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MALAWI: Health assistants deployed to boost medical services
7 September 2010
(IRIN
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The scope of Malawi's health assistants - first introduced in the 1960s as part of an initiative to eradicate smallpox - is being broadened to compensate for the lack of available medical skills and to assist in managing the treatment of child malnutrition.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90413/MALAWI-Health-assistants-deployed-to-boost-medical-services
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SWAZILAND: Task-shifting could improve HIV treatment and prevention
3 September 2010
(IRIN
),
Swaziland has yet to act on a 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to alleviate health worker shortages through task-shifting and according to the Ministry of Health, the failure to do so is compromising scale-up of the antiretroviral (ARV) programme.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90387/SWAZILAND-Task-shifting-could-improve-HIV-treatment-and-prevention
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: More sterilizations of HIV-positive women uncovered
30 August 2010
(IRIN
),
Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to conceive, she and her boyfriend consulted a doctor.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90337/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-More-sterilizations-of-HIV-positive-women-uncovered
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SWAZILAND: Trade in albino body parts moving south
25 August 2010
(IRIN
),
The recent killing of two albino Swazi children within a few days of each other is raising fears that the practice of murdering people with the genetically inherited condition to sell their body parts for “muti” (medicine) is migrating southwards.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90281/SWAZILAND-Trade-in-albino-body-parts-moving-south
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LESOTHO-SWAZILAND: A customs union to prevent failed states
18 August 2010
(IRIN
),
Increasing strains on a century-old, five-nation southern African customs union is raising questions as to whether the sovereignty of its poorest members - Lesotho and Swaziland - is sustainable, considering their burden of HIV/AIDS and the global economic slowdown, among other factors.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90208/LESOTHO-SWAZILAND-A-customs-union-to-prevent-failed-states
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SWAZILAND: HIV threat "exaggerated", says King's brother
18 August 2010
(IRIN
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Remarks disparaging programmes to reduce HIV infections, made by Swaziland's second top-ranking traditional leader, have sparked disbelief and anger among AIDS activists.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90210/SWAZILAND-HIV-threat-exaggerated-says-King-s-brother
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SWAZILAND: ABC approach to be shelved
16 August 2010
(IRIN
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In a country with the highest HIV infection rate in the world and the lowest life expectancy, experts are still at a loss as to why Swazis have resisted all attempts to change the behaviours that put them at risk from the virus.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90183/SWAZILAND-ABC-approach-to-be-shelved
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: No single formula for HIV risk
16 August 2010
(IRIN
),
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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HEALTH: It's how you spend the money that saves lives
28 July 2010
(IRIN
),
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
),
"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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