Swazi king endorses mass circumcision
By Campaigns | July 21, 2011
Mail and Guardian, 18 July
Swaziland’s King Mswati III called on Friday for his male subjects to get circumcised as he endorsed a campaign aimed at tackling the world’s highest HIV infection rate. Read the rest of this entry »
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UN Press Release: MDGs Annual Report 2011
By Campaigns | July 21, 2011
UN Press Release, Nairobi/Johannesburg, 7 July 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa advances on many Millennium Development Goals, but still faces tough challenges
Gains in health and education, but urgent progress needed on child and maternal deaths, nutrition and gender equality, UN report says Read the rest of this entry »
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UN Women’s Agency Being “Strangled at Birth”
By Mark | July 1, 2011
IPS, 30 June
When the United Nations inaugurated a landmark special agency for women last January, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set an initial target of 500 million dollars as the proposed annual budget for the new gender-empowered body.
But nearly six months later, the voluntary funding for U.N. Women (UNW) from the 192 member states has remained painfully slow. Read the rest of this entry »
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MDGs: Make the most of the next five years
By Mark | January 24, 2011
IRIN, 20 January 2011
A decade after world leaders adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there is no consensus on what impact they have had on global poverty.
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South Africa: Government wins battle for cheaper AIDS drugs
By Mark | December 15, 2010
Tighter competition lets minister deliver on promise of lower prices
Tamar Kahn, Business Day
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi yesterday delivered on his promise to slash the cost of AIDS drugs, announcing that the government would pay half the price it did for the same medicines just two years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
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HIV/AIDS in South Africa
By Info | December 1, 2010
Mark Beacon, December 1, 2010
Today millions of people across South Africa will mark World AIDS Day with the message ‘We are responsible’. The campaign, which is focused on the role that all South Africans can play in addressing the pandemic, will run until June next year; the ambitious deadline the government has set itself for the testing of 15 million people. Read the rest of this entry »
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Child deaths stubbornly high in South Africa
By Laura | July 28, 2010
Plus News Global, 27 July 2010
The race to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015 is more than halfway run, but new reports say South Africa is unlikely to reduce its burden of deaths in children under five in time to cross the finish line. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hard times delay MDGs for Lesotho
By Laura | June 28, 2010
IRIN News, 25 June 2010
Life is mostly hard in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, but the chronic droughts that seem to signal the unfolding impact of climate change are projected to become more severe, and could squeeze cultivable land from an already slim 10 percent to a mere three percent in 25 years. Read the rest of this entry »
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