Cameroon
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Project Hope rallies community support to help families cope with AIDS in Cameroon
NJINICOM, Cameroon, 1 July 2008 – Eric Nking and his wife Mary Mbeng are raising 10 children. Besides four of their own, they take care of the four children of Eric’s deceased sister and two other orphaned children who are unrelated to them.
Providing protection and emotional care for children living in camps in Cameroon
KOUSSERI, Cameroon, 20 May 2008 – The bridge connecting Kousseri, Cameroon to N’djamena, Chad takes about five minutes to walk across, but in the hot afternoon sun, it might feel like much longer – especially if the bridge is crowded, as it was in the first days of February when tens of thousands fled violence between the Chadian military and rebel forces.
Working to combat infant and child malnutrition in Cameroon
KOUSSERI, Cameroon, 15 May 2008 – The UNICEF warehouse in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon is filled with therapeutic milk and supplementary foods like 'Plumpy’nut' – all stocked in recent weeks to help battle malnutrition in several key provinces and in camps for families displaced by violence in neighbouring Chad.
UNICEF helps protect children and families at risk on the Cameroon-Chad border
KOUSSERI, Cameroon, 6 May 2008 – According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, about 8,000 people, including over 2,800 infants and children, are currently living in Maltam Camp, a refugee settlement in northern Cameroon. For these displaced families, all taking refuge from the violence in southern Chad, time seems to stand still.
UNICEF and Cameroon work to improve conditions for juvenile prisoners
DOUALA, Cameroon, 14 April 2008 – Pascal is just 14 years old, but he is already living behind bars, as one of 85 juvenile inmates doing time in Douala’s Newbell prison.
In Cameroon, changing attitudes and safe water mean more girls in school
MBANG, MBOUM, Cameroon, 13 June 2007 – In the village of Mbang-Mboum, traditional attitudes toward girls have long kept them out of school. Domestic chores fall to girls and women, and essential tasks like carrying water for the household take precedence over education.
With mothers’ help, more girls are going to school in Cameroon
GAYAK, Cameroon, 25 May 2007 – In a small village in the northern part of Cameroon, a group of women, both young and old recently gathered to sit under a mango tree. Gayak is in the poorest region of Cameroon where as many as 4 out of 10 people live below the poverty line.
In Cameroon, a family living with HIV faces difficult choices
NJINIKOM, Cameroon, 10 July 2006 – Virginia, 26 and John, 31, both of whom are living with HIV, are Cameroonian peasant farmers with two children, Mary and Francis (not their real names). Encountered at the youth friendly center at St. Martin de Porres’ Hospital here, they disclosed that the purpose of their visit was a medical check-up for Francis, who also has the AIDS virus.
Cameroon launches UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, 30 March 2006 – The MTN Foundation signed an agreement with UNICEF earlier this month to help fund HIV/AIDS efforts here, including the training of young peer educators, voluntary HIV testing and counseling, and care for people living with AIDS.
Cameroon: Peer educators help fight HIV/AIDS
DOUALA, Cameroon, 16 June 2005 - City streets and back alleys have become a battleground in the fight against AIDS in Cameroon. In a country where more than half the population is under the age of 25, young people are up against a deadly opponent. The HIV prevalence rate among people aged 15-49 years in Cameroon is 6.9 per cent, one of the highest in the region.
Cameroon: Integrated approach helps cut parent-to-child HIV transmission by half
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, 6 June 2005 – Every year, about 600,000 children around the world are infected by the HIV virus during the mother's pregnancy, during birth or through breastfeeding.
