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Category: Africa

There are 52 entries in this category.

Apr 02, 2007

One Thing Leads to Another, in AIDS Treatment Too

If there is a core truism to aid work it might be that all things are connected.

Mar 28, 2007

TB Rates Decline, But XDR-TB Lurks in the Wings

The World Health Organization has announced that worldwide tuberculosis cases as a percentage of the population held steady in 2006. Yet more cases of tuberculosis are identified as extensively drug-resistent (XDR-TB).

Mar 07, 2007

The Danger of Denial

An article in the March 12 edition of The New Yorker provides an overview of AIDS denial, and how it has influenced AIDS treatment practices in South Africa.

Mar 06, 2007

Condom Use Not Enough To Curb the Spread of HIV

Botswana’s prevention programs have focused almost exclusively on condom distribution and promotion; no one is talking about either abstinence or promoting faithfulness to one partner.

Feb 20, 2007

How the Poor Live

A recent study conducted by the MIT Poverty Action Lab reveals surprising data about how the poor earn, spend, borrow and invest. The study should be required reading for anyone looking at ways to effectively invest in reducing poverty.

Feb 10, 2007

Niger’s Greening Brings New Possibilities for Cash

The current greening of Niger puts the into question whether environmental degradation really is an intractable problem in impoverished regions.

Feb 06, 2007

Local Aid Workers in Danger

A recent report issued by the Center on International Cooperation at New York University confirms that attacks on aid workers have doubled or more than doubled every year between 1997 and 2005.

Jan 29, 2007

Measles Mortality Declines 60 Percent in Six Years

The World Health Organization announced last week that its Measles Initiative has been successful at decreasing worldwide measles deaths by 60 percent since it began in 1999. The challenge now will be to sustain and expand.

Dec 30, 2006

Education in Africa

Countries such as Mali are registering close to a thousand children in schools that employ only three teachers and have no or few textbooks.

Dec 18, 2006

Bush Ramps Up Anti-Malaria Initiative

The $1.2 billion President’s Malaria Initiative is aimed at eradicating malaria in regions prone to the disease through a multipronged effort of treatment and prevention.

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