Articles about United States Agency For International Development
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A manual for integrating gender into reproductive health and HIV programmes
24 April 12
Regional relevance: International
The Interagency Gender Working Group promotes gender equity within programmes to improve reproductive and maternal health and HIV/AIDS outcomes and to foster sustainable development. This manual promotes greater understanding of how gender affects the capacity to make informed choices about sexual and reproductive... [read more]
Sexual Violence in African Conflicts
06 December 11
Regional relevance: Africa
Civilians in Africa's conflict zones-particularly women and children, but also men-are often vulnerable to sexual violence, including rape, mutilation, and sexual slavery. This violence is carried out by government security forces and non-state actors, including, rebel groups, militias, and criminal organizations.... [read more]
Zimbabwe: Newborns Missing the Safety Net
02 March 11
The high cost of maternity and health care, the lack of a proper follow-up system, and a limited ability to diagnose HIV infection early in babies means many Zimbabwean children are not being caught by the safety net that the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme was intended to provide. [read more]
Gender Linked, Issue 12, November 2010
14 December 10
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
Hello everybody, welcome to the November edition!
Where has 2010 gone? We are now planning for our end of year party and office slowdown when many staff go on holiday. As I drove to work, I reminisced about the 2010 World Cup, flags flying on nearly every car and house, it was an exciting time to be in South Africa... [read more]
Executive Director's Office
07 December 10
This month the ED travelled to Bulawayo and facilitated a meeting of the Women in Local Government Forum (see phoro). She also launched the SADC 2010 Barometer with the South African Minister of Home Affairs Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma and is travelling to Malawi to launch the Barometer there. She will be launching At... [read more]
African children stuck in legislation limbo
16 September 10 | (1) Comment
Regional relevance: Malawi
Andrew Adam is 12 years old, and a fisherman by trade. [read more]
Stop FGM – our girls deserve better
30 November 09
Regional relevance: Tanzania
In 2004, my aunty Sarah Moris went to the Mara region in Tanzania to give birth. She fled back to the city in Dar es Salaam for fear of having her genitals cut while in labour. [read more]
For immediate release: Sixteen Days- Government urged to put its money where its mouth is
25 November 08
Regional relevance: South Africa
Johannesburg 25 November: NGOs have urged the government to “put its money where its mouth is” in the fight against gender violence at the start of the 2008 Sixteen Days of Activism campaign. [read more]
Cutting edge: Male circumcision and HIV
03 July 08
Regional relevance: Africa
Male circumcision (removal of the foreskin of the male penis) is increasingly gaining currency as part of strategies to reduce HIV-infection. In sub-Saharan Africa, the worst affected region in the world, researchers say that male circumcision (MC) could prevent six million new infections in the next two decades.... [read more]
"No Experience Necessary": The Internal Trafficking of Persons in South Africa
31 January 08
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) initiated an assessment of internal trafficking of persons in South Africa. Completed over a period of six months, beginning in March and ending in September 2008, the aim of this... [read more]
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