
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DR CONGO (04.11.2011 12:34h): Rehabilitating Former Child Soldiers Who "Liked"Killing
Murhula's* life changed forever when he was nine years old. It was the year that he learned to kill,torture and rape. [
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ZIMBABWE (31.10.2011 20:58h): Forcing Parents to Top Up Teachers'Salaries Cannot Continue
As concerns deepen about the quality of education in Zimbabwe,parents can expect an indefinite extension of subsidising teacher salaries as the cash- strapped government struggles to meet the bloated civil service wage bill. [
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COLOMBIA (17.10.2011 14:05h): "I Was Ready for Anything –Except for Mourning a Daughter"
In the wooden,sheet-metal roofed house,the exact spot where Vanesa Coicué,an 11-year-old Nasa Indian girl,fell is marked by white and yellow chrysanthemums in a plastic soda bottle,along with a lit candle and an orange tree seedling. [
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DR CONGO (16.10.2011 20:06h): Lasting Effects of War Destroy Children's Future
Five years into democracy,with the elections just a few weeks away,the majority of Congolese children continue to face a bleak future. [
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SOMALIA (05.10.2011 15:24h): Rape - The Hidden Side of the Famine Crisis
When Aisha Diis* and her five children fled their home in Somalia seeking aid from the famine devastating the region,she could not have known the dangers of the journey,or even fathom that she would be raped along the way. [
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ENVIRONMENT (29.09.2011 14:14h): Youth Share Best Practices at Tunza
Participants at the ‘Tunza International Children and Youth Conference'underway in this Indonesian city shared best practices and ideas with fellow delegates on Wednesday,hoping they would get replicated. [
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CLIMATE CHANGE (29.09.2011 14:14h): Youth Demand Action Now
Children and youth from 120 countries called on world leaders on Tuesday to pay heed to the looming climate crisis and act to prevent the natural disasters that are in store for the planet. [
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GHANA (24.09.2011 20:28h): The Abandoned Offspring of Oil
Kobina's legs are dappled with scars. He gets them flitting across the beach in Sekondi,in southwest Ghana,slipping in the soot-black mud and clambering over pirogues slippery with fish guts,only to sell a sachet of water or a freshly peeled orange to fishermen working on the shore. [
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SOUTH SUDAN (22.09.2011 15:37h): Children Snatched Out of their Homes
In villages across South Sudan children are being snatched out of their homes in the dead of night,never to see their families again. [
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Children on the Frontline - INTER PRESS SERVICE (22.09.2011 15:37h): Adding Up the Cost of Education in Sierra Leone
A formal strike of teachers has been averted and pupils in Sierra Leone returned to school on Tuesday,almost a week after the term was meant to officially start. [
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SWAZILAND (18.09.2011 02:28h): No Fees No School
The future education of Swazi children remains uncertain,as public schools across the country have not reopened for the new term because government has not been able to pay for their upkeep. [
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SIERRA LEONE (13.09.2011 01:35h): Child Rights Exist Only on Paper
The six-year-old girl pulls her T-shirt up to show the dozens of pale lines across her back. They are fresh scars from the lashing she received from her caregiver after she lost 500 Leones,the equivalent of about 10 cents. [
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MAURITIUS (27.08.2011 05:22h): Drug Use on the Increase among Kids
With drug trafficking rampant in the small Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius,social workers and drug treatment centres are noting an increasing number of children and youth are now becoming addicted to drugs. [
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