WEST AFRICA: InterAction issues report on sexual exploitation

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Jul 25, 2002

Many factors may explain the vulnerability of displaced people to sexual exploitation but there are "no excuses" for its occurrence, US-based NGOs said in a just-released document titled 'Report of the InterAction Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation of Displaced Children'.

southern africa: facing up to the AIDS orphans crisis

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Jul 25, 2002

Of the 21 million deaths from AIDS to date, three quarters were people living in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS in Africa is fuelled by poverty, and it is causing a humanitarian and economic crisis in which children orphaned by the disease are growing up without parents, schooling or adequate food. What should African governments and the international community be doing to tackle this growing catastrophe?

Participatory Workshops: A Sourcebook of 21 Sets of Ideas and Activities

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Jul 25, 2002

This sourcebook is for all who work with others on participatory learning and change. It provides ideas and options for facilitators, trainers, teachers and presenters, and anyone who organizes and manages workshops, courses, classes and other events for sharing and learning.

Sierra Leone: Former Child Soldiers Struggle to Adjust

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Jul 18, 2002

Some 7,000 children left the battlefields when combatants in Sierra Leone's savage civil war started turning in their guns last year -- the youngest just 6 years old.

Sierra Leone

africa: AIDS in Africa - Continent in Crisis

Helen Jackson
Jul 18, 2002

No terrorist attack, no war, has ever threatened the lives of more than 40 million people worldwide. AIDS does.
African countries, and particularly those in Southern Africa, currently bear the heaviest burden of the AIDS epidemic - its effects permeate societies and include children, women, men, rich and poor alike. This book is one of the few on AIDS written from within Africa. Helen Jackson is the author of two previous versions of the highly acclaimed and popular resource book "AI...read more

mozambique: Overcrowding Worries Education Authorities

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Jul 18, 2002

Maputo city education director Samuel Madumela reiterated on Friday that overcrowding in schools hinders the organizational work of his sector, and contributes to poor academic performance in the country.

Mozambique

ghana: A ripe old age? Not much to look forward to in Ghana

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Jul 18, 2002

The number of people over 60 years old in Ghana, as in other African countries, is steadily rising. By 2050, their number will have increased by 500 percent. For many of them the prospect of an old age lived out in poverty is becoming increasingly real, as family support is declining and no adequate pension systems exist. So far, little is being done to stave off the crisis.

Ghana

South Africa: Deadlock over Aids grant looms

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Jul 18, 2002

Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's blocking of a R720-million grant to fight Aids in KwaZulu-Natal is causing major ructions between the government, on one hand, and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the province and international donor agencies, on the other.

South Africa

South Africa: Ministry denies blocking Aids funds

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Jul 18, 2002

Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is not trying to "block" a R720-million grant from the United Nations Global Fund for Aids, intended for the prevention and treatment of the disease in KwaZulu-Natal, her ministry said this week.

South Africa

South Africa: US kids save up for Eastern Cape crèche

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Jul 18, 2002

American school children's pocket money has seen the beginning of a new future for a crèche in Morgan's Bay. Siyazama Crèche received a cheque for R22 700 from two United States elementary schools and celebrated with a party, said Siyazama administrative committee member Sue Warren-Smith.

South Africa

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