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| Parents Need Peer Education, Too - South Africa |
23 March 2011
Ever since loveLife launched in 1999, the organisation has sought to get South Africans talking about HIV and its underlying sexual dynamics. We therefore applaud initiatives such as the film Protection, which Mara Kardas-Nelson described in her article “Film takes gloves off condom use” (Mail & Guardian, 14-20 Jan 2010) as “a platform to engage with the complexities of sex and masculinity in an age of a harrowing epidemic, changing traditions and shifting gender norms” in our collaborative fight against HIV. |
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| International Women’s Day…a Letter of Love From Men |
7 March 2011
It’s another day for most women in the world: breakfast is cooked, diapers are changed, fields are tended, computers switched on, patients treated, students taught, and houses cleaned.
In the distance, groups of men thump the drums of war. They talk of the cleansing power of explosives stuffed into a car. They anonymously rain missiles from the sky. They order their soldiers to shoot their own citizens to retain their boney grip of power.
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| Improved Communications between a Husband and Wife Key to Family Planning Use |
1 March 2011
Public health organizations have long advocated for the inclusion of men in family planning services, and researchers have suggested a link between male involvement and increased use of contraception. However, there have been few published evaluations of such interventions, and even fewer that are grounded in theory. |
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| Men Slowly Evolving from Breadwinners to Bakers |
22 February 2011
The domestic role played by half of the world's population has long been overlooked by policy-makers, with research and reports on gender roles focusing almost entirely on women. |
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| Where are Africa's Fathers? |
22 February 2011
This year we will celebrate Father's Day in June as the world does globally, honouring our dads and letting them know how important they are in our children's lives. Yet for many African children, this will be a day that passes unnoticed, or worse, is a reminder of an empty space in their lives... |
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| Fatherhood needs redefining, says UN report |
20 February 2011
'Social fatherhood' accurately describes variety of roles men play in children's lives, according to researchers |
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| TEENAGE TATA: VOICES OF YOUNG FATHERS IN POOR COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA |
20 February 2011
Over the past two decades there has been a growing focus on teenage or adolescent fathers. Some studies have looked at young fathers from the perspective of young mothers, others have explored young fathers’ own experiences of being fathered. The majority emphasise the links between early fatherhood and negative life outcomes. |
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| Teenage Fathers: The Missing-Father Myth |
20 February 2011
They are the forgotten partners. It is obvious but often overlooked: for every teenage mother there is a father, usually a teenager who finds himself treated as an outsider, receiving none of the solicitous attention that occasionally attends the mother and child. These fathers are usually depicted as churlish scamps, irresponsible hit-and-run artists out to prove their sexual prowess without a thought for the consequences. Until recently, no one even seemed to factor the father into the situation. But with the surge of concern about teenage mothers, several groups and studies have taken a closer look at teenage fathers. Their findings have challenged many prevailing myths. |
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| PAP - CARMMA - maternal newborn and child health, and PMTCT HIV and AIDS |
1 February 2011
PAP adopts recommendations to coordinate with African regional and national parliaments to mobilise domestic resources for maternal newborn and child health, and prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV |
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| Sex workers blamed for Zimbabwe’s surge in teen HIV cases |
20 January 2011
Teenage sex workers in Zimbabwe are being blamed for a spike in the number of HIV infections by failing to use condoms. The southern African country’s economic turnaround, coinciding with the festive season has seen a boom in the sector and frequent city night clubs. But condom use among teenage sex workers is sparse. |
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| Zimbabwe: Midwives - Angels Or Medusas? |
19 January 2011
When the young woman finally arrived at a Harare polyclinic (name provided) some three months ago, she was relieved. But alas, she did not get the assistance she had expected.
The late Angela Mapanda (not her real name) had often heard of nurses treating expecting mothers like small children, but had no idea how bad the situation could be.
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| Save the Children: Stop Using Violence to Discipline Children |
19 January 2011
Save the Children is calling on parents and teachers to adopt positive and non-violent means of disciplining children as a way of promoting peaceful and non-violent societies. The world’s leading independent agency for children is launching a report titled, Ending Corporal Punishment of Children in Mozambique today in Maputo, advocating for a ban on corporal and other forms of humiliating punishment of children in all settings and to promote other non-violent and positive means of discipline. |
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| Mentoring Fatherless Children |
18 January 2011
In Black America, young boys are learning unconventionally how to be strong, responsible, law-abiding, productive male contributors to their communities. In large number, they are influenced by behavior they see exhibited on television, or are seeking guidance from anyone who will listen. Morals and ethics are not high priority in some cases. So instead of offering a contribution, absentee fathers have drained lives, creating a crisis in the community. By not taking responsibility for their actions in bringing life into being, they have stripped life by denying their sons and daughters the support and love they so desperately need and deserve. |
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| Day of the African Child: The Unending Plight of African Children |
18 January 2011
Thousands of children will be participating in activities across Africa advocating for governments to boost child survival in commemoration of the Day of the African Child. Celebrated on 16 June, this is the same day hundreds of black school children were killed in Soweto, South Africa in 1976 protests for better education.
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| Male Champions in Zimbabwe |
18 January 2011
Knowing your HIV status is still somewhat of a taboo for women in Zimbabwe. Many women are afraid that if they test positive for HIV or AIDS then they will be rejected by their husbands, and this can cause major problems if a woman becomes pregnant. Mother-to-child transmission is the primary cause of HIV infections in children around the globe. |
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| The Fatherhood revolution is long overdue |
18 January 2011
African Fathers Initiative recently completed research in Southern Africa about what children want from their fathers. It was amazing to see what a powerful role fathers play in the imagination of young children. Many told us of their rich relationships with their dads. Sadly, their teachers would tell us afterwards that it was all a heartbreaking fairytale � a wish list rather that a reality for these children. |
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| Stopping violence: A role for fathers? |
18 January 2011
Good fathers help their boys treat women with respect. They lead by example by respecting their partners, wives, and the mothers of their children. They let their daughters know that they must not accept abusive behaviour from men as the norm. They help them tell men that their father would never do it, would not sanction their brothers or other relatives do it so why should they accept it from any other man? |
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| The Father in Contemporary Ghanaian Household! |
11 June 2010
Politics in the household vary from society to society. Politics in the household, in other words, authority pattern in the household has a number of players ranging from the father of the household in question to the children. The father, normally regarded as the head is a key player when we talk of authority patterns in both industrial and traditional societies. |
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| USA: Bayh, Davis Introduce Legislation to Promote Healthy Families, Active Fatherhood |
26 June 2009
With one in three children in the United States living apart from their biological fathers, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL) are renewing their efforts to promote healthy families and support American fathers who are trying to earn a livable wage and take a more active role in the lives of their children. |
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| The White House Speaks Out on Fathering |
26 June 2009
Friday, the same day that legislation to promote active fatherhood was introduced in both the Senate and the House, President Obama convened a town hall forum specifically focused on fathering. Regardless of politics, I consider it a very encouraging sign that responsible fathering is being discussed and championed in the highest office in our land. The President was on point with his comments about why fathering is important and his challenge for all dads to step up and be involved. See his brief PSA and his remarks at the meeting, or read his article in Sundays Parade Magazine. |
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| Cutting edge: Male circumcision and HIV |
16 May 2009
Male circumcision (removal of the foreskin of the male penis) is increasingly gaining currency as part of strategies to reduce HIV-infection. In sub-Saharan Africa, the worst affected region in the world, researchers say that male circumcision (MC) could prevent six million new HIV infections in the next two decades. Yet there is need to examine just how far circumcision offers protection for men and women against HIV and AIDS. |
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| Commentary: Man up and be a real dad |
15 May 2009
"I'll kill all y'all."
Imagine looking at the man whose DNA you carry standing in your home, telling you those chilling words, as he wields a shotgun.
The frightening image is a scary thought. But according to former Major League Baseball star Darryl Strawberry, it was an actual scene, one that begins his book, "Straw: Finding My Way."
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| Using the 2010 Football World Cup to engage boys and men to achieve gender equality |
14 May 2009
Sport has emerged recently as a way to tackle a range of development-related issues such as peace building, post-disaster relief and health promotion. Sonke co-hosted a meeting in Cape Town in July to look at the use of sport to promote social change. |
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| A Father's Magic Touch: Building Positive Partnerships in Thailand |
14 May 2009
BANGKOK, Thailand. Jenjira Boonlom lies wearily on her bed in the post-partum ward of the Bangkhen district hospital, still weak from her Caesarean operation a week ago. Despite the pain, she feels blissful, appreciating Vorayuth, her husband, and his dedication to her and to their little Dream, the one-week-old baby girl on his lap. |
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| Aka Pygmies know why men have nipples: Congo |
12 May 2009
The Aka Pygmies, who live in a tropical forest region on the northern border of the African Congo, have proved to be the stars of paternal involvement.
Aka fathers do more infant caregiving than fathers in any other known society. On average, they hold, or are within arms reach of their infants 47 per cent of the time. |
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| African Father of The Year Essay Contest 2009-10 |
10 May 2009
The African Father of the Year Stories Contest that will be run through late 2009 to just before Fathers Day in June 2010 is to raise awareness about the importance of Africa's fathering. For the past decade Essay Contests have helped USA and United Kingdom fathers groups to connect with more than 800,000 children, fathers and families. Now we bring it to Africa. |
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| Early Childhood Development Can Mitigate the Impact of HIV/AIDS |
7 May 2009
International research confirms that the first six years of life are a critical period of children's growth and development. They form the foundation for achievement of individual potential. To achieve this, we must meet young children's rights to survival, protection, development and participation. In sub-Saharan Africa, these rights are severely compromised by the twin scourges of poverty and HIV/AIDS. |
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Activists Ask Government to Integrate Men and Boys in Gender Policies |
3 May 2009
Gender activists are calling on the new South African government to improve the countrys gender legislation. Current gender policies focus on women, ignoring the rights, roles and responsibility of men and boys, they say. |
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| Kenyan women hit men with sex ban |
1 May 2009
Womens activist groups in Kenya have slapped their partners with a week-long sex ban in protest over the infighting plaguing the national unity government. |
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| UN deputy secretary-general calls on men to do more HIV care |
8 March 2009
Men need to play a more active role in caring for people living with HIV so that women have the chance to participate in public life, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro. |
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| UNDP supports all-Ukrainian responsible fatherhood school in Zakarpattya |
2 March 2009
Certain stereotypes that exist in Ukrainian society often create obstacles to equal division of domestic chores and selection of flexible tools leading to harmonious family life overall.
"In Ukraine it is common to think that women are the only ones responsible for raising children while men have to work and gain money. This stereotype deprives men from their right to educate their children and reduces the importance of fathers. As a result, women have to choose between career and family while men can not take a parental leave to stay with their child," Larysa Kobelyanska said.
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| Restorative justice transforming families |
5 December 2008
An attractive, smartly dressed couple, Anne and Phillip Govender, sit waiting in the reception area waiting to be called into a mediation office. Their anxiety and nervousness is clear from their body language. However, a well-trained and articulate community based mediator from Khulisa?s Justice and Restoration Programme (JARP) soon addresses their anxiety and questions about restorative justice. |
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| Taxis driving message home on gender violence |
4 December 2008
If you jump into a combi during the next couple of weeks, you may just be greeted with something a bit different from the usual fare of thumping Kwaito and house beats. Launched 4 December at Ekurhuleni Municipality, Tjoon'in is an audio CD designed specifically for playing in public transport as part of 16 Days of Activism, to raise awareness among taxi drivers and passengers about gender violence. |
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| Violence tears a family apart |
4 December 2008
Have you ever dragged yourself up the staircase just so you could find a place of safety only to find yourself in a corner of no escape? Have you looked for answers while your eyes tear, or hands bandage your own wounds caused by your spouse only to find out you are living in confusion and hurt? Well! This is me. I am 30 years old. I have been married for 10 years and l have two girls. I was happily married to a man who is now 40 years old. 3 years ago I woke up one morning only to realise last night was not a dream. |
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| Chased away for being disabled |
3 December 2008
I was born 3 of July 1955 at Katlehong and grew up with polio after being diagnosed when l was eight months old. I stayed at the Germiston Hospital, Baragwaneth, and later ended up in Natal-Spruit Hospital where they kept disabled people. In 1993, l received an RDP house. It was nice because l was working and l could do whatever l wanted. My house was very beautiful. |
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| Disability does not mean inability |
3 December 2008
My name is Grace Dimakatso Maleka, I was married to my husband for 20 years. We were blessed with three children, two of whom are still alive. Since we began to live together we did not have a happy relationship, we used to fight every weekend when he came home drunk. |
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| Measuring gender violence is a must |
3 December 2008
When the South African Police Services (SAPS) released its latest set of statistics mid-year, the numbers again showed a decrease of about seven percent on all reported ?contact? crimes such as murder, assault and sexual assault. |
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| Bernhard: A HIV+ father's story |
30 November 2008
I am a member of the Positive Speakers in my local support group for people living with HIV/Aids in Namibia.
When I tested HIV positive for the first time I did not believe my result. I had been tested at a private doctor and didn?t get any counselling. I went three times for testing at the local clinics in Walvis Bay. The results were the same.
I thought it would never happen to me because I am Boxer, powerful and strong in my body. It was very emotional and painful for me. I kept it secret but that also caused me pain. I thought that I was going to die and my family and friends were going to discriminate against me; gossip about me.
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| Love for sale - or the next best thing |
30 November 2008
When classes finish at Francisco Manyanga Secondary School in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, most teachers and students head for the bus while others walk home. Jlia*, 16, a 10th-grade student, gets into a luxury car, where a man who looks to be in his 40s waits for her. The man is not her father, but her boyfriend, Lucas*. |
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| Mathematical Model Suggests New Approach to AIDS |
30 November 2008
Scientists have proposed a radical new strategy to halt the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but its implementation could have human rights implications, say commentators.
Under the approach, published in The Lancet, people in the worst hit areas - Sub-Saharan Africa for example - would be tested for HIV annually and those found positive would be immediately put on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. |
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| We can save more babies from AIDS, say South Africa researchers |
30 November 2008
A ground-breaking South African study has provided the first hard evidence that treating HIV-positive babies with antiretroviral (ARV) medicines from as early as six weeks dramatically improves their chances of survival.
The study, conducted in Cape Town and Soweto, Johannesburg's largest township, and published in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that infants started on ARV therapy immediately after diagnosis were 76 percent less likely to die than those who began treatment only after displaying clinical symptoms. Early treatment also greatly reduced the progression of disease. |
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| Zimbabwe health system in crisis |
30 November 2008
Stanley Takaona, deputy president of the Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Activist Union, has spent the past month volunteering at two state hospitals in the capital, Harare, after health workers began a work stoppage that has virtually closed both facilities, leaving hundreds of people without medical assistance.
Takaona, who is HIV positive and a counsellor, told IRIN/PlusNews that thousands of HIV-positive Zimbabweans regularly sought treatment and collected their antiretroviral (ARV) drugs at the government-run clinics in the Parirenyatwa and Harare hospitals, and he could not watch other HIV-positive people suffering.
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| Double infection: HIV and conservative ideology |
27 November 2008
Clink. Boom. Screech. Stop in your tracks. Out of the amiable political correctness of empowering widows and paying home-based carers, comes a sudden, jarring dissonance. A representative of JournAIDS, a group of Malawian journalists who specialise on the epidemic, presents his group?s support for mandatory HIV testing for pregnant women. Not routine testing, the standard practice in Malawi. Mandatory. |
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| Police Scale Up Violence Unit to Prevent Abuse of Women and Children in Ghana |
27 November 2008
HO, Ghana ? Assistant Commissioner of Police, Beatrice Vib-Sanzire, is a woman on a mission. This modern-day crusader as head of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) wants all children and women in Ghana who suffer in silence to know that they can come to the police to get the support they need to end their abuse. |
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| The AIDS scare was one of the most distorted, duplicitous and cynical public health panics |
26 November 2008
Finally we have a high-level admission that there is no threat of a global Aids pandemic among heterosexuals. After 25 years of official scaremongering about western societies being ravaged by the disease ? with salacious, tombstone-illustrated government propaganda warning people to wear a condom or "die of ignorance" ? the head of the World Health Organisation's HIV/Aids department says there is no need for heterosexuals to fret. |
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| ZIMBABWE: Global Fund deadline missed |
23 November 2008
The future of Zimbabwe's AIDS programmes hangs in the balance after the government failed to meet the deadline of Thursday 6 November to return over US$7 million to the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Earlier this week, executive director of the Fund Michel Kazatchkine warned that no future grants from the aid agency would be awarded until the remaining US$7.3 million had been transferred to commercial banks by the due date. |
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| Boys of Mass Destruction |
11 November 2008
In a twist of realism, a new feature film, ?Johnny Mad Dog?, uses a cast of actual ex-child soldiers from Liberia to portray the violent lives of youth forced to participate in armed conflict.
The original script was adapted from Emmanuel Dongala?s acclaimed book ?Johnny Chien Mechant?. Johnny, 15, and his small commando unit comprised of young boys ages 6 to 15, rip through an unnamed African country, terrorising and slaying everything in their path.
Director Jean-Stephane Sauvaire contrasts this lengthy killing spree with the narrative thread of Laokole, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, who along with her disabled father and young brother, are forced to flee their city, occupied by child-soldier militias.
Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier and now an internationally known rapper, told IPS at a screening of the film at the United Nations in New York, ?The escaping of refugees and the fear in people?s eyes in the movie took me back to a journey that I once experienced myself.? |
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| Liberian Men and Women Unite to Fight Rape |
27 October 2008
MONROVIA, Liberia ? Twenty-one-year-old Aminata Keita remembers the exact moment when attackers broke into her home. The four men, armed with guns and knives, stormed the house at 3:35 on the morning of March 28, going from room to room gathering money and any other valuables they could find. After they were finished robbing the house, they took turns raping her and her 20-year-old niece, Makula. |
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| Campaign Says 'No' to the Sexual Violence that Rages in DRC |
19 September 2008
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo ? In mid-March hundreds of Congolese women, men and girls raised banners that read, Together, let us say No to the silence, for the dignity of the Congolese and Enough sexual violence!. |
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| Actor Isiah Washington Helps Children In Sierra Leone |
5 August 2008
Actor Isaiah Washington has launched a new campaign through his Gondobay Manga Foundation and is aiming to help improve the lives of one million children in Sierra Leone.
With the ?Reach One Million? campaign, Washington is hoping to raise a minimum of $250,000 to help with social and economic issues in the West African republic. |
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