Mercedes Sayagues
Mercedes Sayagues, a Uruguayan-born journalist, has lived in South Africa since 2001, when she was expelled from Zimbabwe, her home since 1992. Until May this year, she was the editor of the IRIN/PlusNews Portuguese service, and now freelances from her home in Pretoria.
AIDS, zombies, sex and death
Author: Mercedes Sayagues
Take your pick. What has shaped the slow and complicated South African response to AIDS?
President Thabo Mbeki's questioning if AIDS exists and the virus is sexually transmitted.
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Author: Mercedes Sayagues
Take your pick. What has shaped the slow and complicated South African response to AIDS?
President Thabo Mbeki's questioning if AIDS exists and the virus is sexually transmitted.
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The missing link in Africa's circumcision boom
Author: Mercedes Sayagues
Pull down your zipper. Pass the sterilised blade. One more foreskin removed. Good. We are closer to the target defined by (...insert name of your donor agency here). Next one, please.
Welcome to the male circumcision boom in Africa, marketed as the new silver bullet in the arsenal of AIDS prevention.
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Author: Mercedes Sayagues
Pull down your zipper. Pass the sterilised blade. One more foreskin removed. Good. We are closer to the target defined by (...insert name of your donor agency here). Next one, please.
Welcome to the male circumcision boom in Africa, marketed as the new silver bullet in the arsenal of AIDS prevention.
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Privileged diseases in Guinea-Bissau
Author: Mercedes Sayagues
BUBAQUE, Guinea-Bissau - Joao Domingos Gomes was 19 years old when he went to war for Guinea Bissau's independence. That was in 1969. He fought alongside legendary hero Amilcar Cabral and trained as a nurse in a guerrilla hospital.
Today, aged 57, he works in Bubaque island's public hospital, which serves some 35,000 residents of the Bijagos archipelago, off the capital, Bissau.
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Author: Mercedes Sayagues
BUBAQUE, Guinea-Bissau - Joao Domingos Gomes was 19 years old when he went to war for Guinea Bissau's independence. That was in 1969. He fought alongside legendary hero Amilcar Cabral and trained as a nurse in a guerrilla hospital.
Today, aged 57, he works in Bubaque island's public hospital, which serves some 35,000 residents of the Bijagos archipelago, off the capital, Bissau.
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