African Woman and Child Feature Service

Women want fair share of Constitution spoils

As the country gears up to the promulgation of the new Constitution on August 27, the women of Kenya under the umbrella of G-10 are already worried that their hopes might be shattered if the spirit of the Constitution is not captured from the onset in the Constitutional Oversight Implementation Committee.

During a planning meeting to set up their priority areas within the implementation process, the women said they do recognise and affirm the importance of the implementation process and that is why they are calling upon the political leadership to honour the letter and spirit of the new Constitution by ensuring that women's issues are taken seriously and are not glossed over.

Workshop on Reporting on Reproductive Health

The Media Diversity Centre (MDC), a project of African Woman and Child Features Service is organising a workshop for journalists on reporting on reproductive health. The workshop is a two-day event bringing together correspondents from various parts of the country.

The workshop will cover various topics such as the importance of Reproductive Health reporting, Maternal Health in the context of MDG 5, Ethical issues in reporting on Reproductive Health, Media Ethics and using internet resources to enrich your stories

The Media Diversity Centre works with correspondents to produce a bi-monthly online newspaper The Reject. For the past three months,it has also been inserting the newspaper in The Star to reach a wider audience countrywide.

Doctors baffled by HIV+ persons neutralising the virus without ARVs

Scientists are following with keen interest an HIV positive pregnant woman who has managed to control the amount of the virus in her body at undetectable levels for the past nine years without being on drugs.

Now four months pregnant, doctors want to see if she can deliver an HIV negative baby without using ARVs or caesarean section, the key interventions used to significantly cut-down the chances of the mother transmitting the virus to her unborn baby.

Kenyans to be buried in cardboard coffins

Kenyans are likely from next month to start burying their dead in coffins made from corrugated cardboards or cartons following a local company decision to invest in this venture.

The first samples of such coffins, the Eco Jeneza, have already been made and are on display in some major coffin outlets in the city.

AWCFS wins Highway Africa Award 2010

The AWCFS website (www.awcfs.org) was selected winner of the Not-for-Profit-Category in the  2010 Highway Africa New Media Awards held in Grahamstown, South Africa between the 5th & 7th July 2010.

Mobile phone and internet interface to revolutionize farming

In an attempt to help farmers in Kenya and sub Saharan Africa improve their productivity, a group of scientists known as geospatial experts have develop an internet based information hub that will avail instant information to farmers on relevant seeds and potential markets for their produce.

Dubbed a “commons” approach, the service is aimed at offering appropriate farming techniques and markets to farmers as a motivation to improve their productivity.