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Highway Africa information summit upbeat about future |
11 - Sep - 2003 |
| JOHANNESBURG, 11 September (IRIN) - Africa's information technology promoters from private industry, the media and academia are finding evidence that the continent is overcoming price and infrastructure problems to exploit the Internet as a tool for poverty alleviation, democratisation and development.... more |
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Source: IRIN 11 Sept 2003
Author: IRIN |
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Hospitals are getting worse - WHO |
07 - Sep - 2003 |
| JOHANNESBURG, 3 September (IRIN) - Shortages of essential medicines and medical equipment, a staffing crisis and inadequate infrastructure are undermining the quality of hospital care across sub-Saharan Africa... more |
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Source: IRIN 03 Sept 2003
Author: IRIN |
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Millions of women still trek farther for water |
03 - Sep - 2003 |
| MBABANE, - The link between environmental degradation and worsening poverty levels in African nations has left the realm of anecdotal evidence and now has the solidity of hard fact, thanks to data collected in a new Human Development Report published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)... more |
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Source: Inter Press Service August 30, 2003
Author: James Hall |
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AFRICA: US mayors to follow up on Bush visit |
26 - Aug - 2003 |
| KAMPALA, 25 August (IRIN) - As a follow-up to President Bush’s Africa tour last June, undertaken largely to promote the launch of his global fund on HIV/AIDS, a delegation of nine US mayors is to visit four African countries later this month... more |
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Source: IRIN 25 August 2003
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"sugar daddy" phenomenon major health consequences |
25 - Jul - 2003 |
| JOHANNESBURG, 24 July (IRIN) - Three teenage girls from a local high school in Johannesburg - South Africa's economic hub - were gathered in a local NGO office on Wednesday after watching an educational play on HIV/AIDS. The topic of discussion had generated a heated debate among the girls, and they were eager to share their thoughts on "sugar daddies"... more |
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Source: IRIN 24 July 2003
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