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HEALTH: Diabetes cases to double by 2030
28 June 2010
(IRIN
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Without a major breakthrough in preventing and treating diabetes, the number of cases in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double, reaching 24 million by 2030, according to the Brussels-based International Diabetes Federation (IDF).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89660/HEALTH-Diabetes-cases-to-double-by-2030
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SWAZILAND: Women's rights take one step forward, two steps back
16 June 2010
(IRIN
),
Much to the frustration of gender activists, Swaziland's Supreme Court has reversed a February 2010 High Court ruling that allowed a married woman to register property in their own name.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89510/SWAZILAND-Women-s-rights-take-one-step-forward-two-steps-back
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AFRICA: Mother knows best
15 June 2010
(IRIN
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One after the other, the women entered the doctor’s office full of hope and expectation and left with a sense of doom: their pregnancies were confirmed but so was their HIV status – positive. To them it sounded like a death sentence, for themselves and their unborn babies.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89487/AFRICA-Mother-knows-best
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SWAZILAND: Faceless bombers sow insecurity
14 June 2010
(IRIN
),
No individual or group in Swaziland has admitted responsibility for a spate of recent bombings against government and opposition party targets, but their actions are creating a sense of instability in the aid-dependent southern African state.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89483/SWAZILAND-Faceless-bombers-sow-insecurity
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AFRICA: Go-ahead for IDP convention
11 June 2010
(IRIN
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African Union members have adopted plans to implement the Kampala convention on the protection of internally displaced people, including increasing their contributions to refugee and IDP funding and accelerating the convention’s ratification, signature and domestication, the AU said.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89445/AFRICA-Go-ahead-for-IDP-convention
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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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SWAZILAND: Mobile clinics in cash crunch
11 May 2010
(IRIN
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Mobile clinics for HIV patients have been benefiting entire communities in rural Swaziland, but tight budgets have scuppered plans to expand the project, or even sustain a fleet of just two vehicles.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/89097/SWAZILAND-Mobile-clinics-in-cash-crunch
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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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SWAZILAND: Not much benefit in preferential trade agreement
28 April 2010
(IRIN
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A decade after the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), a preferential US trade agreement, became law on 18 May 2000, there are questions over the benefits, if any, derived from the initiative.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/88955/SWAZILAND-Not-much-benefit-in-preferential-trade-agreement
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