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HIV and AIDS in post-quake Haiti

5th July 2010 | by unicef | Haiti, HIV / AIDS | No Comments

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (July 2, 2010) — Jeanne* looks lovingly at her baby daughter Marie and carefully covers her cot with a mosquito net. She is sitting in the living room of a relative’s home in Port-au-Prince in the heat of the afternoon. For Jeanne, the birth of Marie in May was an extraordinary event. When [...]

After violence tears apart communities in Kyrgyzstan, a brittle calm settles in Alisher Navoi Street

5th July 2010 | by unicef | Emergency | No Comments

All along the Alisher Navoi Street, the scene is similar from house to house. Some of the buildings are just charred walls. Some have collapsed completely. Others bear bullet holes from intense gunfire. Field report by Rob McBride The street forms part of a poor ethnic Uzbek neighbourhood that saw some of the worst of [...]

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