Archive for June 24th, 2008
Insecurity & Education Hold Kenyan IDPs in Camps
Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN
Samuel Karanja at Naivasha stadium camp for internally displaced Kenyans
NAIVASHA, 24 June 2008 (IRIN) – Samuel Karanja was a resident of Narok North district in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province until he was displaced in the post-election violence this year.
Karanja, a former shop-owner, has spent the past six months in two internally [...]
Kenya HIV/AIDS: The Cutting Edge (multimedia)
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
Boys waiting to be circumcised at Migosi health centre, Nyanza
KISUMU, 24 June 2008 (PlusNews) – The reproductive health NGO, Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK), has started a mobile circumcision pilot project in the western, largely non-circumcising province of Nyanza.
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IRIN/PlusNews recently visited one MSK mobile clinic in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Mind Your Language – A Short Guide to African HIV/AIDS Slang
Photo: Anthony Kaminju/IRIN
Word play
JOHANNESBURG, 18 June 2008 (PlusNews) – HIV has hit our lives, our families, our economies; it also shapes the way we talk. IRIN/PlusNews looks at how the virus and its impact translates into everyday speech from the streets of Lagos to the townships of Johannesburg, and finds that despite the [...]
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