Charlize Theron Speaks At United Nations Discussion On AIDS

Speaking at United Nations Headquarters in New York, the leaders of Kenya and Malawi co-hosted this week with the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) a high-level panel...

Kenya's Unique Approach To Rape Prevention Should Have The Rest Of The World Taking Note.

In 2010, the group No Means No Worldwide began offering self-defense classes to Nairobi schoolgirls, teaching them how to fight back against rape.

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Kenya Film Festival Aims To 'Change Story' Of Slums

Hundreds of movie lovers gathered in front of a giant outdoor screen in Nairobi’s Mathare slum on Monday at the start of the Slum Film Festival, which aims to challen...

How Vice’s Feminist Channel ‘Broadly’ Plans To Get Women Right

“TO BE HONEST,” Tracie Egan Morrissey tells me. “I actually don’t really care what men think or how they feel.”

It’s about ten m...

Mothers Helping Mothers To Live With H.I.V.

When Teresa Njeri got pregnant in 2001 in Kiambu, a suburb of Nairobi, it was the end of the world.   She was joyous about the pregnancy — but an AIDS test showe...

Maternal Mortality: Not Just A Human Rights Issue

Around the world, governments, non-governmental organizations and public health entities have made major strides in tackling some of the greatest health challenges facing c...

Measuring Maternal Health in a Post-MDG World

As the international development community looks back on the Millennium Development Goals and ponders what remains to be done under the proposed Sustainable Development Goa...

Measuring Maternal Health in a Post-MDG World

As the international development community looks back on the Millennium Development Goals and ponders what remains to be done under the proposed Sustainable Development Goa...

CAN MOBILE BANKING REVOLUTIONIZE THE LIVES OF THE POOR?

IN THE VILLAGE OF Sori along the banks of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, fishing has long been the lynchpin of the local economy. Jobs here are largely divided by gender: men...