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Five food issues to watch out for
Who or what do you blame when the price of maize seems to keep going through the roof? If you did not mention fuel subsidies, then you need to read this list of emerging food issues in Africa.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vaccinator killings set back Nigerian polio eradication drive
Unknown gunmen on mopeds shot dead 10 polio vaccinators last week in separate attacks on two polio clinics in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, capital of a polio-endemic region where concerted global efforts are being made to stamp out the virus by the end of 2013.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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How social entrepreneurs are inspiring change across Africa
Leadership programmes are facilitating social enterprise projects that could be a viable alternative to aid
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa calling: rewarding patient investors
In the 1970s, it was Idi Amin’s expulsion of Asians from Uganda. In 1980s, it was a malnourished child in Ethiopia, struggling just to stand up. In the 1990s, it was piles of mutilated corpses in Rwanda. For many in the west, these remain the defining images of Africa – despots, disasters and despair.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Decentralise malaria diagnosis and treatment in Africa
The most effective way to overcome the key challenge of access is to focus on community health workers – if people can't come to a health facility, take the health facility to people
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Doctors Struggling to Fight ‘Totally Drug-Resistant’ Tuberculosis in South Africa
In a patient's fight against tuberculosis—the bacterial lung disease that kills more people annually than any infectious disease besides HIV— doctors have more than 10 drugs from which to choose. Most of those didn't work for Uvistra Naidoo, a South African doctor who contracted the disease in his clinic. For those who contract the disease now, maybe none of them will.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Obama in SOTU: Eradicate extreme poverty in 20 years
In a Feb. 12 speech focused on improving the lot of the U.S. middle class, Obama also vowed to help stabilize countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Mali, and help to spread democracy from the Middle East to South-East Asia.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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An Optimistic Era for Global Infectious Disease Control
The world has an "historic opportunity" to contain and end three of humanity's deadliest scourges by focusing on their "hot zones," according to Mark Dybul, the newly appointed director of the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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