Zimbabwe has halved its HIV rates from 1997 to 2007 according to a study in British journal Plos. Reuters reported today on the findings: British researchers said Zimbabwe’s epidemic was one of the biggest in the world until the rate of people infected with HIV almost halved, from 29 percent of the population in 1997 to 16 percent …
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Twenty-two young persons were presented with instruments of office, to begin their two-year tenure as Youth Ambassadors for Jamaica, on Tuesday February 8. The Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, assisted by the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, presented the instruments to the Youth Ambassadors, at the ceremony …
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YOUTHS from rural areas in Naitasiri and Nausori got a chance to speak about the issues affecting them at a two-day forum last week. The forum was organised by Live & Learn Environmental Education with the theme ‘building grassroot democracy in Fiji’ and was held at the Navatuvula Village in Naitasiri on Thursday and at …
Every year half a million children under 5 die from Strepcoccus Pneumoniae, or pneumoccal disease. We’ve written about the life-saving pneumonia vaccine already, which is key because, in Kenya, the disease claims the lives of more children than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. More than 70 percent of the deaths caused by the disease are …
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Here’s a novel idea: what if people, normal healthy women and men in developing villages around the globe, jumped in to fill the gap of doctors and nurses? In today’s New York Times Opinionator column, Tina Rosenberg looks at one village in India that trains villagers to do the jobs of doctors and nurses. It’s …
Despite its often anti-protection opinions, the Vatican will be hosting an AIDS conference, which will hopefully clarify their recent confusing flip-flopping on condoms. PBS Newshour headlines the incredible news: Last fall, Pope Benedict XVI grabbed headlines when he saidduring an interview that the use of condoms might be a sign of moral responsibility for someone …
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As the Commonwealth Youth Programme hosts a summit of youth leaders in London, Azhar (Ali) Fateh reflects on a month that has seen despots toppled in the Middle East and a resurgence in respect for human rights and democracy. As we have seen in Tunisia and Egypt, it is young people who are the main …
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Among the most popular tattoo designs since the ancient times are skull tattoo designs. In our times they are also often chosen by people in different countries. More than that, their popularity has become bigger recently. The most important question is what makes skull tattoo designs so often made? The cause for this is certainly …
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On February 19, hundreds of youth leaders came together at the Pamplemousses Youth Centre for a half day workshop on the theme ‘Entrepreneurship Perspectives and Challenges’. The minister of Youth and Sports sent a message saying that the future lies in entrepreneurship. The goal of the workshop was to inculcate the basic concepts of entrepreneurship …
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron just reignited the debate on “multiculturalism,” joining ranks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Sarkozy by declaring their multicultural policies a “failure.” As a U.S. passport carrying, multilingual, daughter of immigrants, and as a mother of aspiring global citizens, such a defeat felt like a kick in the gut. …
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