| UGANDA: HIV-positive women need family planning services, study shows |
 NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals.
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YEMEN: Too many kids out of school in Hodeidah Governorate - report |  HODEIDAH, 19 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Nearly half of children in rural areas of the western Yemeni governorate of Hodeidah, have no access to basic education, according to a new report by the Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection (SOCP) and the Yemen News Agency.
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AFGHANISTAN: Schools to reopen for exams after H1N1 shutdown |  KABUL, 17 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - The government has decided to reopen all schools from 23 November to 12 December to allow 7.5 million schoolchildren across Afghanistan to take exams.
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KENYA: The million man cut |  KISUMU, 17 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - The Kenyan government is expanding services to meet the growing demand for voluntary medical male circumcision after the launch of a national campaign a year ago.
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UGANDA: AIDS Commission takes new direction in prevention |  KAMPALA, 16 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped.
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PAKISTAN: New schools in quake-hit areas offer improved education |  MUZZAFARABAD, 15 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Rameesha Butt, 12, remembers being trapped in her classroom as the horror of the October 2005 earthquake that killed at least 73,000 people in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Pakistan-administered Kashmir unfolded around her.
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NIGER: Reinforcing sex education in high schools |  NIAMEY, 12 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - High school students in the Niger capital, Niamey, learned to put HIV/AIDS and reproductive health in a broader context during a recent essay contest.
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TAJIKISTAN: Struggling to learn in cramped, dangerous classrooms |  RUDAKI, 11 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Six months after floods hit parts of southern-central Tajikistan, damaging or destroying dozens of schools and other buildings, hundreds of students are still attending school in overcrowded and sometimes unsafe buildings, according to local teachers and officials.
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KENYA: More education needed on emergency contraception |  NAIROBI, 10 November 2009 (PlusNews Global) - Three years after the Kenyan government began to promote emergency contraception as part of its family planning strategy, the “morning-after pill” remains as controversial as ever: critics argue that unless the public is better educated about its purpose, it risks undermining the messages of abstinence and protected sex, putting impressionable young people at risk of HIV.
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KENYA: In and out of school in Samburu |  LESIDAI, 10 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Many Kenyan children are in school, but enrolment in the north has been adversely affected by insecurity, food scarcity and traditional attitudes, residents and teachers said.
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