Women & HIV

Women are fighting both a virus and systemic discrimination in trying to overcome the threat of HIV/AIDS. Across the world, they face a number of circumstances which increase their risk of HIV infection in gender-specific ways. Many women are exposed to sexual violence and coerced sex inside and outside marriage, including through harmful traditional practices such as genital mutilation, early marriage, and wife inheritance. They frequently lack information...More

Environment

Across Africa more frequent and longer droughts and unpredictable rainfall patterns are leading to a lack of food and loss of people's assets and crippling poor people’s ability to make a living. This year 11 million people in east Africa were at risk of starvation because of drought. Recently Kenya  was  affected by drought. Here, small changes can make a big difference....More

Water & Sanitation

The water crisis is due not only to the wave of droughts, but also to poor management of the water supply, under-investment, unfair allocation of water, rampant deforestation, pollution of water supplies by untreated sewage, and a huge population explosion (thirty-fold increase since 1900)..... More

Health & Povert

Health is a major symptom and cause of poverty. An ill child doesn’t experience a childhood of learning, growth and happiness. Where children do survive, the effects of ill health linger into adulthood. An ill child is likely to become an unhealthy adult with ongoing health issues..... More

Education