African Woman and Child Feature Service

Hope for TB patients as test kit is put up

A promising new and innovative diagnostic test will now enable doctors to detect more people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), thus increasing the urgency to respond to challenges of the pricing and supply of DR-TB medicines.

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Highlights in this issue

Revisiting the Bagalla Massacre
Poverty hampers adherence to TB, ARV treatment
Parents outwit system to circumcise daughters in Tanzania
From sniffing glue to vegetable farming
Man who raped blind girl yet to be arrested
Consumers' right being robbed by escalating food prices

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Legislation on land must ensure women enjoy their human rights

Recently, a very prominent doctor in Kenya who was operating from the Coastal town of Mombasa died. His brother, a pastor with the Anglican Church of Kenya in Ugenya, Siaya District decided that his widow had no business being in his house, as she had not had any children with him. The doctor and his second wife had married according to the community’s traditions and even held a church wedding to legalise their marriage after the death of his first wife. They had lived together for more than ten years.

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Strength of a Woman - Women, Land & Property

Strength of a Woman - Women, Land & Property

With this special issue on land and property rights, the Strength of a Woman, a product of the African Woman and Child Feature Service is again bringing you the untold stories of women, marginalised groups, challenges with the COK2010 and land policy and the need to connect the dots on issues with land using practical experience.

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