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Nevirapine linked to treatment failure

by IRIN | 0 » | Aug20 10

One of the cheapest and most commonly used drugs for treating HIV in Africa - nevirapine - has been ...

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Referendum will increase humanitarian needs

by IRIN | 0 » | Aug19 10

JUBA - Humanitarian needs in Southern Sudan, where some 4.3m people already need food assistance and fewer than one ...

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Empowering women to fight FGM/C

by IRIN | 0 » | Aug19 10

AWASH - In the northeastern Ethiopian region of Afar, more than 91 percent of women undergo one of the ...

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Women caught in crossfire of HIV battle

by IRIN | 0 » | Aug18 10

MKINGA - Regina Joseph was beaten up by a group of young men for "dressing indecently" on her way ...

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Addressing the role of religion in HIV response

by IRIN | 0 » | Jul30 10

At a church compound in Nairobi's Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations. Among them ...

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Mapping health budgets and child deaths

by IRIN | 0 » | Jul30 10

As many African countries battle to bring down staggering rates of maternal and child mortality, maternal and child health ...

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Child deaths stubbornly high

by IRIN | 0 » | Jul30 10

The race to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015 is more than halfway run, but new reports ...

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Government greenlights three-month supply of ARVs

by IRIN | 1 » | Jul16 10

In a bid to ease pressure on South Africa's over-burdened public health sector, the government has given hospitals and ...

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Child witchcraft allegations on the rise

by IRIN | 0 » | Jul16 10

DAKAR - Accusations of child witchcraft are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa - spurred on by urbanization, poverty, ...

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A third of children chronically malnourished

by IRIN | 0 » | Jul16 10

HARARE - Tinashe, a single mother of three living in Mbare township in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, regularly misses ...

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