Dr Morna Cornell, University of Cape Town Men make up slightly less than half of the adults living with HIV across the world. Yet they account for nearly 60% of the AIDS related deaths. This is one of the observations from the The Lancet Commission on HIV, which looked at the global response to the pandemic. According to the report, the key driver of this gender difference in health outcomes between men and women is that men use health care services less than women. This isn’t a new observation: for more than 10 years antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes in sub-Saharan…
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Laugh Quote “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”– Alan Dundes Wise Guys Answer To Stupid Question Question: Do you need to eat that? Wise Guy: I thought that you were a barrister, are you also a dietitian? Teacher And Student Where have all the pencils gone? A student to his teacher: “I haven’t got no pencil.” Teacher, correcting him: “You don’t have any pencil. He doesn’t have any pencils. We don’t have any pencils.” Student, with a look of astonishment: “Where have all the pencils gone?” Corny Chat Up…
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Traditional and Contemporary focuses on Ankara fabric spliced with contemporary tailoring. African fashion has taken a spike in creative designing over the years and we are ultra-excited to be documenting its progress one stylish picture at a time. Every Fashion Friday, we’ll be surfing through social media streets to find design inspirations for our Pride Woman (which is you, by the way). See our weekly style catalogue. View this post on Instagram A post shared by African fashion (@africanfash) on Dec 4, 2019 at 4:16am PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by Per Yard Ankara Shop (@peryardankarashop) on Dec 6,…
This past weekend, I joined a friend who is a photographer for a photo walk (a term which basically means ‘snapping pictures while walking on the street’ – It’s a thing amongst documentary photographers, I suppose). The aim was to capture candid images of everyday people, often in their element, but as simple as it seemed, it was daunting (yet, exciting). I can tell you for a fact, the resting face of almost everyone we encountered wasn’t a pleasant or inviting one. We could tell that they had been pummelled by manmade and natural forces. Perhaps, if we had asked,…
Nicola Carroll, University of Huddersfield Given that one in four children now grow up in one-parent homes and that 42% of marriages end in divorce you might expect prejudice against single parents to be a thing of the past. Yet a 2014 poll found that 75% of single parents had experienced stigma. Indeed, Boris Johnson has recently been confronted about a column he wrote for The Spectator in 1995 which described the children of single mothers as “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate”. When pressed on the comments by callers on LBC radio, Johnson said this was written before he was…
Danai Mupotsa, University of the Witwatersrand I remember the first time that I wrote a love letter. I was nine years old and it said something along these lines: Dear Parham, I like you very much because you are clever. Sadly, our affections were not mutually shared. Parham reported me to his father, who worked at the same company as mine. Instead of a reply, I got a sit-down with my dad who explained that I should probably spend my time paying closer attention to my schoolwork. Despite this disappointment, I continue to carry an attachment to the love letter.…
Somewhat like engineering, the tech space used to be a great example to buttress the argument of gender inequality caused by warped societal beliefs – like the “being a nurse is a woman’s job while being a doctor is a man’s job” ideology. Fast forward to a more progressive time, like now, and there are more women in the tech space than rustic minds would have imagined. (And, of course, there’s still room for more women.) Cue in our Woman Crush Wednesday and country director at Google Nigeria, Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor. Being at the helm of affairs of such magnitude is…
My beloved daughter, You must be familiar with the adage – “Slow and steady wins the race.” When you set your mind to accomplish anything in life, you need to keep this adage in mind. Everything one sets out to achieve in life requires patience, resilience and the understanding that most worthwhile accomplishments do not happen overnight. Nature teaches us that nothing in the process of life and living is instant coffee. In nature when you sow a seed, you need to tend to it before you can reap from what you sowed. But since we now live in a…
Earlier this year, there was a ton of speculation regarding the marriage of Nollywood actors, Gbenro Ajibade and Osas Ighodalo after he called out Osas of Instagram for being a negligent mother. According to him, rather than caring for their child, she spent nights partying and hanging out with friends. Although Osas graciously publicly ignored the accusation, it pointed at trouble in paradise. This speculation was right. Recently, during an interview with Rubbin Minds on Channels Television, he revealed that they are currently divorced and are co-parenting their only child. When asked if he and Osas were still married, Gbenro said,…