Changing attitudes to HIV/AIDS in northern Nigeria

The Society for Family Health (SFH), Actionaid International Nigeria and Population Services International are jointly implementing a seven-year DFID supported program, Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV/AIDS reduction (PSRHH).

The project (branded "Make We Talk") will help to create, strengthen and support the adoption of healthy reproductive and HIV prevention behaviours among those most at risk of infection, working at the community level in selected sites in Nigeria. While most of the program efforts have been directed at preventing new infections, the adoption of protective behaviour by high risk groups has led to more people getting tested for HIV.

Experts draw link between tainted milk, kidney stones

SCIENTISTS in China and Hong Kong have established for the first time in a study that consuming the plastic-making chemical melamine can cause kidney stones in people.

At least six children died and 290,000 fell ill in China last year after consuming milk formula tainted with melamine, which was added to cheat protein tests. But the causal link between melamine and kidney problems the children suffered was never scientifically established until now.