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African Woman and Child maintains a constant flow of well-researched feature stories for local media. Our features cover development issues such as gender, governance, HIV/AIDS, poverty, security, conflict, economic inequality, environment, sustainable agriculture and health. We generate content for both traditional and new media on these and other issues, as well as the international conventions and other instruments which influence development in the region and elsewhere



Women want fair share of Constitution spoils

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Kenyan women must remain engaged and extremely vigilant of the Constitution implementation process.  Read more: http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Eblog/view/Women-want-fair-share-of-Constitution-spoils.html#ixzz0xY0uQ2q3 Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No DerivativesAs 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.

 

Doctors baffled by HIV+ persons neutralising the virus without ARVs

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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.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.

 

Aga Khan University to test locally developed contraceptive

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“At the moment, there is unmet need of a good spermicide in the market and that is why we are interested to test this one from IPR to establish if it could help fill this gap,” says Prof William Stones, the Chair, Obstetric and Gynaecology department at Aga Khan University.A locally developed contraceptive could be in the market soon if trials on its effect on the human sperm are successful.

The Aga Khan University is currently in consultations with Institute of Primate Research (IPR), a quasi government institution, on how the study is to be conducted at the University.

 

Kenyans to be buried in cardboard coffins

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The Eco Jeneza, photo courtesy of http://www.eapi.co.keKenyans 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.

 

Mobile phone and internet interface to revolutionize farming

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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.

 
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The Media and Diversity Journal is a research-based and peer-reviewed quasi-academic journal published three times a year in the months of April, August and December. It is published by the University of Nairobi’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the African Woman and Child Feature Service.

The Media and Diversity Journal (MDJ) is inviting submissions for its special issue on Identity and Conflict planned for December 2010.

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