Women-led Initiative restoring hope for widows, orphans living with HIV in Nigeria

After 16-year-old Benard* was diagnosed with HIV, all he needed was meaningful engagement, counselling and proper medication to achieve viral load suppression and continue his normal life without being constantly down with sickness, but factors such as poor parental care, ignorance, non-adherence to a regimen, poor nutrition and poverty among other things deprived him of…

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Water shortage link to GBV

Leokadia Komba is a 33-year-old woman, who has three children struggling to return to her marriage after being chased by her spouse due to water shortage. “Every year women suffer due to shortage of water resulting from climatic change since wells dry up,” she said. “Climate change denied women rights in the village and caused…

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