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SOUTH AFRICA: Thousands of lives lost in treatment delays
7 November 2008
(IRIN
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A new study estimates that more than 330,000 HIV-positive South Africans lost their lives between 2000 and 2005 as a direct result of government delays in rolling out a treatment programme.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81358/SOUTH-AFRICA-Thousands-of-lives-lost-in-treatment-delays
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: The elephant in the room
7 November 2008
(IRIN
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South African National Parks (SANParks) controversially auctioned off 47 metric tonnes (mt) of stockpiled ivory on 6 November, earning the government conservation agency US$6.7 million.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81366/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-The-elephant-in-the-room
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GLOBAL: Falling foul of the Fund
4 November 2008
(IRIN
),
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed in 2001 for the purpose of setting up an innovative approach to providing finance to combat the three diseases that kill more than six million people worldwide every year.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81295/GLOBAL-Falling-foul-of-the-Fund
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AFRICA: Investment key to doubling rice production
3 November 2008
(IRIN
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Greater investment to double rice production in Africa is needed to reduce food insecurity as well as improve livelihoods, specialists urged.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81263/AFRICA-Investment-key-to-doubling-rice-production
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SOUTH AFRICA: Country needs free universal education
30 October 2008
(IRIN
),
The South African government should aim for free universal education, backed up by teacher training so as to make a significant impact on the quality of schooling, said the country's largest public service union.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81209/SOUTH-AFRICA-Country-needs-free-universal-education
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GLOBAL: UN chief calls for protection of migrants amid financial crisis
29 October 2008
(IRIN
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on countries battered by the financial crisis to keep their doors open to foreign workers, stressing that migration could be used to help lift them out of economic gloom.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81171/GLOBAL-UN-chief-calls-for-protection-of-migrants-amid-financial-crisis
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GLOBAL: No room for complacency about bird flu - experts
27 October 2008
(IRIN
),
Some success has been achieved in reducing avian influenza outbreaks in poultry and humans, but the world must still be prepared to tackle an influenza pandemic, experts at an international conference in Egypt have said.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81127/GLOBAL-No-room-for-complacency-about-bird-flu-experts
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SOUTH AFRICA: Wealth gap becoming a chasm
24 October 2008
(IRIN
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Despite the dismantling of apartheid in the early 1990s, and significant annual economic growth over the past 10 years, South African cities have the highest levels of inequality in the world, according to the UN Habitat's latest State of the World's Cities report.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81116/SOUTH-AFRICA-Wealth-gap-becoming-a-chasm
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GLOBAL: Climate change may drown cities
24 October 2008
(IRIN
),
People in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, prefer to commute in three-wheeled autorickshaws, taxis and buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG), in their bid to slow down global warming.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81117/GLOBAL-Climate-change-may-drown-cities
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GLOBAL: Forced to flee
23 October 2008
(IRIN
),
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are forced to flee their homes to escape war or natural disasters. Displaced within their own country and having lost loved ones, livelihoods and belongings, they face terrible hardships.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/81072/GLOBAL-Forced-to-flee
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