The Daily IIJ

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has launched a new campaign, “Believe it. Do it,” aimed at bringing attention and action to the global goal of ending new HIV infections among children by 2015 while ensuring mothers living with HIV remain healthy. Read more http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2012/05/unaids-launches-believe-it-do-it.html

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By NEWTON SIBANDA LUSAKA, Zambia-CHRISTINE MULENGA has lived in Mufulira’s sprawling kanoyo township, on the fringes of MufuliraMine since 1998. She has not seen the economic benefits of the mining activities in her vicinity, but can attest to the toll it has taken on both her health and living environment.

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Amid worsening food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, international aid agencies respond to calls by the Gambia Government to help feed her people. The country suffered a serious drop in crop production in 2011 blamed on late and erratic rains. As a result, local citizens are already running out of food supply.

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For the first time in history one of the famous slum area in Freetown Susan’s Bay has got a modern health centre. This was a gift from save the Children International. Susan’s Bay was ranked as the home for typhoid, cholera and other diseases. The Susan’s bay community health center was constructed by Save the [...]

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Marking the 50th anniversary of the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society over the weekend, Sierra Leone’s biggest mobile network has been described as Red Cross society in Sierra Leone.

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This afternoon, Tony Blair, assisted first hand in the work of his Faith Foundation’s multi-faith malaria programme “Faiths Act in Sierra Leone”. He visited local people in Freetown alongside Christian and Muslim faith leaders delivering simple yet life saving malaria prevention messages to families.

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United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Michel Sidibe is calling on the African continent to seriously open debate on the need to support and sustain local production of HIV/AIDS commodities. Read more http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2012/02/unaids-boss-charges-african-continent.html

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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director, Michel Sidibe, touched down in Accra Wednesday afternoon on a three-day official visit to engage stakeholders in the health sector on national efforts at getting the deadly disease to zero. Read more http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2012/02/ghana-un-joins-strengths-toward-zero.html#more

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A local human rights agency in Banjul, the Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP) has called on the government to enact a specific law to protect girls from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The call came on Tuesday February 6, 2012 during celebrations marking International Zero Tolerance to FGM, [...]

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Multi-stakeholders including the United States, United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates governments and 13 pharmaceutical companies have joined forces to eliminate some 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020. Others are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank with some other global health organizations. Read more http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2012/01/multi-stakeholders-join-forces-to-fight.html

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