Women must play a central role in development, says UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot. "When they do so, the benefits are apparent immediately: families are healthier and better fed; savings and incomes rise; a supportive environment is created. Take away women's ability to fulfil these roles and entire societies fall apart."

Ethical trade can be used to describe any trading relationship where social and environmental criteria are used, in addition to the purely economic, to measure performance. What impact has fair trade practice had on rural livelihoods in Uganda? What is needed to sustain such projects?

The Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN) has made an urgent call to the Angolan representative on the UN Security Council and other African member states of the UN to remember the devastating effects of a US state-sponsored war in Angola over many decades and to reject the proposed resolution in the UN Security Council designed to legitimate the war on Iraq.

Improved management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can reduce the rate of new HIV cases by up to 40 per cent. AMREF (African Medical and Research Foundation) provided training in STI treatment for the six hundred licensed private providers (doctors, nurses and clinical officers) in Nyanza province in western Kenya. But what happens when people use untrained providers or self-medicate?