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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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Cape Verde
Development | Outbreaks

First Dengue fever outbreak in Cape Verde

afrol News, 2 November - An outbreak of a Dengue fever epidemic has been confirmed by health authorities in Cape Verde and the World Health Organisation (WHO). This is the first reported epidemic of Dengue fever in the tourist destination Cape Verde.

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Africa | World
Affairs | Children | Children | Cooperation | Development | Diseases | Economy | Events | Finance | Policy | Policy | Social services | Social Services

Alliance plans to immunise 130 million children against Pneumonia

afrol News, 30 October - To mark the first international World Pneumonia Day on 2 November, the GAVI Alliance plans to immunise 130 million children in poor countries against pneumonia, the world’s leading child killer.

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Africa
HIV-AIDS | People | Policy | Social Services

HIV risk remains high in Sub-Saharan Africa, new report

afrol News, 26 October - A new comparative report has found persistent high levels of sexual risk-taking, low levels of condom use, and inadequate coverage of voluntary counseling and testing in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Africa | World
Affairs | Diseases | Law | Livestock | Outbreaks | People | Policy | Policy | Trade

African swine fever spreading in Russia

afrol News, 22 October - The devastating pig disease known as African swine fever (ASF) has now been found in northwest Russia, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has reported today.

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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.

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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.

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Africa | World
Affairs | Children | Children | Cooperation | Diseases | Outbreaks | Policy | Policy | Policy | Social services | Social Services

UN calls for renewed efforts to save millions of children from diarrhoea

afrol News, 14 October - The United Nations agencies today called for a renewed push to save the lives of millions of children in poor countries who die each year from diarrhoea.

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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.

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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.

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Africa | Kenya
Entertainment | Events | HIV-AIDS | Music | People | Policy | Policy

African music awards to boost war against AIDS

afrol News, 9 October - Music stars at this weekend’s MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) in Nairobi, Kenya, can have a significant impact in educating young people about HIV and changing their behaviour, a top UNAIDS official said today.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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West Africa
Cooperation | Development | Economy | Events | Finance | People | Policy | Poverty | Social services | Social Services | Water

Diageo commits more funding to West Africa's access to clean water

afrol News, 24 September - Diageo, the worlds leading premium drinks company, has been recognised today by the Clinton Global Initiative for its work in providing many of the poorest people across Africa with access to clean water.

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Ethiopia | West Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Disasters | Diseases | Economy | Famine | Finance | Food Security | Outbreaks | People | Poverty | Social Services | Social services

UN steps up work in W/Africa and flashes urgent appeal for Ethiopia

afrol News, 23 September - A lack of resources for emergency relief efforts in Ethiopia threatens to cut off food aid delivery to the most vulnerable people in the coming days, the United Nations humanitarian arm has warned today.

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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.

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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.

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Côte d'Ivoire
Affairs | Crime | Disasters | Diseases | Economy | Law | People | Policy | Social Services | Socio-economic

Toxic wastes caused deaths, illnesses in Côte d’Ivoire - UN expert

afrol News, 17 September - Evidence indicates that the dumping of toxic wastes caused over one dozen deaths and dozens of illnesses in Côte d’Ivoire in 2006, an independent United Nations human rights expert said yesterday.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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