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MANZINI, 20 May 2008 (IRIN) - Why are condoms so unpopular? This question has baffled and discouraged health experts for a decade, but in Swaziland the mystery of why men and women refuse to use condoms is slowly being unravelled by a project that is getting Swazi men to open up about their...
Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Amy Musgrave Johannesburg SOARING food prices will be under the spotlight at an African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) workshop starting in Pretoria today. Organisers said on Friday that the high level pan-African regional workshop would...
The provincial Nelson Mandela Children's Fund Youth in Parliament series kicks off in Johannesburg today. The series will involve nine provincial Youth in Parliament forums. Eight Southern African countries including Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia will also...
By Amy McConnell Schaarsmith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In the United States, drug therapy has tamed the most vicious effects of AIDS for many people, letting them live relatively long and healthy lives. Millions of other African children -- lacking the two doses of antiretroviral drugs that could...
Posted to the web 17 May 2008 Aileen Kwa Geneva The fate of the world's oldest customs union, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), is hanging in the balance as a result of the economic partnership agreements that most SACU countries have signed with the European Union (EU). Some in the SACU...
Posted to the web 16 May 2008 Petronella Sibeene Windhoek After months of suspicions, the Ministry of Health and Social Services on Thursday confirmed the country's first eight cases of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), which is resistant to four TB drugs. Minister of Health and...
Today the Hawk Takes One Chick by Jane Gillooly (2007, 72 min.). In Swaziland, in southern Africa, the circle of life has been turned on its head. Grandmothers?or Gogos?are forced to watch their adult children die of AIDS, and to raise their many grandchildren on their own. Today the Hawk Takes...
Image: Teaser: By Nivedita Saini India may boast of getting close to becoming a super power on one hand; however another ugly truth is that India shares space with less developed nations like Swaziland, Papua New Guinea and Nigeria, as far as the condition of mothers is concerned. It is ranked at...
The 2010 Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) brand has been unveiled by nine Southern African countries at Durban's Tourism Indaba 2008 in a bid to encourage tourism in these countries. ... Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland,...
Namibia through the Namibia Amateur Dance Sport Association (NADSA) reached another milestone on the sporting arena with the announcement that the country will from now on become the official headquarters of the newly established Southern African Dance Sport Federation (SADSF).
