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The Importance of Talking to Your Children About Consent and Respect in Relationships

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As parents, it’s our responsibility to equip our children with the knowledge and skills they need to navigate the world with confidence and respect. One of the most important lessons we can impart is the importance of consent and respect in relationships. Consent is a fundamental principle in all forms of human interaction, but it’s […]

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Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention

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Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention Long-acting cabotegravir injections once every eight weeks was better than the daily tablet used for HIV prevention. Shutterstock Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, University of the Witwatersrand Women make up more than half of the people living with HIV around the world. Young women between the ages of 10

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Access to Child-Friendly Justice in Africa on the Day of The African Child

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Defilement, murder of three-year-old girl, by her mother’s lover in Kabisoge village in Bomet. The shooting of a 13-year-old boy by police enforcing the curfew in the prevention of COVID-19. News headlines we should never see if everyone is committed to the ideals of the Day of the African Child.  This day addresses different issues affecting

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Dignity in poverty

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I’ve watched with horror the conditions of living that lack dignity in Mathare slums when it rains from Boniface Mwangi’s video titled Kenya is an epic horror movie. How the houses are flooded, yet the people continue living in them because of lack of alternatives. I couldn’t finish watching the video. I have seen some

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Jennifer Schlecht (center, kneeling in a white shirt) had worked across Africa in humanitarian aid for issues affecting women. (Courtesy of New York Daily News)

Jennifer Schlecht’s Death Calls for Addressing Domestic Violence as a Global Problem

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Featured image: Jennifer Schlecht had worked across Africa in humanitarian aid for issues affecting women. (Courtesy of New York Daily News) I knew her colleague at Family Planning 2020 and still remember her colleague’s post vividly on Facebook. The NY Daily News story announced her murder, a week before the ICPD25- Nairobi Summit where she

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HPV Vaccination a Licence to Sexually Violate Minors?

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By Juliet Awuor. October 30th, Dorothy Kweyu wrote a commentary on the Daily Nation against the push for mass Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination of young girls. She argued that the vaccine would be a license to violate girls sexually. Though there are valid concerns in some of her assertions, for instance, parental protection of children against

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