Monday, May 18, 2020
As the world continues to grapple with the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, many in Africa are worried not only about its spread but about the pandemic's long-term economic consequences as well. But long before our attention was captured by this virus, African...
Friday, December 20, 2019
BLOG: A community-led baseline study on the ‘Extent of social inclusion and access to social welfare schemes and basic services for urban poor’, released here on Thursday, has found that 16% of the respondents did not have a voter identity card, 42% did...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
BLOG: World leaders have a disappointing record when it comes to crises that take decades to unfold. Much greater investment in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s could have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars 20 years later, for...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
The South African study, published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS), is the first to attempt to measure the impact of cash transfers on IPV specifically among adolescents. Girls (aged between 14 and 17) and their families were...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$13.4 million contribution from the United States government to support people living with HIV, AIDS and TB in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
The contribution comes...
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Africa, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Eswatini, Zimbabwe
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partner World Vision International today marked the successful completion of the Prevention Care Package activity. The activity provided services in more than 300 health...