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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
November 25 - December 10, 2008
December
Kenya Audio Visual Archives Conference
December 3 - 05, 2008
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Mock Tribunal on Sexual Violence Cases
November 25, 2008

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Discordant couples: Men who Support HIV Positive Women PDF Print E-mail
The married life for Peter and Jane was blissful until mid this year when the unthinkable happened: Jane abandoned him, left their six year-old son in his care, and got married to another man.

Having given her the love and support she deserved, Peter found it difficult to reconcile his wife’s action.

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Another world is possible when we all are Equal! PDF Print E-mail
THE second day of the World Social Forum was not just about camaraderie and colour, it also saw the most compelling and attention-catching assembly and display of slogans by gender activists from all over the world.

In their diversity, tenor and colour, each of the messages as proclaimed affirmed in the most tacit way, “Equality for Women Now!”

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KNH makes HIV testing a routine practice PDF Print E-mail
Three years ago, it was seen as wishful thinking when it was suggested that patients consulting hospitals undergo routine HIV testing. But a new practice at KNH that allows doctors to make HIV test one of the many tests patients should undertake when they present with certain symptoms or illnesses attributable to the disease is turning everything into reality.
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Volunteers overwhelm HIV vaccine scientists PDF Print E-mail
ImageScientists conducting the AIDS Vaccine trials have received volunteers in excess of what they needed, forcing them to stop the recruitment process.

And for the first time, over 30 percent of those participating are women compared to less than 10 percent who did so in the first vaccine trials, which failed to produce the desired results.

 

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Demand for breast reduction on a steady rise PDF Print E-mail
Several women who want to look gorgeous and curvy in the right places are trooping to hospitals and spending dearly to have their breasts condensed to sizes that are firm like those of teenagers.
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Here Comes a Before Sex Aids pill PDF Print E-mail

Scientists in the US, Ghana, Botswana and Thailand are conducting trials on 6,600 people on the use of a drug which has been shown to offer protection against HIV infection even while engaging in unprotected sex.

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In the Shadow of Death

Shadow of Death

The book, In the Shadow of Death: My trauma, my experience is public testimony on what the majority women went though during  the post-election violence  that engulfed Kenya immediately after the Electoral Commission of Kenya announced the results for the hotly-contested presidential polls of the December 2007 General Election.

The crisis brought to the fore a number of factors that separate our society but for long have been ignored by successive post-independence governments: poverty, land, inequality, tribalism, among others.

 
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
16 days of Activism against Gender-based Violence This year's theme for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is 'Human Rights for Women, Human Rights for All'
 
Kenya Audio Visual Archives Conference

The African Woman and Child Feature Service, the Kenya Archival Study Group and the Ford Foundation office in Nairobi, Kenya will hold the Preservation, Conservation and Restoration of Audio Visual Media Conference. 

The conference will be held at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, from December 3rd – 5th 2008.

Visit the Conference Site to find out more 

 

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