Aids – What Is It?

Aids – What Is It?

Aids stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It means that it is infectious and can cause a weakened immune system and cause a group of health trouble. Aids is the final process in an infection called HIV. There is no cure for Aids at this time. It can be spread from [...]

HIV and AIDS in Older Adults… Part I

A goal of The Aging Suite is to help educate people about health issues and topics that impact the aging population.

Show Me the Way Foundation Officially Announces the 2008 Runway Red Celebrity Kids Fashion Show

The Show Me the Way Foundation has announced their Runway Red, the 2nd annual charity fashion gala featuring pint -size socialites, mini-me movers and shakers and their well-known celebrity parental escorts. As the culmination to their foundation’s 2008 Red Campaign, the Show Me the Way Foundation transitions making a difference into a family affair [...]

Volunteering in Ghana

Ghana is an African country that is situated right on the south coast of what we call the West African bulge. It shares its borders with Togo, Ivory Coast, Burkina Fasso and the mighty Atlantic Ocean. Ghana has always had a rich cultural and natural heritage. There is a narrow and small [...]

A SOCIETY OF CONTRADICTIONS

Psychoactive Substance Misuse Disorders

Poverty in Africa- please share your skills with us

Over the past two weeks I have written about my travels in East Africa last year and what poverty in Africa is really like and shared the views of folk I work with on the ground. In the last thread I wrote about the folk in Ruhanga  and the search for clean water Leaving [...]

Community Based Reintegration of Former Youth Combatants

Community Based Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: A Case Study Of The Lord?s Resistance Army In Northern Uganda
Muwonge J. Maxie
Human Rights, Peace and Development Worker and Researcher
Introduction
The specific context of any conflict, and the differentiating dynamics therein, inform the processes for resolving that conflict. In the case of northern Uganda Lord?s Resistance Army [...]

Drug Abuse

In essence, people can naturally detoxify toxic substances without support. Yet, with the growing amount of toxins that are being ingested into the body through water consumption, environment, and the food that people eat, can build up. Detox (detoxification) is a term that’s came into popular use in the last decade or so but [...]

Security Politics and Regional Integration: ASEAN, MERCOSUR and SADC

Introduction During the Cold War, Latin America, Southern Africa and even the dynamic Southeast Asia hardly figured in international politics. Studies on the Cold War politics and the scramble for security in other parts of the world, particularly in the industrial West mostly overlooked the Third World countries and their quest for security. [...]


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