| 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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In Brief: HIV-positive cases jump to 556 in Afghanistan |  KABUL, 5 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Over 50 people have been diagnosed as HIV-positive in Afghanistan over the past nine months, bringing the number of registered cases to 556, according to the National HIV/AIDS Control Programme.
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MAURITANIA: Don’t abandon us, HIV-positive community tells donors |  NOUAKCHOTT, 5 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - People living with HIV in Mauritania are voicing their concerns about the suspension of HIV/AIDS funding by the World Bank and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They feel powerless in the face of the decisions, of which they are suffering the consequences.
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LESOTHO: A gift from the sky |  JOHANNESBURG, 21 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - When a place is so remote that you can only reach it on foot or horseback, a cash-in-transit operation is a real challenge - but Lesotho's Child Grants Programme (CGP) has overcome it with air support.
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MALI: HIV-positive children "missing" from health system |  BAMAKO, 14 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Parents are supposed to outlive their children, or so thought the grandmothers sitting in the children's playroom at Gabriel Touré hospital in Bamako, capital of Mali. They had all lost their children to AIDS-related illnesses, and met each other when they brought their HIV-positive grandchildren on hospital visits.
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LESOTHO: Child line offers hope and help |  MASERU, 8 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - The volunteer children's counsellor hangs up, visibly distraught: the latest call to Lesotho's toll-free child helpline was from a nurse in a remote village in the northern district of Butha–Buthe, where she had just helped an abandoned, mentally handicapped 16-year-old girl give birth.
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AFRICA: Why family is best for orphans |  NAIROBI, 30 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Africa's orphans will experience a richer, more wholesome childhood if they are raised within a family rather than in a childcare institution, according to speakers at a conference on family-based care for children in Nairobi.
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LESOTHO: A little money goes a long way |  MATHEBE, 28 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Despite her twisted spine and cataracts, Maphoka Tsolo, 91, still managed to lead the way down the steep narrow path behind her stone house in Mathebe, a small village in Mafeteng district, eastern Lesotho, determined to show why her orphaned great-grandchildren deserved the money from the government's cash grants scheme.
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ZAMBIA: The repercussions of suspending aid |  MPULUNGU, 25 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - A freeze in donor funding after allegations of Zambian government corruption is being keenly felt by those living with HIV in rural areas, which were receiving the lion's share of financial HIV/AIDS support.
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BURKINA FASO: Floods shut down hospital, HIV reference lab |  OUAGADOUGOU, 7 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Torrential storms that have led to at least seven reported deaths have also shut down Burkina Faso’s main hospital, interrupting dialysis treatments, preventing HIV diagnoses and overloading health centres ill-equipped to take on surgical cases.
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