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WFP Eswatini Country Brief, November 2020
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US$ 4.2 million cash-based transfers made between January and November 2020
US$ 6.1 million six-month (December 2020-May 2021) net funding requirements
114,753 people assisted in November 2020
Operational Updates
• WFP provides social safety nets for 55,000 orphans and vulnerable children under 5 years at the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs) in Eswatini through access to food and basic social services.
• WFP works with the Government in implementing a sustainable, nutrition-sensitive, shock-responsive national school meals programme. The pilot Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) project started in September 2019, targeting 50 schools and 24,392 students. WFP works with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to empower local smallholder farmers to provide schoolchildren with food that is safe, diverse, nutritious and local.
Caroline Ash
Several sub-Saharan countries have been prioritized by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) for HIV elimination. This will require 90% treatment coverage by the end of 2030, but poor transport infrastructure means incomplete access to medication in some countries. Palk
et al. developed a geospatial model for understanding the difficulties of reaching health care facilities in Malawi, a country severely affected by HIV. They mapped health care facilities with the density of HIV prevalence and quantified the difficulty of travel across Malawi s landscape by a friction surface raster map. If bicycles are used, then the catchment size for a health care facility is substantially larger than if people walk, and the required 90% treatment coverage for elimination becomes achievable. Bicycles are already used as “ambulances” in rural areas, but Malawi s bicycle fleet is small and in poor repair. One straightforward route for beating HIV (and many other
Consequences of the Lag in Education on Gender and Rights Published: - Dec 10, 2020
World AIDS Day takes place on December 1 of each year and marks the importance of this day to talk about the effect of HIV on adolescent girls and young women.
The Woman Post | Lina Daniela Cardona Aguilar
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The disproportionate impact of the spread of HIV around the world has been concentrated on girls and young women. According to Avert, in 2017, 7.000 adolescents and young women tested positive for HIV. This rate is much higher than that of young men.
Put human rights at the centre of our battle against Covid-19
10 Dec 2020
Excessive force: Men protest while pulling a cart carrying the body of Vitallis Ochilo Owino in the Mathare slums of Nairobi on May 4. He was allegedly beaten to death by police officers while walking in the streets after curfew hours imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo: Luis Tato/AFP)
Throughout history, people have faced pandemics: the bubonic plague, smallpox, influenza, HIV and now Covid-19. Pandemics affect people of every creed, colour and class. But they do not affect everyone equally. These health crises expose the ugly fault lines within our societies. Inequality, marginalisation, poverty and other human rights barriers to healthcare dictate who gets infected and who dies and have a devastating impact on vulnerable communities.