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ANGOLA-DRC: Retaliatory expulsions reach a new peak
13 October 2009
(IRIN
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The tit-for-tat expulsion of thousands of Angolan refugees living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the repatriation of thousands of undocumented Congolese migrants working in Angola, is raising fears of a "humanitarian catastrophe" in the making.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86567/ANGOLA-DRC-Retaliatory-expulsions-reach-a-new-peak
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AFRICA: Fighting the "double whammy" of obesity and hunger
8 October 2009
(IRIN
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Africa faces a double burden of obesity and hunger as millions take up increasingly sedentary lives in cities and the global financial crisis hits rural populations’ food security, nutritionists warn.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86490/AFRICA-Fighting-the-double-whammy-of-obesity-and-hunger
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AFRICA: Why family is best for orphans
30 September 2009
(IRIN
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Africa's orphans will experience a richer, more wholesome childhood if they are raised within a family rather than in a childcare institution, according to speakers at a conference on family-based care for children in Nairobi.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86363/AFRICA-Why-family-is-best-for-orphans
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In Brief : New treatment for sleeping sickness
29 September 2009
(IRIN
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Patients at an advanced stage of Human African Trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, can now access more convenient, safer and cheaper treatment after the introduction of Nifurtimox-Eflornithine Combination Therapy (NECT).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86341/In-Brief-New-treatment-for-sleeping-sickness
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Analysis: Scrapping user fees "just the first step"
24 September 2009
(IRIN
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Donor-backed user fees for health services were supposed to decentralise primary healthcare and provide revenue for essential drugs: instead, advocacy groups charge, they have ended up killing the poor in the developing world.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86281/Analysis-Scrapping-user-fees-just-the-first-step
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: HIV-positive children living longer
18 September 2009
(IRIN
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The number of HIV-infected children in southern Africa who survive into adolescence without treatment is greater than previously thought, and will keep increasing for years to come.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86215/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-HIV-positive-children-living-longer
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AFRICA: Condoms - the hole truth
10 September 2009
(IRIN
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Having a condom split during sex is not much fun, but the idea that millions of condoms may be faulty before they are opened is the stuff nightmares are made of.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86096/AFRICA-Condoms-the-hole-truth
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: What of the female condom?
10 September 2009
(IRIN
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If you haven't seen a female condom lately, you're not alone. More than 15 years after the only female-controlled method to prevent HIV was introduced, it is still largely marginalized and inaccessible.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86081/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-What-of-the-female-condom
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AFRICA: Trying to work from the same weather page
8 September 2009
(IRIN
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Climate scientists describe Africa as an information "black hole". The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) notes that there are only 744 weather stations, but only a quarter of them are of international standard; at least 3,000, evenly spaced across the continent, are needed, with another 1,000 in densely populated areas; ideally, Africa should have at least 10,000 stations.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86055/AFRICA-Trying-to-work-from-the-same-weather-page
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HEALTH: Climate change - burden or opportunity?
8 September 2009
(IRIN
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Despite an international resolution to avoid environmental health hazards, the medical community - already overburdened with health challenges - has remained largely outside the climate change dialogue, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) climate change specialist.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86062/HEALTH-Climate-change-burden-or-opportunity
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