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AFRICA: Finding the food crops of the future
24 February 2010
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Temperatures seem set to soar to perilously high levels because of climate change. In another 40 years, would maize still be the staple food in Kenya, already hit by five failed rainy seasons? If not, what could people grow and eat? And if you could grow maize, how much water and fertilizer would it need?
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88225/AFRICA-Finding-the-food-crops-of-the-future
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AFRICA: Rotavirus data must propel immunization - experts
27 January 2010
(IRIN
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Health experts hope the release of data showing the success of rotavirus vaccine will help compel policymakers to ensure all children will be immunized.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/87899/AFRICA-Rotavirus-data-must-propel-immunization-experts
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AFRICA: Crackdowns on gays make the closet safer
19 January 2010
(IRIN
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More than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalizing homosexual acts, and despite accounting for a significant percentage of new infections in many countries, men who have sex with men tend to be left out of the HIV response.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/87793/AFRICA-Crackdowns-on-gays-make-the-closet-safer
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AFRICA: Vaccination key to stemming rotavirus, say experts
8 December 2009
(IRIN
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African health experts are calling on governments to vaccinate all children against rotavirus, to end an “unacceptable” yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/87363/AFRICA-Vaccination-key-to-stemming-rotavirus-say-experts
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In Brief: Smaller government, bigger tensions in the Comoros
9 November 2009
(IRIN
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Thinning out the top-heavy governance system of Comoros is creating tensions in the Indian Ocean island state, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its October 2009 country report.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86947/In-Brief-Smaller-government-bigger-tensions-in-the-Comoros
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AFRICA: Turning to traditional medicines in fight against malaria
4 November 2009
(IRIN
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Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference www.mimalaria.org/pamc in Nairobi. Many poor communities, especially in rural settings, cannot afford modern malarial drugs and many people die due to inaccessibility of treatment.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86866/AFRICA-Turning-to-traditional-medicines-in-fight-against-malaria
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AFRICA: AU pushes the envelope on "climate migrants"
29 October 2009
(IRIN
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An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86805/AFRICA-AU-pushes-the-envelope-on-climate-migrants
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Analysis: African IDP convention fills a void in humanitarian law
27 October 2009
(IRIN
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The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is a comprehensive document that will, if ratified, fill a void in international humanitarian law, say experts.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86762/Analysis-African-IDP-convention-fills-a-void-in-humanitarian-law
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AFRICA: Digesting a "mouthful" of climate change
27 October 2009
(IRIN
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Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86774/AFRICA-Digesting-a-mouthful-of-climate-change
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AFRICA: Electronic records can streamline health care
27 October 2009
(IRIN
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Replacing manual data with electronic health records would significantly improve the quality of care and enable African HIV treatment programmes to be scaled up more efficiently, say the authors of a new article on the subject.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/86768/AFRICA-Electronic-records-can-streamline-health-care
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