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SOUTHERN AFRICA: HIV testing and treatment to prevent TB
19 May 2010
(IRIN
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Diagnosing HIV early and starting antiretroviral (ARV) treatment could be the most important weapons in the battle against HIV-associated tuberculosis, but this would need a huge injection of resources in southern Africa, where the dual epidemics of TB and HIV claim the most lives.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89188/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-HIV-testing-and-treatment-to-prevent-TB
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AFRICA: Plugging the technology gap with help from India
14 May 2010
(IRIN
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Investment in information technology can help Africa to improve governance, overcome poverty and deal with critical infrastructure gaps, taking India as an example, the co-chair of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2010 (WEF) said.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89137/AFRICA-Plugging-the-technology-gap-with-help-from-India
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Same problems, less funding
4 May 2010
(IRIN
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Without adequate funding, barriers to HIV treatment are likely to remain unchanged in spite of growing demand, a new report has warned.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89021/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Same-problems-less-funding
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Competing for Limpopo water
19 April 2010
(IRIN
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Climate change will bring higher temperatures to Southern Africa while changing rainfall patterns will affect the amount of water available for food production.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88859/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Competing-for-Limpopo-water
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AFRICA: Donors spend more for health, governments less
8 April 2010
(IRIN
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In Africa government spending on health care, as a percentage of national expenses, rose just 0.3 percent from 2001 to 2007, while donor funding of the sector during the same period increased from 15.3 to 20.1 percent, according to a review of 52 African countries’ health spending by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88735/AFRICA-Donors-spend-more-for-health-governments-less
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MOZAMBIQUE: Drought and floods bring food shortages
29 March 2010
(IRIN
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Extensive flooding along the rivers of central and southern Mozambique during March, in tandem with persistent drought in other parts of the same areas, have left 465,000 people in need of food assistance, but aid agencies warn that they do not have the resources to help.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88612/MOZAMBIQUE-Drought-and-floods-bring-food-shortages
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AFRICA: Rice is nice but not for long
25 March 2010
(IRIN
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The organizers of a week-long African Rice Congress in Bamako, capital of Mali, say African countries can decrease hunger and save millions of dollars if they wean themselves off rice imports and increase local production, but experts favour a "drastic" move away from rice to native grains.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88564/AFRICA-Rice-is-nice-but-not-for-long
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MOZAMBIQUE: After the floods
24 March 2010
(IRIN
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The worst of the floods are behind them, but now the communities along Mozambique's major rivers face other serious challenges: thousands are displaced and access to food and clean water is limited.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88549/MOZAMBIQUE-After-the-floods
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MOZAMBIQUE: Floods could aggravate seasonal cholera
15 March 2010
(IRIN
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Cholera has claimed the lives of over 40 people in Mozambique and ongoing flooding throughout the central and northern parts of the country could "aggravate" the problem, aid agencies say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88434/MOZAMBIQUE-Floods-could-aggravate-seasonal-cholera
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MOZAMBIQUE: Flood situation "under control"
11 March 2010
(IRIN
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Rivers throughout central and northern Mozambique are swollen above flood alert level and thousands of people have been relocated to higher ground, but national disaster management authorities and aid agencies in Mozambique say "the situation is under control".
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88399/MOZAMBIQUE-Flood-situation-under-control
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