African Woman and Child Feature Service

Highlights in this issue:

• Health care remains out of reach
• Negligence poses risk on health delivery
• IDPs say there is no turning back as they face elections
• Hope for physically challenged children as Bill is drawn
• Women seek to milk honey from beehives
• Monitoring early warning signs for violence must begin now
• Hate speech and the media, which way forward?

• Nurses adopt new regulatory frameworks
• Women scientists grant lies idle
• Community continues to shun rehabilitated urchins
• County council accused of sleeping on the job
• NGO intensifies campaign against gender based violence
• The changing face of child abuse

Highlights in this issue:

• Identity card nightmare
• All is not well in Turkana's oil field
• Schools in Nyeri county use chopper rides to motivate students
• Community sensitised on reduction of carbon emissions
• Radicalism among youth a threat to peace
• Progress in land reforms

World Population Day Special

Highlights of this issue:

• A people forgotten
• Investing in the population
• Triplets changed my family for the worse
• Patriarchy remains a major barrier to spaced births
• Without family planning, they trade child birth for school
• Uncertainty looms as HIV funding dwindles
• New health policy to boost devolved counties
• Breaking the chains of poverty through food security
• Tea pickers labouring under difficult circumstances

Day of the African Child Special

Highlights of this issue:

• No longer safe:Kenyan children at threat within the four walls they call home
• Challenges abound for Africa's urban child
• Beads for sex leaves girls enslaved to Morans
• Why sexuality must be part of the curriculum
• Climate change puts children in harms way
• Girls in largest school face enormous challenges