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While our programs strive to provide females a life of choice, we understand that they continue to face discrimination in schools, communities,..

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This Zambian woman with incredibly long hair twice her height seeks Guinness World Record [Photos] - Face2Face Africa

This Zambian woman with incredibly long hair twice her height seeks Guinness World Record [Photos] - Face2Face Africa face2faceafrica.com Most people may have read about Asha Mandela, the Florida woman and native of Trinidad-Tobago who has earned the name “Black Rapunzel” for owning the Guinness World Record for “World’s Longest Dreadlocks.” There is also Aevin Dugas, a social worker from New Orleans, U.S., who made headline...

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Zambian Nonprofit Uses Movie, Plays to Help Wipe out Cervical Cancer There

Check out Rackellz Dreams again. Their founder, Robert, has joined Cecilia as a recipient of a Nelson Mandella Washington Fellowship.

Zambian Nonprofit Uses Movie, Plays to Help Wipe out Cervical Cancer There globalpressjournal.com Women in Zambia have the world’s fourth-highest rate of cervical cancer. After Robert Zulu’s wife died of cervical cancer in 2015, he founded a nonprofit and took a novel approach to raise awareness and get women into cancer screenings: producing plays and movies about the disease.

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New Treatment Prevents Sex Workers Getting HIV, But Leaves Them at Risk of STIs

According to the 2017 census, “1.1 million people were living with HIV in Zambia. Sex workers are one of the groups most at risk, with an overall..

New Treatment Prevents Sex Workers Getting HIV, But Leaves Them at Risk of STIs globalpressjournal.com In 2017, the Zambian government introduced a new treatment to curb the spread of HIV and wipe out AIDS entirely by 2030. The treatment is effective – but many are using it as a catch-all solution, making them vulnerable to other sexually transmitted infections.

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This inspiring leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. She is at the heart of all that our Bakashana family accomplishes…

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