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Water & Sanitation
ZIMBABWE: Typhoid kills five people

  Conference Calls For East African Countries To Prioritize Water, Sanitation Programs

  Clean Water Needs To Be Priority For Haiti

 

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GLOBAL: The impact of grey literature on climate projections
JOHANNESBURG, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - Most food crop cultivation in Africa is rain-fed, but climate change is affecting vital rainfall patterns and pushing up temperatures, diminishing yields that could halve in some countries by 2020. This warning ha....

MOZAMBIQUE: Flood situation "under control"
JOHANNESBURG, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - Rivers throughout central and northern Mozambique are swollen above flood alert level and thousands of people have been relocated to higher ground, but national disaster management authorities and aid agencies in ....

ZIMBABWE: Typhoid kills five people
HARARE, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - Typhoid fever has killed five people in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, and 30 others were being treated for the bacterial disease, the city's health director, Stanley Mungofa, told a media briefing on 9 March 2010. The....

UGANDA: One doctor for 16,200 refugees
KYAKA II REFUGEE CAMP, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this sprawling camp in western Uganda, which is served by a single doctor. Among those waiting in one of the camp's t....

ZAMBIA: Stigma and bureaucracy drive maternal deaths
LUSAKA, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - Parity Zulu, 17, constantly recited a Biblical verse asking God for protection from her persecutors while her mother ferried her to hospital following complications from the teenager's illegal abortion. Her mother, ....

New Grassroots Effort to Pressure G8 to Fulfill Earlier Promises
Joe DeCapua 11 March 2010 - Canada plays host in June to both the G8 and G20 summits. This week, civil society groups launched a new campaign to pressure leaders to take strong action on AIDS, poverty, climate change and the global economy. I....

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phantom aid
In 2003, real aid was only $27bn, or
just 0.1% of the donor countries’
combined national income. Aid donors fall far short of meeting the official international aid target of 0.7% of national income. ActionAid’s new ‘real 0.7% rankings’, presented in this report, show that when it comes to
‘real’ aid they are falling even further behind....more than 60% of aid flows are ‘phantom’; that is they do not represent a real resource transfer to the recipient.....
For the United States and France, two of the world’s largest aid donors, almost 90% of their contributions are phantom aid

In Brief

On the Brink: Guinea Worm - A Long Crusade - Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease


Perspective: Why Africa cannot trade itself out of poverty


WHO makes progress in leprosy control, but challenges remain


WHO/AFRO plans to designate 2006 as “Year of Accelerated Prevention of HIV in Africa”.


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