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SOUTHERN AFRICA: No single formula for HIV risk
16 August 2010
(IRIN
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In southern Africa, prevention campaigns highlighting the HIV risks of having more than one partner at the same time have largely targeted heterosexuals and ignored the fact that men who have sex with men also have multiple partners.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90186/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-No-single-formula-for-HIV-risk
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MADAGASCAR: Drought, cyclones, political crisis and now locusts
13 August 2010
(IRIN
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Swarms of locusts have been forming in the South Madagascar for months threatening the livelihoods of hundreds and thousands of Malagasy and if a major control campaign is not set up quick infestations could reach "plague proportions," the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90168/MADAGASCAR-Drought-cyclones-political-crisis-and-now-locusts
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MADAGASCAR: Going the way of the dodo?
28 July 2010
(IRIN
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Vast portions of Madagascar's unique biodiversity could be lost - possibly forever, and at incalculable cost to ordinary Malagasy and the world - by the continued suspension of environmental funding in response to an ongoing political crisis, says a new report by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the main environmental donor.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89997/MADAGASCAR-Going-the-way-of-the-dodo
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HEALTH: It's how you spend the money that saves lives
28 July 2010
(IRIN
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Members of the African Union (AU) reaffirmed at the end of their meeting on 27 July in Kampala, Uganda, that they would strive to spend 15 percent of their national budgets on health, but at the end of the day it is about how "effectively and efficiently" you spend the money, not about how much.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90000/HEALTH-It-s-how-you-spend-the-money-that-saves-lives
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FOOD: Political will can solve malnutrition
26 July 2010
(IRIN
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"Children don't vote," said Dr Robert Mwadime, of Uganda Action for Nutrition, at a session on the subject before the three-day African Union (AU) meeting opened in Kampala, Uganda. This means that political leaders in Africa often pay scant attention to the millions of children who die every year of malnutrition-related causes. Most of the audience nodded in agreement; many clapped.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89970/FOOD-Political-will-can-solve-malnutrition
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HEALTH: Most paediatric fevers not caused by malaria
6 July 2010
(IRIN
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More than half the paediatric fevers treated in public health clinics in Africa are caused by diseases other than malaria, according to a study by Oxford University and other research groups, whose authors caution against the "continued indiscriminate use of anti-malarials for all fevers across Africa."
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89756/HEALTH-Most-paediatric-fevers-not-caused-by-malaria
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In Brief: Fish nets join mosquito nets against malaria
2 July 2010
(IRIN
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New drugs to fight malaria may well lie at the bottom of the ocean, according to researchers studying over 2,500 samples from marine organisms collected at depths of over 900 metres. They have already found 300 that contain substances that can kill the parasite.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89701/In-Brief-Fish-nets-join-mosquito-nets-against-malaria
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FOOD: Help out small farmers, report urges
2 July 2010
(IRIN
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Small-holder farmers, who make up almost all of Africa’s agriculture sector, need more support to reduce over-dependence on increasingly costly food imports, states a new report.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89716/FOOD-Help-out-small-farmers-report-urges
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In Brief: Sleeping sickness hits new low
29 June 2010
(IRIN
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For the first time in half a century, the number of new diagnosed cases of human African trypanosomiasis – also known as sleeping sickness - has dropped below 10,000 thanks to partnerships with drug companies and improved screening, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89662/In-Brief-Sleeping-sickness-hits-new-low
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Measles back with a vengeance
28 June 2010
(IRIN
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"Out of sight, out of mind" explains why Southern Africa has been grappling with one of the biggest outbreaks of measles, a highly contagious viral disease, since 2009.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89659/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Measles-back-with-a-vengeance
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