Monday, March 23, 2009

ZAMBIA - VISIT OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL


Quentin Bryce, AC, Governor General of Australia, talks to a patient in the female ward of the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka Zambia on the 20th March, 2009. This is the first ever official visit of an Australian head of State to Southern and Eastern Africa.

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Uganda - AIDS, ARV's and Hunger.....



Edith is is HIV positive and taking ARV's. She has two children, and her husband, who is also positive has another wife, so gives her no support. Edith's crops have failed because there has been no rain.

Every day she has to forage for food to feed herself and her children, and when she takes her ARV treatment she feels sick, because often, it is on an empty stomach. Uganda has pledged to give another 1500 HIV positive people ARV's but with no rain, failing crops, and increasing prices people cannot afford the food they need to make this treatment effective.

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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Kenya - Food Crisis


As the food crisis in Kenya deepens, 1200 children at a school in Kisii, Western Kenya, are given one free meal a day by a Scottish NGO, Mary's Meals, with the support of Tescos. For all of them it is a lifeline - as one child said "I come to school to eat."

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