Stories: Hiv
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What the rest of Africa could learn about AIDS
A UNFPA-sponsored program in Kolda, Senegal, provides HIV/AIDS education to students at area schools. Photo courtesy of Arthur Plews. KOLDA, Senegal -- The open-air classroom, ...
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Uganda grooms its future
KAMPALA, UGANDA - IN THE 46 years since gaining indendence from Great Britain, Uganda has moved from the murderously destructive era of Idi Amin and Milton Obote to more than two ...
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Cheap AIDS Drugs Bring Uganda Hope
Once a month, Jane Nandawula walks seven miles from her home to an AIDS clinic in Kasasa, a ramshackle collection of storefronts and huts clinging to a roadside in southwestern ...
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12 Gatekeeper Editors travel to Uganda
Health, environment, agriculture and economic development issues were the main focus of a 10-day visit to Uganda by 12 senior U.S. editors and producers who participated in the IRP ...
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Disease Detectives in Kenya
The World Health Organization reported that the H1N1 swine flu virus has now sickened just shy of 60,000 people. That’s the number of confirmed cases worldwide. Of those, just ...
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Where AIDS is a family affair
Kogelo, Kenya -- Accompanied by two HIV counselors, we left the Kogelo Dispensary, walked down a dirt road for a little while, and then veered off down a path that twists among ...