"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
“Growing up I used to watch one of my brothers work on experiments,” says Pascaline Fonteh, “and I knew that I also wanted to be a scientist.” Fonteh grew up in Bamenda in the Northwest Province of Cameroon as the last of eight children in a very scientific family, with her three older brothers and three of her four sisters all majoring in the sciences during their tertiary studies.
NAIROBI/DAR ES SALAAM - New maps pin-pointing the exact location of “wellness centres” in sub-Saharan Africa are improving truck drivers’ access to treatment and care for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
KAMPALA – The European Union is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in this low income East African country. Some 90 percent of medicines used in Uganda’s health-care system are imported, of which about 93 percent are generics.
About 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a new strategy is being launched to better respond to the needs of women and children. The research agenda – called Asking the Right Questions – includes 20 specific recommendations to expand and improve care and treatment. The initiative is a joint effort by the International AIDS Society (IAS), U.N. agencies, researchers and civil society.
The United Nations and MTV are reaching out to young Kenyans to highlight that HIV is not a death sentence through a new three-part television series exploring the lives and love of a group of friends in Nairobi.
IRIN series “Heroes of HIV” – a powerful and moving series of short films on HIV/AIDS – closes with Elizabeth Ngugi, a university professor and former nurse who has dedicated the last twenty years of her life to help girls and women trapped in Kenya’s sex trade. Since 1989 she has helped more than 600 sex workers retrain and find alternative incomes.
By IRIN – www.irinnews.org
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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