By Mark Lyndon
If you read those reports btw, the level of knowledge about HIV is quite frightening. In Malawi for instance, only 57% know that condoms protect against HIV/AIDS, and only 68% know that limiting sexual partners protects against HIV/AIDS.
There are people who haven’t even heard of condoms. It just seems really misguided [...]
Story from BBC NEWS:
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s threat to ban circumcision so as to curb the spread of HIV/Aids has drawn strong reaction from traditionalists in the country.
The traditionalists say that such a move would be regarded as interference in people’s cultures and would be resisted strongly.
The circumcision of boys is practised by a [...]
By THABO MBEKI
Some elements of this orchestrated campaign of condemnation worry me very deeply.
It is suggested, for instance, that there are some scientists who are ‘dangerous and discredited’ with whom nobody, including ourselves, should communicate or interact.
In an earlier period in human history, these would be heretics that would be burnt at the [...]
Prime Minister Raila Odinga (left), and Labour Assistant Minister Sospeter Ojamong’ during the latter’s home coming party in Amagoro, on Sunday PHOTO: ISAAC WALE
Raila roots for male circumcision
By Stephen Makabila
Prime Minister Raila Odinga broke cultural barriers and urged communities to embrace male circumcision to reduce HIV prevalence.
Raila said research had proved circumcised men stood [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AFP) - Democrat Barack Obama piled up nearly eight million fundraising dollars in a single lucrative night, as anticipation built over his looming choice of White House running mate.
“I will win, don’t worry about that,” Obama told a crowd of 1,300 people at a fundraiser Sunday night in California, one of three [...]
BY JUDIE KABERIA
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has reignited the amnesty debate maintaining that post election violence suspects be released immediately.
Speaking during a Restorative Justice and International Law Conference in Nairobi Monday, the PM said the move would allow independent commissions to complete their investigations.
“The Waki and the Kriegler commissions should be given the mandate [...]
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