Wednesday 15 June 2011 by Alice Fay
Isabelle is a mother of four, who like hundreds of thousands of others, has been forced to flee her home during the outbreak of the civil war in Ivory Coast, following disputed presidential elections in November 2010.
Soon after we met, Isabelle showed me a picture of her and her children, taken on 1 January last year in better times. She is now 36, just 2 years older than me. She had her first child aged 16, and her fourth 6 years ago.
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Tuesday 22 March 2011 by Louise Holly
Many issues have a day devoted to them. This Thursday (24 March) is World TB Day and marks the date when the bacteria that causes tuberculosis was discovered by a German doctor back in 1882. This year there has been a long overdue focus on the impact of TB on children.
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Tuesday 8 March 2011 by Rachael Phillips
There was an article in the Metro today listing the poll results of the most influential and inspiring women of the last century. Names who made the grade included such inspirational figures as Emmeline Pankhurst, Millicent Fawcett, Justine Roberts and Moira Stuart. Topping the poll was the pop icon Leona Lewis, taking two-thirds of the votes, which tells us a lot about the perception of female role models today.
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Tuesday 25 January 2011 by Patrick Watt
As Sierra Leone rolls out the first vaccination programme against pneumonia, our latest report finds that further investment is needed from donors to bridge funding gap for vaccines.
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Monday 24 January 2011 by Sarah Williams
With every home-based carer I met I was struck by their dedication and devotion to the work they do. This is even more amazing when you consider that many of them aren’t paid. They really are some of the most amazing people I have ever met. Since the visit I have been struggling to write a blog that adequately summarises the impression they made…
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Wednesday 5 January 2011 by Simon Wright
On New Year’s Eve, the UK government released its new “Framework for results for improving reproductive, maternal and newborn health in the developing world.” With the title, Choices for Women, this strategy was the result of a major consulatation last year.
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Wednesday 1 December 2010 by Sanjana Shrestha
I met this nine-year-old fan of the Brazilian football team a few weeks ago. At that meeting he educated me on all the cool cartoons on TV like Dragon Ball, Pokemon and Ben 10. He also told me that he had loads of friends at school. He likes riding his bike, never goes to sleep without completing his homework and likes mathematics the best.
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Tuesday 30 November 2010 by Alice Fay
I was in Democratic Republic of Congo recently and met a young man, Jean Claude (not his real name), who is living with HIV. We are starting a new programme in DRC that’s responding to HIV, and I was very keen to have people living with HIV involved right from the beginning, so we invited some people who are open about their HIV status to join us for our start-up workshop.
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Monday 29 November 2010 by Sarah Williams
Sex, reproductive health and adolescents is often treated as a taboo subject, but it is something we need to talk about as silence is putting young people at risk. The tendency not to discuss girls and young women’s sexuality means girls are denied the information and resources they need to make informed decisions and protect themselves from unplanned pregnancy, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Thursday 25 November 2010 by Gulshun Rehman
Violence against women has been called “the most pervasive yet least recognized abuse of human rights in the world.” A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo might be having a positive impact. It adopts a family-centred approach where children and adolescents living with HIV and their communities are supported to challenge traditional gender roles and relationships.
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