Topic: East Africa
Dwindling funding for HIV/AIDS threatens to leave an estimated 10 million infected people without treatment in the developing world, making it one of 2009's Top 10 humanitarian crises, according to Doctors Without Borders. Other crises that made the list released by the ...
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia is sending text messages to mobile phone users offering free HIV/AIDS tests ahead of New Year celebrations, in a drive to have more people checked in sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous nation. "New Year! New Life! Test ...
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters Life!) - Boxing icon Evander Holyfield will fight in desperately poor Ethiopia for an undisclosed fee in a bout to raise money for HIV/AIDS charities. Organizers hope the clash in July between the four-time world heavyweight champion and little-known ...
Ethiopia will by 2010 see a four-fold increase in the number of orphaned children aged between nine and 19 who are heading families due to AIDS, poverty and conflict, a local NGO said on Friday. Some 225,000 households will be run by ...
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donate $2 million to help fight disease in EthiopiaAngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are giving back to the country where their 3-year-old daughter Zahara was born. The couple have donated $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and ...
Superstar couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated two million dollars to help children affected by AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia, announced the nonprofit group Global Health Committee (GHC) announced Monday. "The money will be used to create a center for ...
Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV. As one of some 14,000 Ethiopian children born with the ...
Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday pledged more support to combat HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, where he started a four-nation African tour. His Clinton Foundation announced the Horn of Africa nation will receive five million dollars over three years to help prevent ...
Photo Gallery
From Around the Web
Video Gallery
-
Miss East Africa UK 2007 Contestants ...
Interview with the 2007 Contestants prior to the show2007-09-08 -
Videographic: East Africa's drought
The Economist reports on how East Africa has too little ...2009-10-05 -
Fighting Piracy In East Africa
Africom, an ongoing US training mission in Uganda and other ...2008-11-30
