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Swaziland’s dental dilemma
3 April 2013
(IRIN
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Having a toothache in Swaziland can be a lot more painful than it is in many other places. Most Swazis have never visited a dentist, because in a country where 70 percent of the population lives in absolute poverty, oral hygiene is considered a luxury.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97774/Swaziland-s-dental-dilemma
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Briefing: M23, one year on
3 April 2013
(IRIN
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The M23 rebellion, the latest of a string of armed insurgencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu Province, has been active for one year now, during which hundreds of thousands have fled their homes and many have lost their lives.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97779/Briefing-M23-one-year-on
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Boost for healthcare in DRC
31 March 2013
(IRIN
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The British government has announced a major new programme aimed at providing essential healthcare to six million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The five-year, US$270.7 million project will focus on rebuilding health facilities, training health workers, and supplying drugs and equipment.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97761/Boost-for-healthcare-in-DRC
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Holding politicians to account for aid pledges
29 March 2013
(IRIN
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The aid community has an increasing number of systems to track how money is spent, but it has few systems to track pledges. UK Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan says politicians must be held to account for aid pledges.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97752/Holding-politicians-to-account-for-aid-pledges
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Will Somalia get enough rain this year?
28 March 2013
(IRIN
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Parts of southern Somalia are yet to recover from the battering they took in 2010-2011, when severe drought followed excessive rain, and now the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) says insufficient rain may fall in the coming months. "We are concerned - our forecast shows that there is 80 percent probability that rains could trend from normal to below normal across Somalia," said Gideon Galu, a regional FEWS NET scientist based in Africa.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97744/Will-Somalia-get-enough-rain-this-year
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Rethinking TB vaccines
28 March 2013
(IRIN
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As researchers consider who might benefit most from the next wave of tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, some argue that we're not doing enough with the vaccine we already have.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97746/Rethinking-TB-vaccines
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Activists fear less focus on HIV after 2015
28 March 2013
(IRIN
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As a UN high-level panel completes worldwide consultations to pick development goals for 2015 and beyond, PlusNews consulted experts to see how HIV/AIDS might fit into this new agenda.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97750/Activists-fear-less-focus-on-HIV-after-2015
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Fishing for jobs in Lesotho
27 March 2013
(IRIN
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Tsotleho Befole, 24, travelled from the Lesotho highlands village of Hasephapo-Taunyane to neighbouring South Africa twice in the past year, searching for work in the mines. Both times it proved a wasted journey.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97614/Fishing-for-jobs-in-Lesotho
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TB testing in South Africa rolling out slowly
26 March 2013
(IRIN
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South Africa will expand its rollout of GeneXpert tuberculosis (TB) testing machines, which can diagnose TB and drug-resistant TB within 90 minutes, but concerns remain about the capacity to back up this commitment with supplies and treatment.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97730/TB-testing-in-South-Africa-rolling-out-slowly
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Political leadership needed to deal with drug-resistant TB
26 March 2013
(IRIN
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Twenty years ago, tuberculosis (TB) was one of the least glamorous branches of medicine. The cause had long been known, as had the cure, so all that was left was the unromantic slog of reducing the poverty, hunger and overcrowding that fostered the disease, and working out better ways to get patients to comply with the lengthy course of treatment needed to cure it.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97735/Political-leadership-needed-to-deal-with-drug-resistant-TB
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