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		<title>A Personal Reflection on the XVIII International Aids Conference</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the finale for the XVIII International Aids Conference and an appropriate time to reflect on all that I have learnt, seen and heard over the past week. This is the second International Aids Conference I have attended; I remember feeling very impressed when I attended the previous International Aids Conference that took place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WUAGG, SWAPOL &amp; PWN at the XVIII International Aids Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of images I took today at the XVIII International Aids Conference in Vienna, of AWDF&#8217;s grantee partners. Nana Sekyiamah Programme Officer (Fundraising &#38; Communications) Related postsA Personal Reflection on the XVIII International Aids ConferenceA few images from the XVIII International Aids Conference in Vienna&#8216;Heal the Land&#8217;: A Support Group for Women Living PositivelyPeace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few images from the XVIII International Aids Conference in Vienna</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1270</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related postsA Personal Reflection on the XVIII International Aids ConferenceWUAGG, SWAPOL &#038; PWN at the XVIII International Aids Conference&#8216;Heal the Land&#8217;: A Support Group for Women Living PositivelySaiadatu and The “V-monologues” African Women in Film Forum: In Audio, Pictures &#038; Text]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Heal the Land&#8217;: A Support Group for Women Living Positively</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1273</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young, energetic graduate responds to a call to volunteer her time and skills as an HIV peer educator and it becomes a life saver even though it did not appear so at that time. Then 27 years old and newly married, Ihe Nkeiru had just completed the University and was ready to undertake her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls Power Initiative: Blessing’s Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1262</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a friend suggested to Blessing Dickson, 17 years then that she accompanies her to an educational session at the offices of Girls Power Initiative (GPI) she was very reluctant.  Not only was the meeting place a bus ride away, which she could not afford but also she really did not understand the essence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saiadatu and The “V-monologues”</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1247</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saiadatu Bala Ahmed is a 22-year-old married woman from Adamawa State in Northern Nigeria.  Saiada as she is usually called has had her life transformed after watching the Vagina monologues play (‘V’- monologues) in Lagos. Saiada lives with her husband and 2 year old daughter in Apapa, a suburb of Lagos State.  She is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Women in Film Forum: In Audio, Pictures &amp; Text</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1211</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (Programme Officer, AWDF) and Thelma Owusu Boakye (Programme Assistant, AWDF) held a number of vox pops with some of the participants at the African Women in Film Forum, 16th-17th June 2010, Lagos, Nigeria. Below are a selection of Audio Files from the film forum. Your feedback, comments and thoughts are appreciated: Film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Augustine: An HIV &amp; AIDS Peer Educator</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1206</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The display of youthful exuberance, intelligence, confidence and beauty attracted me to this young lady sitting in the mist of older ladies and who occasionally would chip in useful information about the organisation’s activities at a meeting with some staff members of Heal the Land Initiative, a grantee of AWDF at Akwa Ibom state in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women and the Dynamics of Representation: Of Cooking, Cars, and Gendered Culture by Abena P. A. Busia</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1203</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are here because of Nollywood. For some this is a reason for celebration, to others it is rather cause for anxiety. However, that such debate even rages is a sign that Nollywood has become an institution to reckon with. And being an institution brings with it responsibilities. Nollywood can no longer be indulged as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lagos Diaries: Attending the Launch of &#8216;Aruba&#8217; by Tunde Kelani</title>
		<link>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1188</link>
		<comments>http://www.awdf.org/browse/1188#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in Lagos on Sunday, 13th June ahead of the first African Women in Film Forum (AWIFF), which is being convened by AWDF in conjunction with Lufodo Productions. On previous trips to Lagos I have only spent a few hours before continuing to my final destination so quite pleased that this time I will [...]]]></description>
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