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Sexual violence against girls widespread in Swaziland
13 May 2009 (aidsmap) - A third of girls in Swaziland have experienced sexual violence by the age of 18, according to a study published in the May 9th edition of The Lancet. Such violence was strongly associated with sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy complications or miscarriages, unwanted pregnancy and mental health problems.
Stigma Preventing Some HIV-Positive Women In Kenya From Following Recommended Infant Feeding Practices
Some HIV-positive women in Kenya are following cultural infant feeding practices, such as starting solid foods at an early age, instead of World Health Organization recommendations that infants born to HIV-positive women be exclusively breastfed for the first six months to improve their chances of survival, IRIN/PlusNews reports.
Human rights organisations express outrage over Burundi's criminalisation of homosexuality
29 April 2009 (aidsmap) - Human rights organisations from around the world have joined together to call for the immediate reversal of Burundi’s criminalisation of homosexuality.
Obama Administration Names Former Clinton Official Goosby to Global AIDS Coordinator Post
29 April 2009 (Kaisernetwork) - President Obama on Monday named Eric Goosby as the new global AIDS coordinator and administrator of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the New York Times reports (Macfarquhar, New York Times, 4/27).
Zimbabwe: Multiple Sexual Partners Fuel HIV
Harare — HAVING multiple sexual partners has become the major driver of new HIV infections and the biggest obstacle in fighting the pandemic in southern Africa, an official said last Thursday.
Leading Zimbabwean HIV/AIDS Activist, Lynde Francis Dies
Harare, 2 April 2009 (allAfrica) - Lynde Francis has died. She was the founder and director of The Centre in Zimbabwe, an organization run by and for people living with HIV. Francis herself lived with HIV for decades, but she died from related complications in Harare on Tuesday. She was one of the first people in Zimbabwe to go public about her HIV status in 1986.
