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» Graft pauses Mali health aid
» Zambia AIDS treatment reaches 90% of sick
» Africa receives least health aid
» Pedal power may clean up Tanzania slum
» Longer life in SA may reflect AIDS victory
» E-payment for a cup of water in Kenya
» Africa sees successes fighting hunger
» Floods hit 1.5 million in West, Central Africa
» Cousin of smallpox virus spreading in DR Congo
» Namibia lifts travel ban for HIV infected
» Angola successfully fighting poverty
» Swazi police disrupts activist's funeral
Mali
Corruption | Medicine | Social services

Graft pauses Mali health aid

afrol News, 8 December - Three projects fighting malaria and tuberculosis in Mali have seen their international funding suspended as government found "evidence of misappropriation and unjustified expenditure."

Zambia
HIV-AIDS | Policy

Zambia AIDS treatment reaches 90% of sick

afrol News, 1 December - As HIV/AIDS prevalence is finally being reduced in Africa, also Zambia can celebrate successes in the fight against the pandemic. Almost all Zambians suffering from AIDS now receive treatment.

Africa
Cooperation | Development | Policy | Social sciences

Africa receives least health aid

afrol News, 30 November - New research reveals that the part of development aid directed towards health issues has increased strongly during the last two decades. But Africa receives far less health aid than less challenged developing countries, compared to needs.

Tanzania
Development | Social services

Pedal power may clean up Tanzania slum

afrol News, 19 November - The slums of the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, are an unhealthy and smelly place due to freely flowing sewage. Now, a researcher has found a low-threshold technology without needing electricity that could clean up the slum.

South Africa
Development | HIV-AIDS | Social sciences

Longer life in SA may reflect AIDS victory

afrol News, 18 November - New statistics show that South Africa's declining life expectation turned already in 2005, with mortality rates for both sexes decreasing since that. Better HIV/AIDS treatment may be the cause.

Kenya
Development | Development | Social services

E-payment for a cup of water in Kenya

afrol News, 22 October - In a rural district grossly neglected by Kenyan authorities, private actors have introduced groundbreaking technology to provide basic services. E-payment, microfinance and solar energy secure safe water for villagers.

Africa
Development | Development | Food Security

Africa sees successes fighting hunger

afrol News, 12 October - Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique have seen the greatest successes in fighting back hunger during the last 20 years, a new report reveals. At the same time, the situation in Burundi, Chad, the DRC and Eritrea deteriorated severely.

West Africa | Central Africa
Disasters | Food Security | Outbreaks

Floods hit 1.5 million in West, Central Africa

afrol News, 12 October - Nearly 1.5 million people have been affected by floods and 377 killed in Western and Central Africa, with Chad, northern Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria facing a serious cholera epidemic, relief officials reported today.

Congo Kinshasa
Diseases | Natural sciences | Science

Cousin of smallpox virus spreading in DR Congo

afrol News, 24 September - The deadly smallpox virus was eradicated worldwide in 1979, and the year after, vaccination stopped. But the vaccine had also protected against the dangerous "monkeypox" virus, and now a new generation in DR Congo is increasingly exposed to the disease.

Namibia
HIV-AIDS | Law | Policy

Namibia lifts travel ban for HIV infected

afrol News, 8 July - The Namibian parliament has passed new legislation lifting restrictions for people living with HIV/AIDS and other contagious diseases, including an entry ban.

Angola
Development | Poverty

Angola successfully fighting poverty

afrol News, 15 June - Despite poor a transparency and democracy record, Angola has managed to translate its oil-driven economic boom into human development and poverty reduction a new nation-wide survey shows.

Swaziland
Democracy - Dictatorship | Policy

Swazi police disrupts activist's funeral

afrol News, 17 May - The Sipho Jele saga went on on Sunday, as relatives and friends tried to bury the trade unionist that had died in police detention. Around 500 armed police officers disrupted the funeral and arrested more Swazi civil society leaders.

Mozambique
HIV-AIDS | Infrastructure

Mozambique fears AIDS spread along new roads

afrol News, 14 May - Mozambique is rapidly improving its road and rail connections with neighbouring countries, most of which have higher HIV prevalence. Government now wishes to halt the expected boost in HIV infections along these inroads.

Africa | World
Affairs | Children | Children | Cooperation | Diseases | Economy | Finance | Medicine | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Social services

World Bank funding targets Africa’s malaria fight

afrol News, 23 April - African states still not covered with malaria treated nets will be given priority in the new funding committed and aimed at meeting the 2010 target of eradicating the killer disease.

Africa
Natural sciences | Science

Climate models to predict African disease outbreak

afrol News, 16 April - African and European researchers are to join forces in a new project that is to use climate modelling to predict outbreaks of diseases in Senegal, Ghana and Malawi.

Africa | World
Health | Policy | Policy

"Invest in a woman, save a child, save the world"

afrol News, 16 April - A global movement for maternal and child health could be an answer to fast-tracking the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Sierra Leone
Actionism | Development | Policy | Social services

Sierra Leone's health strike ends

afrol News, 29 March - The almost two weeks strike by Sierra Leone's health workers ended yesterday after government made an offer to double salaries of the striking workforce.

Southern Africa
HIV-AIDS | Religion

Archbishop slams "horror" church response to AIDS

afrol News, 24 March - Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa says he regrets the way many church societies have met and are meeting AIDS infected, disapproving of their sex life and even calling it "a judgement from God." These were "horror stories," he said.

Ghana
HIV-AIDS | Religion | Science | Social sciences

Witchcraft meets modern medicine in Ghana

afrol News, 24 March - More than one third of Ghana's population believe that AIDS is caused by witchcraft. But large-scale intervention programmes for improving health standards aree starting to convince people to trust medical explanations of the disease, researchers find.

Kenya | World
Social Services | Social services

World longest toilet queue upcoming in Kenya

afrol News, 19 March - The Kibera Slum in Nairobi is becoming the site of "the world's longest toilet queue" this weekend, organisers of a World Water Day event in Kenya promise.

World
HIV-AIDS | Natural sciences | Science

Bananas against AIDS?

afrol News, 15 March - Scientists have found a special protein in the banana that could help women prevent being infected by HIV during sexual intercourse. They hope this may open the door to new and cheaper treatments to prevent the spread of AIDS.

Africa
Food Security | Medicine | Natural sciences | Science | Science

Drumstick tree can provide Africa with clean water

afrol News, 5 March - Moringa oleifera, also known as the drumstick tree, could be the almost cost free solution to provide millions of Africans with clean water. A simple technique can make its seeds into an effective water purification remedy.

South Africa
Medicine

SA baby born with external heart dies

afrol News, 5 March - A young South African baby who was born with her heart outside has died, despite groundbreaking medical efforts at a Johannesburg hospital to save her.

Africa | World
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Entertainment | Events | HIV-AIDS | People | Policy | Policy | Social services | Social Services

UNAIDS partner with rock icon to fight AIDS

afrol News, 3 March - The lead United Nations agency tackling the AIDS epidemic, along with rock and roll icon Annie Lennox, have launched an action plan to empower women and girls to protect themselves against HIV.

Africa | World
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Diseases | Finance | People | Policy | Policy | Social services | Social Services

Africa more vulnerable to non-communicable diseases’ deaths

afrol News, 25 February - With often preventable, non-communicable diseases such as heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory illness accounting for 60 percent of all global deaths, experts from around the world gathered at a United Nations forum to draw up plans to reverse the trend.


» 24.02.2010 - Nigeria urged to lead AIDS fight
» 18.02.2010 - UNAIDS chief urges greater AIDS response in Swaziland
» 15.02.2010 - UN partners media to fight sexual violence in S/Leone
» 12.02.2010 - "Overweight girls, undernourished boys" in Cameroon
» 10.02.2010 - New TV series target Kenyan youth

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