Uganda
HIV-AIDS | Law | Policy | Policy | Policy
"Uganda AIDS prevention threatened"
afrol News, 6 November - Over 50 Ugandan and international organisations are warning government that the "repressive" HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, soon to be voted on in the Kampala parliament, could destroy Uganda's earlier successes in fighting back the pandemic.
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South Africa
Development | Science | Social sciences
South African mortality crisis overcome
afrol News, 5 November - Mortality rates, which have been increasing in South Africa since the 1990s, are on their way back down, reflecting a downturn of the AIDS epidemic and signalling longer lifespans for South Africans, statistics published today reveal.
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Cape Verde
Outbreaks
Dengue epidemic paralyses Cape Verde
afrol News, 5 November - A first-ever outbreak of dengue fever in Cape Verde, already causing four deaths and infecting 9,000 persons, has caused panic on the archipelago. Tomorrow, everybody is urged to kill mosquitoes instead of going to work, and both the police and army are sent out to root out the disease.
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Africa | World
Affairs | Children | Children | Cooperation | Development | Diseases | Economy | Finance | Medicine | Policy | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Social services | Socio-economic
$1 billion required annualy to reach children with life-saving vaccines
afrol News, 21 October - Reversing a downward trend, immunisation rates are now at their highest ever and vaccine development worldwide is booming, according to a new assessment released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the World Bank. Read more
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Africa
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Economy | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Social services
Africa to accelerate efforts to achieve development goals
afrol News, 20 October - Experts attending the inaugural meeting of the ECA Committee on Human & Social Development ended their meeting today with a commitment to scale up efforts to accelerate progress toward the achievement of the millennium development goals (MDGs) and the Plan of Action of International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Africa. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Economy | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social services | Social Services
UN marks 15th anniversary of the Cairo development conference
afrol News, 13 October - The UN General Assembly yesterday marked the fifteenth anniversary of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which adopted a 20-year plan to provide access to reproductive health, reduce maternal deaths, promote women's rights and help reduce poverty. During the all-day event, speakers from around the world voiced their support for the ICPD consensus and shared experiences on how it has helped their countries, communities and families. Read more
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Ethiopia
Disasters | Diseases | Food Security | Outbreaks | People | Policy | Poverty | Social services | Social Services
Ethiopia still vulnerable to serious hunger
afrol News, 13 October - Food security continues to plague many areas of Ethiopia because of drought, according to the latest joint report by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. Read more
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Uganda
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Development | Diseases | Management | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Social Services | Social services | Water
Uganda set new sights to reach safe water targets
afrol News, 8 October - A new set of maps illustrating levels of clean drinking water, sanitation facilities, and poverty in Uganda will help guide national development planning. Read more
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Ethiopia
Conservation | Development | Development | Famine | Finance | Livestock | Management | People | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Social services
USAID awards $387,000 for indigenous health in Ethiopia
afrol News, 7 October - A $387,000 grant by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will help Northwest-based nonprofit Global Team for Local Initiatives (GTLI) implement clean water and sanitation programmes in Ethiopia. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Development | Economy | Finance | Outbreaks | People | Policy | Poverty | Social services | Social Services
Zim health workers afforded mobility with UN bikes
afrol News, 1 October - The United Nations has provided hundreds of bicycles and motorcycles for Zimbabwean health workers to respond to potential cholera and flu outbreaks, the latest in a series of steps by the world body to help the southern African country confront acute humanitarian needs. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Health | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Sexuality | Social services | Social Services | Socio-economic | Violence | War & Peace
Stakeholders discuss post-crisis reproductive health needs of populations
afrol News, 28 September - Health officials, many from countries either in or recovering from long-running crises, are meeting at a United Nations forum in Granada, Spain, to find ways to meet the neglected sexual and reproductive health needs of people during and immediately after crisis situations. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Health | HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Social Services | Social services | War & Peace
Report calls for HIV-sensitive laws and policing to combat AIDS
afrol News, 23 September - Violence against women, the transition from war to peace and the criminalisation of drug use and homosexuality are among the political, economic and social factors driving the HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to a United Nations-backed report released yesterday. Read more
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Africa
Children | Children | Cooperation | Development | Finance | HIV-AIDS | Social Services | Social services
New partnership to keep children free from HIV in Africa
afrol News, 22 September - Efforts to curb HIV transmission from mothers to their children in Africa have received a boost, from a new partnership between the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and a UN-backed initiative seeking to help lift villages on the continent lift themselves out of poverty. Read more
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Africa | World
Cooperation | Development | Diseases | Medicine | People | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Social services | Trade
Project to fight Malaria builds thriving African Mosquito net industry
afrol News, 17 September - In a decade-long initiative to protect millions of families from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a US government-funded project helped sell 50 million bed nets in seven countries, crafted a voucher system to allow the poor to receive them for free or partial cost, and created enough incentives for private companies that they invested $88 million to expand their businesses, according to results released today by AED at a conference held at the National Press Club. Read more
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West Africa
Affairs | Cooperation | Disasters | Diseases | Food Security | Outbreaks | People | Poverty | Social services | Social Services
WHO warns of possible after floods health disaster in W/Africa
afrol News, 16 September - Deadly floods that have swept across West Africa could lead to outbreaks of diarrhoea, malaria and other communicable diseases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) cautioned yesterday, calling for funding to respond to the emergency. Read more
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Egypt
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Diseases | Medicine | People | Policy | Policy | Science | Social Services
Second US-Egypt clinical study blocked
afrol News, 15 September - A study exploring the healing of diabetic skin ulcers using topical oxygen/ozone gas mixtures could not proceed to completion and was now abandoned, according to Ozonics International, LLC, a veteran-owned biotechnology company engaged in the research and development of ozone-based medical therapies. Read more
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» 11.09.2009 - Global child mortality figures dropping
» 10.09.2009 - Circumcision cost-effective means to prevent HIV - UN report
» 08.09.2009 - More people affected by West African floods
» 08.09.2009 - Diarrhoea threatens to wreaks havoc in Ethiopia
» 04.09.2009 - Forum promises new action on women’s health and rights
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