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Helping orphaned and vulnerable kids in Swaziland. The combined holiday and volunteer four-week project that I choose involves camping under the stars and tracking the bush's Big Five in South Africa's Kruger Park and swimming...
Source: IRIN Simmering animosity and tension between non-governmental organizations and the conservative authorities of donor-dependent Swaziland are threatening to boil over, bringing legislation that could restrict the...
As sub-Saharan Africa is critically affected by HIV hope has been rejuvenated in pursuit of finding an HIV vaccine. Researchers led by the International AIDS Vaccine Institute (IAVI) said the two new antibodies revealed what...
MBABANE, 15 September 2009 (IRIN) - Average life expectancy in Swaziland has plummeted from around 60 years in the 1990s to just over 30 years today. Few would deny that HIV/AIDS is largely to blame, but the reasons why the...
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has said relevant authorities will handle former president Frederick Chiluba's demands for his US$8.5 million from the Zamtrop account after a magistrate's court acquitted him of theft allegations.
When a Swazi women's rights organisation noticed that many women continue to stay in violent relationships because they are financially dependent on their abusive partners, they knew something had to change. They started...
MBABANE, 31 July 2009 (PlusNews) - Swaziland's correctional services are using the confinement of prisoners as an opportunity to reach this high-risk group with HIV testing and treatment. "Our goal is to test every prisoner in...
David GI4FUM is organising a DXpedition to Swaziland as the result of a request for an amateur radio station at an International scout camp which will run from July 31st until August 11th. The scout camp is near to Manzini. It...
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Defence and Security Sub-Committee analysed and submitted the dossier on admission of the regional body's Inspectors General workgroup into the structures of the Inter-state...
Mbabane — Anecdotal evidence that entrenched cultural beliefs among Swazis actively encourage the spread of HIV/AIDS has been confirmed by a joint government and UN report. The State of the Swaziland Population - echoes...
