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DEVELOPMENT-ZAMBIA: Counting the Cost of Recent Floods By Newton Sibanda LUSAKA - Samson Mwenda, a farmer from Namwala in Zambia’s Southern Province, recalls with bitterness the massive floods of the 2007/2008 rainy season and the harsh consequences they had for his life. MORE >>
MOZAMBIQUE: Officials Master Floods - But Battle To Contain Diseases That Follow By Steven Lang GRAHAMSTOWN - More people have died of cholera following recent floods in Mozambique than the number of those who perished in the rising floodwaters. Most rivers in central and northern Mozambique burst their banks after heavy rains in December, January and February, and as a result of Cyclone Jokwe -- which hit in early March. MORE >>
Q&A: Circumcision an "Opportunity To Take Great Strides Forward" Against HIV By Interview with Mark Heywood JOHANNESBURG - Results from trials in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda in 2006 showed that male circumcision reduced the transmission of HIV from women to men by up to 60 percent. On the basis of these results, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organisation have recommended that countries encourage men to be circumcised. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Where Have the Piglets Gone? By Kathryn Strachan JOHANNESBURG - Each psychiatric patient leaving Tower Hospital in the Eastern Cape Province under a new project to integrate patients into the community is sent home with two piglets. While at the hospital, patients are trained to raise pigs, the hope being that they will use the piglets for breeding to develop a sustainable source of income once discharged. MORE >>
HEALTH: Malaria Campaigns Ramp Up Focus on Bed Nets By Mirela Xanthaki UNITED NATIONS - With a million people a year still dying from malaria, the United Nations is leading a new campaign to provide universal coverage of essential malaria control measures -- particularly bed nets -- in Africa by the end of 2010. MORE >>
HEALTH-TANZANIA: A Hazardous Route to the Cradle By Sarah McGregor DAR ES SALAAM - Tatu Shabani Tumbo's first born was diagnosed with strength-sapping anaemia, and died a toddler. Doctors had no medical explanation for the sudden death of her second child at age one. She then tried to get pregnant a third time, initially without success. MORE >>
HEALTH-DR CONGO: Water Everywhere, But Is It Safe To Drink? By Michael Deibert KINSHASA - The rain falls in battering sheets, rolling eastward along the Congo River through Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is midday, but the sky turns black and soon the potholed streets of this decrepit yet vibrant metropolis are filled with pond-sized puddles, many of them larger than the cars that traverse them. MORE >>
TRADE-AFRICA: EU Embarks on EPA Charm Offensive By David Cronin BRUSSELS - After attracting a steady flow of criticism for its handling of trade talks with Africa, the European Commission has gone on something of a charm offensive lately. MORE >>
UGANDA: "God Should Be So Kind That I Can Have Contraceptives" By Kwamboka Oyaro NAIROBI - For many of Africa's women, getting access to family planning services is difficult at the best of times. When war intervenes they can find themselves without any services at all, even as they become more vulnerable to sexual violence -- the situation in northern Uganda being a case in point. MORE >>
HEALTH-TANZANIA: Slowly, a More Enlightened Approach to Drug Addiction By Sarah McGregor DAR ES SALAAM - If the first step to overcoming drug addiction is admitting you have a problem, then Tanzania may be on the road to recovery. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-UGANDA: Smaller Families, Manlier Men By Kwamboka Oyaro NAIROBI - For Ugandan men, the equation is often a simple one: an abundance of children equals virility and security. This deeply rooted belief has frightening implications, however. According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, the population of the East African country -- now 31 million -- will exceed 36 million by 2015, and is projected to reach 54 million in 2025. MORE >>
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