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In Brief: Southern Africa floods cause highest death toll in recent years
21 July 2011
(IRIN
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The death toll in southern Africa during the 2010-2011 rainy season (December-May) was “markedly higher” than in recent years, with 477 people killed, compared to seven during the same period in 2009-2010, and 212 in 2008-2009, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93294/In-Brief-Southern-Africa-floods-cause-highest-death-toll-in-recent-years
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SOUTH AFRICA: Deportation threat for undocumented Zimbabweans
6 July 2011
(IRIN
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With just weeks to go before a 27-month moratorium on deporting Zimbabweans living illegally in South Africa expires, the authorities are scrambling to complete a documentation process that will still leave hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans lacking the necessary permits to avoid arrest.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93164/SOUTH-AFRICA-Deportation-threat-for-undocumented-Zimbabweans
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SOUTH AFRICA: Government gets lowest rating on xenophobia
4 July 2011
(IRIN
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In a week that saw two Somali traders shot dead in Cape Town and two more in Port Elizabeth, the South African government's handling of xenophobia received the lowest possible rating in a report by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Monitoring Project.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93130/SOUTH-AFRICA-Government-gets-lowest-rating-on-xenophobia
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SOUTH AFRICA: Still waiting for an anti-human trafficking law
30 June 2011
(IRIN
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South Africa has been identified as a major human-trafficking destination for victims from within the country, the region and beyond, yet there is no legislation that specifically criminalises human trafficking and protects victims.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93104/SOUTH-AFRICA-Still-waiting-for-an-anti-human-trafficking-law
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SOUTH AFRICA: Reproductive services could open door to HIV prevention
27 June 2011
(IRIN
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In theory, it should go something like this: pregnant woman tests HIV-positive as part of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) services at her antenatal clinic, and tells dad-to-be; dad tests for HIV and they support each other, start treatment if need be, and prevent HIV transmission to baby or dad.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93084/SOUTH-AFRICA-Reproductive-services-could-open-door-to-HIV-prevention
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SOUTH AFRICA: Midwife shortage impacts maternal health
27 June 2011
(IRIN
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At Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital (PMMH) in Umlazi, the largest township outside the South African port city of Durban, using midwives to provide maternity services has positively impacted maternal care in the area, but a national shortage of these specialist health personnel has made it difficult to replicate the model elsewhere.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93071/SOUTH-AFRICA-Midwife-shortage-impacts-maternal-health
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SOUTH AFRICA: AIDS conspiracy believers less likely to condomise
22 June 2011
(IRIN
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Thirty years after the discovery of AIDS, conspiracy theories that posit the virus as man-made continue to enjoy support among a segment of South African youth - and these beliefs may be putting them at greater risk of HIV infection.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93042/SOUTH-AFRICA-AIDS-conspiracy-believers-less-likely-to-condomise
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GLOBAL: All wheat varieties will have to be replaced
22 June 2011
(IRIN
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Winds carried ash clouds from a volcano in Chile thousands of kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean to affect flights in South Africa on 19 June, so it is possible that the spores of the variants of a deadly mutant fungus, Ug99, a wheat stem rust that surfaced in South Africa in 2009, could travel to Australia - one of the world's four main wheat exporters - in the same way.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93044/GLOBAL-All-wheat-varieties-will-have-to-be-replaced
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SOUTH AFRICA: Blind beggars go south
13 June 2011
(IRIN
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They are a common sight at Johannesburg's busy intersections - a blind man or woman holding the arm of a seeing companion who thrusts a cup in the direction of passing motorists in the hope of getting a few coins.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/92969/SOUTH-AFRICA-Blind-beggars-go-south
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SOUTH AFRICA: Promise and peril in ARV-based prevention
10 June 2011
(IRIN
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The road to prevention methods based on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs is still fraught with challenges, but recent groundbreaking trial results from this promising new field offer greater hope than previous efforts.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/92958/SOUTH-AFRICA-Promise-and-peril-in-ARV-based-prevention
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