01 December 2010

HIV prevalence has fallen by more than 25% among young people in 15 of the most affected countries according to the latest UNAIDS report. This shows how prevention messages around safer sexual practices are really making a difference and saving lives.

Sarah, 19, reported that there was a lack of awareness of sexual reproductive health issues, especially relating to family planning and HIV testing, in her home community of Lolikokwa, Karamoja.

Her observations are well founded. The Karamoja region of North-Eastern Uganda has been devastated by decades

LAMWO , 1 December 2010 (IRIN) - Uncleared minefields in northern Uganda's Lamwo district have prevented thousands of people displaced during the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency from returning home, officials said.

"These people can't go to their villages [in Agoro sub-county] unless the place is cleared and declared free of the landmines," local government official Mathew Ocen Akiya told IRIN. He said some 10,000 people were unable to go home because of the mines.

Among them is Geoffrey Onek, 59, who

Kampala, 1 December 2010 (PlusNews) - Life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) medication is reaching more HIV-positive Ugandans than ever before, but health workers are concerned about how they will deal with the inevitable rise in drug resistance.

An estimated 400 accredited facilities are providing about 218,000 Ugandans with ARVs, and more than 300,000 have enrolled on HIV treatment, but many patients have died and some have simply abandoned treatment.

Although studies show that ARV adherence is generally high, frequent drug stock-outs as a result of funding shortages

'Children and AIDS: Fifth Stocktaking Report' - released on the eve of World AIDS Day 2010 - highlights progress made on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Here is a related story.

By Thomas Nybo

KASESE, Uganda, 1 December 2010 - Hariet Tumushme, 28, is pregnant with her fifth child. Four months ago, Ms. Tumushme learned that she was living with HIV and began to worry that she would pass the virus to her child. To try to keep her child free of HIV, she

The morning has come after a restless, dark and tough night full of mosquito bites, homelessness, ridicule, abuse of women and children in Amuria, Kapelebyong community in north eastern Uganda. The day which would be busy with lots of buying and selling of goods could culminate into a night but a miserable one, when its pubs, powered by local candles and sometimes by generators and fuelled by the local spirit, Waragi, fill up with boisterous patrons looking for comfort. The night was full of starvation, disease, lack of shelter; a night full of morbidity and hopelessness.

I. Introduction

1. Le présent rapport est soumis en application de la résolution 1923 (2010) du Conseil de sécurité, par laquelle le Conseil a prorogé jusqu'au 31 décembre 2010 le mandat de la Mission des Nations Unies en République centrafricaine et au Tchad (MINURCAT) et m'a demandé, entre autres, d'achever avant cette date le retrait total de tout le personnel en tenue et de tout le personnel civil de la Mission, à l'exception des personnes indispensables à sa liquidation. Il rend compte de l'évolution de la situation depuis la publication de mon précédent rapport sur la MINURCAT,

Les principales activités du HCR au Burundi

- Protection et assistance de 41 831 réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile, dont 20 341 Congolais installés dans les camps de Bwagiriza (Ruyigi), de Gasorwe (Muyinga), de Musasa (Ngozi), 251 réfugiés rwandais vivant dans le site de Butare (Rutana), ainsi que 41 réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile de nationalités variées vivant dans les camps. De ces 41 831 réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile, le HCR au Burundi assiste sous diverses formes et veille également à la protection de quelque 21 198 réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile urbains, dont 98% sont originaires

- The ICC intervention in Kenya A challenge of delivering justice and peace

- The South Sudan referendum Domestic & regional security implications

- Anxieties and hopes in the Sudan

The ICC intervention in Kenya A challenge of delivering justice and peace

Introduction

This paper is about the reality of repatriation for Sudanese refugees in a context of political upheaval, a fluctuating security situation and a demanding economic environment. After decades in exile, almost a quarter of a million officially registered refugees in Uganda and similar numbers of unregistered refugees are considering the prospect of returning to Sudan. And many have already done so. Based on interviews conducted with refugees and returnees in northern Uganda and South Sudan, this paper is about the lives of individual Sudanese people