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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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