Showing papers in "Monday Developments in 2004"
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TL;DR: In Rwanda Africare has opted to concentrate its efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS on young people aged 14 to 24 years old in partnership with their parents local authorities schools local community-based organizations and anti-AIDS clubs.
Abstract: The number of HIV/AIDS orphans already in the hundreds of thousands is multiplying and overwhelming Africas traditional extended family coping mechanisms. The 1994 genocide and flight of Rwandans into neighboring countries contributed to the crisis by increasing the number of rapes destroying health networks and bringing hundreds of thousands of people in overcrowded refugee camps. It is estimated that over 300000 orphans and vulnerable children have been living in child-headed households since the genocide. Deaths due to HIV/AIDS will only serve to increase that number. In Rwanda Africare has opted to concentrate its efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS on young people aged 14 to 24 years old in partnership with their parents local authorities schools local community-based organizations and anti-AIDS clubs. Through activities designed to appeal to youth the project aims to raise HIV/AIDS awareness and promote prevention and care in semi-urban and rural communities. The partnership between Africare and young people in fighting HIV/AIDS includes community-based self-help counseling and education groups in Gikongoro Town and Karaba Districts of Gikongoro Province. (excerpt)
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TL;DR: Federal funding currently falls short of what is needed and threatens to undermine successes achieved to date according to a new report on child survival by Save the Children.
Abstract: Sobeda a mother in India never had the chance to name her baby. In- stead her child died within the first week of birth without a name. Each year millions of newborns like Sobedas child die without a name. The reason: death rates among infants remain so alarmingly high in many of the worlds poorest countries that it has become tradition not to name children until they are at least 1 month old. The staggering death rates among new- burns the need to improve maternal health care and to reach out to the poorest of the poor are three key areas that the United States and other rich nations need to address immediately if we are to make new inroads in saving more lives of children under 5. While U.S. leadership has made an enormous contribution in saving childrens lives over the past two decades federal funding currently falls short of what is needed and threatens to undermine successes achieved to date according to a new report on child survival by Save the Children. (excerpt)
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