Africa Economy - Development | Health | Science - Education Massive AIDS projects threaten African health
afrol News, 22 July - Criticism is increasing against the many giant programmes to particularly tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, which are said to deplete other African health programmes that may have a much greater effect on public health.
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South Africa Politics | Health | Human rights | Society Mandela frowns at gap between rich and poor
afrol News, 18 July - The former South African President and anti-apartheid icon on Friday celebrated 90th birthday at his rural home in the Eastern Cape province. Nelson Mandela, whose birthday celebrations took a national colour, used the event to express concern about the growing gap between rich and poor in South Africa.
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Africa Economy - Development | Health | Society Africa alone reels with heterosexual AIDS epidemic
afrol News, 27 June - The head of the AIDS efforts at the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Kevin De Cock, has said the threat of a heterosexual AIDS pandemic is officially over and decades of predictions that the disease would spread through general populations across the globe were wrong except in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more
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