ICTs for development
- SOUTHERN AFRICA: HIV pregnancy, stigma and ignorance
- L. Laura Lopez Gonzalez / IRIN PlusNews, 2009
- For many women, pregnancy is a time of anticipation and celebration, but for those living positively it can be frustrating when their status - and not their pregnancy - takes centre stage. Being pregn...
- Widows risk HIV in purification rites
- IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- Widows who submit to the ritual are obliged to have unprotected sex three times a day over the course of a week. The practice is thought to purify a woman and her home after her husband's death and is...
- HAITI: Sex for survival puts women at risk
- IRIN PlusNews, 2007
- After her aunt turned her out onto the chaotic streets of Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, eight months ago, Marie Jessy*, 16, survived by befriending men who gave her a place to stay for the night a...
- Human trafficking crackdown also hits HIV prevention
- IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- The Cambodian government's crackdown on human trafficking and sexual exploitation could reverse the progress made in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, as sex workers fleeing the police have been unable ...
- MOZAMBIQUE: Love, or the next best thing, for sale
- IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- Most inter-generational relationships in Mozambique involve an older man and a teenage girl, said Marcelo Kantu, a programme official and activist from the reproductive health non-governmental organis...
- Kenya's rising demand for male circumcision
- IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- Health facilities in Nyanza Province in western Kenya are struggling to meet the demand for medical male circumcisions since politicians threw their weight behind efforts to promote the procedure as a...
- Gigolos and tourists take chances at the Kenyan Coast
- IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- Tourism puts an interesting twist on sterotypical gender dynamics when older women turn to younger men for sex with the lure of money....
- Too Journalistic - Dating is hectic...
- IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- As part of an on-going feature looking at love in the time of HIV, PlusNews follows one woman through her quest for positive love in the personals: "He's [HIV] positive and I like that - it's not like...
- Sex ed - still the seventh and forgtten subject
- L. Laura Lopez Gonzalez / IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- South Africa has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world nevertheless sex education in the country continues to be a gamble for youth and for teachers....
- Using mobile phones to fight HIV
- IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- As Uganda's HIV prevalence is rising again, policy makers are on the look for innovative ways of educating people about the virus. This article, published by PlusNews, reports on a pilot project in we...
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