Gender AIDS Forum (GAF) is a Durban-based South African Non Governmental Organisation committed to enabling a deeper consciousness in women and men about the links between gender and HIV and AIDS.
Zanempilo delivers holistic primary health care services to disadvantaged peri-urban and rural communities in the Western Cape through Community Health workers. South Africa.
AMREF is an Africa’s indigenous health charity, and in partnership with local communities, governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa’s health problems. Kenya.
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Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture
The Trauma Centre provides professional mental health services to victims of violence and torture primarily within the Western Cape Metropole region. South Africa.
Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)
TAC´s main objective is to campaign for greater access to treatment for for people with HIV/AIDS in South Africa, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments.
Ubuntu Education Fund
Their programs serve over 24,000 children and 13,000 adults with health and education initiatives "designed to make the opportunities of the New South Africa available to all South Africans".
Union of Health Care Committees - UHCC
UHCC works throughout Palestine and circulate its programs in remote and rural areas so as to guarantee the equality of offering medical services to people everywhere.
Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
UPMRC is a grassroots, community-based Palestinian health organization, founded by a group of Palestinian doctors and health professionals seeking to supplement the decayed and inadequate health infrastructure caused by years of Israeli military occupation. Palestine.
Human Rights
/Health
/Gender
- Fri Oct 10 2008
Lithuanian abortion vote looms beyond elections
Lithuania's parliament could soon vote on one of the most restrictive abortion bans in Europe.
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Women's News
Health
- Wed Oct 08 2008
Malaria: renewed fight against old killer
The key to a new multi-billion dollar strategy to eliminate malaria deaths worldwide by 2015 is to widen availability of existing diagnostic and preventative treatments.
Source:
IPS
What if HIV/AIDS was just another chronic disease instead of a widespread epidemic? This could be the case if the world community takes serious action, according to Human Rights Watch and other activists. But today, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on HIV/AIDS is nowhere near being realised.
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IPS
