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“It's shocking because most of those women just represent those who get to facilities, how many more did not reach them?”

JUBA, Sudan-Lying on a sagging mattress and wincing slightly, Anna Lado laughs at the idea that she should have been afraid of giving birth to her first child, now lying in a crib near her in a hospital in ... via The Epoch Times

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“Continued monitoring of the public-health effect of ART at the population level, including of such inequalities, is required as the scale-up of treatment in resource-limited settings continues.”

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 09 May 2008 According to an article published in The Lancet , adult mortality of HIV patients in Malawi has been significantly reduced after the ... via MediLexicon

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“We are cleaning our house. We do not condone corruption or any misconduct.”

Suspected corrupt traffic Police officers being shown to journalists in Kampala yesterday By Herbert Ssempogo Money hidden in underwear TRAFFIC Police officers extort money from motorists and conceal it in ... via New Vision

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“I think people didn't expect to see an effect that quickly”

Providing free AIDS drugs to people in northern Malawi has slashed adult mortality rates, vindicating a recent ramp-up in treatment in poor parts of rural Africa, researchers said on Friday. via Scientific American

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“It's a new concept, the concept of adoption, consequently it's very, very time-consuming”

Some 100 miles from Malawi's capital, the dusty village of Lipunga has no movie theaters or video players, let alone electricity. via Hugh Hewitt

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“The most serious effect is that infrastructure like roads and bridges has been extensively damaged, making movement of people and agricultural produce difficult”

Samson Mwenda, a farmer from Namwala in Zambia's Southern Province, recalls with bitterness the massive floods of the 2007/2008 rainy season and the harsh consequences they had for his life. via AllAfrica.com

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“People were so hungry they would do anything”

Photo / Reuters A green revolution taking place in the fields of Malawi has, in three years, turned a nation that was once reliant on international aid to feed half its population into a food exporter. via The New Zealand Herald

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Governance , Photography , Politics Languages: English Full Category List Excerpt Recently, the United Democratic Front of Malawi's former president Bakili Muluzi had a convention and elected him as their ... via Global Voices Online

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“They can accumulate in the fish tissues, liver, intestines and gallbladder, which means that secondary contamination by eating toxic fish from an infected pond or lake is possible.”

A fisherman at Luzira landing site battles with the algae By Gerald Tenywa THE stinking algae mass which has been covering the bays at Ggaba, Munyonyo, Nakivubo and Luzira, has spread to the entire lake, which ... via New Vision

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“We were told that people there have shunned condom use because they want to produce more children and increase the population of the country”

The commercial sex industry is booming along the border between Uganda and Sudan following a recent increase in jobs and commercial trucking, according to a recently released study about HIV/AIDS in the region, ... via News-Medical.Net

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