Region: Eastern Africa
Misconceptions About Attitudes Toward AIDS in Africa
(November 2007) As the world prepares to observe World AIDS Day on December 1, researchers and policymakers alike will take stock of what’s working and what isn’t in the battle against the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Community Theater and Peer Education Help Tanzanians Discuss HIV and Gender-Based Violence
(2007) Cheza Chezeka is unfaithful to his partner, engages in unsafe sex, and acquires a sexually transmitted infection. Fikirini, on the other hand, learns how to communicate and resist sexual temptation and peer pressure.
Egypt Bans Female Genital Cutting
The Egyptian Health Ministry issued a decree on June 28, 2007, that officially banned female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM) or female genital cutting (FGC).
Long-Held Assumptions Pose Obstacles in the Fight Against Domestic Violence
(June 2007) In the fight against gender-based violence, deeply embedded attitudes can pose formidable obstacles to change.
Database Provides Information on Hundreds of Kenya Organizations
(June 2007) With hundreds of organizations working throughout Kenya to implement population, health, development, gender, and environment programs, how do you know who is doing what and where?
Guidelines for Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Coastal Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management
(April 2007) To combat the threats of HIV/AIDS and ecological decline, the report Guidelines for Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Coastal Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management describes the problems that lie at the intersection between AIDS, gender, population, and coastal biodiversity conservation and resource management.
Community Action Addresses Population Impacts on the Environment
(2007) Many developing countries possess abundant natural resources, but these resources can be threatened by population pressures and poverty, among other factors.
PRB Discuss Online: Who Is Malnourished or Hungry in the World? Why? What Can We Do to Help?
(December 2006) How many malnourished or hungry people are there in the world, and why? Is the situation improving or worsening?
HIV/AIDS and the Natural Environment
(2006) Still, at least one research and policy dimension remains little explored: The relationship between HIV/AIDS and the natural environment. HIV/AIDS is shaping society’s impact on the natural environment in myriad ways and at many levels.