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Lesotho cash-grants pilot programme aims to ensure vulnerable children’s rights
LEBAKENG, Lesotho, 18 November 2009 – Mapalesa Sebatanyane, 73, is the primary caregiver for her four grandchildren, but she struggles to feed them with the small income she earns raising chickens in this remote village.
Lesotho makes progress in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
MASERU, Lesotho, 30 September 2009 – With nearly a quarter of its adult population living with HIV, the Kingdom of Lesotho has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world.
New programme provides grants for orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho
MAFETENG, Lesotho 24 April 2009 – In the face of growing vulnerability and chronic poverty among children, the Government of Lesotho has launched a ‘Child Grants’ programme that will provide a regular and unconditional quarterly payment of about $38 to orphans and other vulnerable children, or OVC.
Insuring widespread access to treatment for HIV in Lesotho
MASERU, Lesotho, 3 February 2009 – In 2005, only about 20 children in Lesotho were receiving antiretroviral treatment. Three years later, a UNICEF partnership with Baylor College of Medicine’s International Pediatric AIDS Initiative has given treatment to nearly 2,500 children.
In Lesotho, mothers living with HIV tell their stories
MASERU, Lesotho, 21 October 2008 – In this small kingdom in Southern Africa – which has the third-highest HIV prevalence rate in the world, at 23 per cent – one in three pregnant women in antenatal care is living with the virus. At any given time, thousands of babies are at risk of contracting HIV as it passes from mother to child during pregnancy or birth.
UNICEF nominee Paul Farmer receives CDC Foundation Hero Award
NEW YORK, USA, 10 October 2008 – Dr. Paul Farmer, a tireless activist, researcher and public health practitioner whose organization, Partners in Health, provides community-based care for millions of people throughout the developing world, has received the 2008 Hero Award from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia.
UNICEF-supported clinic offers hope to those living with HIV/AIDS in Lesotho
MASERU, Lesotho, 4 June 2008 — In Lesotho, a country in deep poverty with one of the world’s highest rates of HIV and AIDS, Kananelo, 7, arrives with his grandfather at the UNICEF-supported Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence.
Toll-free child helpline to support children in Lesotho
MASERU, Lesotho, 2 May 2008 – In a monumental effort to reinforce its commitments towards children and their protection, the Government of Lesotho launched the first-ever national Child Helpline last month.
Lesotho: New guidelines set for care of orphans and vulnerable children
MASERU, Lesotho, 17 March 2006 – The increasing rate at which children are being orphaned and abandoned in Lesotho has called for concerted action to regulate institutions that purport to be taking care of children.
Lesotho: Road show provides entertainment and HIV/AIDS education
QACHAS NECK, Lesotho, 18 January 2005 – It is rush hour on the Senqu River. A line of children snake down the mountainside and bundle into the metal rowing boat that will take them across the river. The boat slides with the rushing current and the young children pile out on the other side. They might have come here for fun – but they’ll end up leaving with knowledge that could help save their lives.
