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Sexuality in the News in Africa August 03 - 21, 2009
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Below is a summary of newspaper articles and stories on sexuality related
issues from across Africa.
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SEXUALITY ISSUES IN AFRICA IN THE NEWS
1. *Nigeria**: Divorce a tool to relegate women.* 20/08/09
The high rate of divorce in Kano state, northern Nigeria has become a
worrisome phenomenon. Six months ago, an organisation of widows and
divorcees tried to stage a massive march through the city of Kano to draw
attention to their situation.
IPS News
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=48163
2. *South Africa**: South African teen wins 800m amid gender-test flap
*. 20/08/09
Facing questions about her gender, South African teenager Caster Semenya
easily won the 800-meter gold medal Wednesday at the world championships.
Her dominating run came on the same day track and fields ruling body said
she was undergoing a gender test because of concerns she does not meet
requirements to compete as a woman.
Behind the Mask
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=AfricaAbroad&id=2241
3. *South Africa**: Agony aunts dont do HIV.* 19/08/09
Dear Abby, Dear Dolly, Ask Amy - advice columns are always popular in the
print media, and South Africa is no exception. The "Agony Aunts" daily solve
problems about love, lust, romance and other relationships, but one thing is
consistently left off the page HIV
Plus News
http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85781
4. *Niger**: HIV-law shortcomings hit women harder.* 19/08/09
Despite a two-year-old law in Niger penalizing discrimination against people
infected with HIV, seropositive women say they still receive substandard
health care, are denied employment and risk losing their children because of
their status.
Plus News
http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85782
5. *DRC: Giving a voice to the victims of sexual and physical
violence.* 19/08/09
or nearly two and a half years, Roselidah Ondeko has been at work in the
eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), helping local women find
their voices to speak out about the epidemic of gender-based sexual and
physical violence in the region.
UN News Service
http://www0.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31801&Cr=Humanitarian+Day&Cr1
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6. *Malawi**: High-risk sex among those who do not exist* 18/08/09
A study on men having sex with men (MSM) in Malawi shows that, as elsewhere
in the developing world, this vulnerable group is at greater risk of
contracting HIV and AIDS than the general population. Moreover, their risk
status is exacerbated as governments fail to target them for health services
or information to stem HIV transmission.
IPS News Africa**
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=48130
7. *Uganda**: Women score victory against gender-based violence.*18/08/09
Women are celebrating a hard-won victory for gender rights after intense
public protests led to todays re-arrest of the countrys police boss a
self-confessed wife-killer.
IPS News Africa
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=48128
8. *Burkina Faso**: Some parents refuse testing children HIV.*18/08/09
Health authorities estimate that less than 25 percent of HIV-infected
children in Burkina Faso who require treatment are taking life-saving drugs
while thousands of at-risk children are undiagnosed because their families
refuse to have them tested.
IRIN News
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85765
9. *South Africa**: Circumcision should be the in thing.* 14/08/09
William Maiko, 18, waiting at the Bophelo Pele Male Circumcision Centre in
the township of Orange Farm, about 45km south of Johannesburg, South Africa,
is amazingly composed for someone about to have his foreskin surgically
removed.
Plus News
http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85726
10. *Senegal**: MSM have right to prevention and treatment.* 13/08/09
Academics and health officials in Senegal have called for decriminalisation
of homosexuality as a matter of public health, during a conference themed *HIV
and AIDS and Homosexuality in Senegal: The state of the Interdisciplinary
Research*. The one day conference was organized by the Sociology Club of
the University Cheik Anta Diop in Dakar and the Social Aspect of HIV/AIDS
and Health Research Alliance Program (SAHARA) on Wednesday 22 July 2009.
The decriminalization of homosexuality is a demand of the rule of law. The
fight here is not to prosecute adults who have consenting same sex relation,
but instead for those who are forced to have sex in forced marriage or
during rape, said Fatou Kiné Camara, Law lecturer at Cheik Anta Diop
University and deputy general secretary of the Association of Senegalese
woman lawyers.
Behind the Mask
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=senegal&id=2238
11. *Mali**: Threats of violence greet new family code.* 11/08/09
While rights groups are celebrating a newly-adopted family code in Mali that
changes marriage laws and expands girls rights, Muslim leaders and youths
have vowed, even threatening violence, to block the code from becoming law.
IRIN News
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85676
12. *South Africa**: Alarm over laws criminalizing HIV transmission.*08/08/09
Civil societies have criticized the so called African Model Law on
HIV/AIDS which they say hurts the fight against the spread of the disease.
African countries are increasingly passing legislation that criminalizes
HIV/AIDS exposure and transmission. The law was born out of a workshop four
years ago where participants from 18 countries met at a regional workshop in
N'djamena, Chad, to adopt a model law on HIV/AIDS for West and Central
Africa.
CISA
http://www.cisanewsafrica.org/story.asp?ID=4062
13. *Kenya**: Family planning: expand role for private sector.* 07/08/09
Dwindling donor support in the face of rising contraceptive demand,
combined with diminishing government budgets could make already widespread
shortfalls in the provision of contraceptives worse. African reproductive
health experts are suggesting that the private sector could be the key to
filling the gap.
IPS News
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=47996
14. *Burundi**: Burundian homosexuals suffer under new anti-gay law.*06/08/09
Homosexuals in Burundi say that their lives have been marked with
increased discrimination and fear following the East African countrys move
to ban homosexual practices. Burundi officially passed the law criminalizing
homosexuality in April this year.
Behind the Mask
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=burundi&id=2232
15. *Denmark**: Outspoken activitists defend Africas sexual diversity*.
05/08/09
The second World Outgames, held in the Danish capital, offered up a
veritable smorgasbord of sport, politics and arts while celebrating sexual
and gender diversity. But it also reminded participants that bigotry against
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, sometimes culminating
in violence, remains a scourge across the world.
IPS News
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=47977
16. *Mauritania**: Fighting AIDS in conservative Mauritania*. 04/08/09
Campaigners against HIV/AIDS in Mauritania face an uphill task to put
their messages across, especially those that deal with safer sex and condom
use. Campaigners have to cut corners in order to avoid angering the
country's powerful religious clerics.
IPS News
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=47951
17. *Malawi**: Malawian parliament bans homosexuality.* 04/08/09
Malawis Constitution Amendment Bill banning homosexual marriages was
passed on Thursday July this year, during a parliamentary sitting to pass
the 2009/2010 budget.
Behind the Mask
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=malawi&id=2229
18. *South Africa**: ABCs and HIV tests.* 03/08/09
A Johannesburg high school recently did something that for years has
only been whispered behind closed doors in education circles voluntary
counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV was offered to students.
Plus News
http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85561
19. *Rwanda**: Research puts Rwandan gays under spotlight.* 03/08/09
Research conducted by the Rwandan Ministry of Health together with
UNAIDS and the Centre for Non Linear Studies has revealed a high number of
men who have sex with men (MSM), a study that closes a gap of lack of
information about this group in Rwanda.
Behind the Mask
http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=rwanda&id=2227
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