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HIV/AIDS: MSM groups hail pill to prevent HIV
24 November 2010
(IRIN
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Gay rights groups have hailed the results of the first study to show that an antiretroviral (ARV) drug can prevent HIV as an important step in the fight against HIV, but say that in countries that criminalize homosexuality, the breakthrough is unlikely to have a significant impact.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91180/HIV-AIDS-MSM-groups-hail-pill-to-prevent-HIV
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MADAGASCAR: Coup attempt coincides with referendum
18 November 2010
(IRIN
),
A coup attempt, coinciding with a referendum on a new constitution held amid widespread speculation that two exiled former presidents will return within days, is propelling Madagascar into a situation where "anything can happen", an analyst told IRIN.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91128/MADAGASCAR-Coup-attempt-coincides-with-referendum
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: No sex for a month to prevent HIV
9 November 2010
(IRIN
),
An aggressive national campaign to persuade people to abstain from sex or commit to 100 percent condom use for a month could make a significant contribution to HIV prevention efforts, says a leading HIV expert.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91037/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-No-sex-for-a-month-to-prevent-HIV
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Gearing for heavy rains as La Niña strengthens
4 November 2010
(IRIN
),
Dominicano Mulenga, national coordinator of Zambia's Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit, goes through his to-do list as the rainy season sets in: Industrial pumps to suck water out of the roads serviced. Tick. Enough stocks of tents and mosquito nets. Tick. Mobile phones delivered to communities living along the upper catchment areas of the River Zambezi. Check.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90980/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Gearing-for-heavy-rains-as-La-Niña-strengthens
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GLOBAL: Corruption hampers MDGs - Transparency International
27 October 2010
(IRIN
),
Corruption siphons off 20-30 percent of funding for basic services, estimates non-profit Transparency International (TI), and tackling it should be higher on the international development agenda.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90898/GLOBAL-Corruption-hampers-MDGs-Transparency-International
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AFRICA: Going rural and green
15 October 2010
(IRIN
),
As rural Africa experiences an increasingly moody climate which will erode resilience, drive up hunger and threaten economic growth, it is time countries got serious about development, participants at the seventh African Development Forum in Addis Ababa were told.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90786/AFRICA-Going-rural-and-green
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HIV/AIDS: Global Fund looks to private sector to fill funding gap
14 October 2010
(IRIN
),
With its coffers running at least US$1 billion short, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is looking to the private sector to fill the funding gap.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90765/HIV-AIDS-Global-Fund-looks-to-private-sector-to-fill-funding-gap
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HEALTH: New global plan aims to wipe out TB
14 October 2010
(IRIN
),
A new roadmap for curbing the global epidemic of tuberculosis aims to save five million lives between 2011 and 2015 and eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050 but comes with a price tag of US$47 billion, nearly half of which must still be found.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90767/HEALTH-New-global-plan-aims-to-wipe-out-TB
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AFRICA: Thinking big on climate change modelling
13 October 2010
(IRIN
),
If African countries had had the capacity to do climate change projections, their data could have been fed into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) assessments for the continent, said Richard Odingo, former vice-chair of the IPCC at one of the discussions ahead of the Seventh African Development Forum.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90751/AFRICA-Thinking-big-on-climate-change-modelling
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Social transfers reduce poverty
17 September 2010
(IRIN
),
Southern African countries have some of the world's worst income distribution, but can often afford social transfers, which have proved an efficient means of reducing the number of poor, regional experts said at a two-day meeting in Pretoria, South Africa.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90514/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Social-transfers-reduce-poverty
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