africa: No quick fix: tackling the AIDS epidemic through combating poverty

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Aug 01, 2002

How is the HIV/AIDS epidemic affecting children and young people? What is being done to address the consequences of the epidemic and what are the possible ways forward? Save the Children UK research suggests that HIV/AIDS is now the greatest threat to child development in many parts of the world and that it is only by combating the root causes of poverty that the HIV/AIDS epidemic can be tackled.

ETHIOPIA: Interview with UNICEF head Ibrahim Jabr

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Jul 25, 2002

Ibrahim Jabr has been the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Ethiopia for the last three years. He tells IRIN of the change in approach by UNICEF and the issues it faces in Ethiopia.

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ETHIOPIA: Hundreds of street kids reportedly dumped in a forest

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Jul 25, 2002

Hundreds of street children and homeless people were last month forced out of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and dumped in a forest outside the city, the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) has said.

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KENYA: Focus on challenges in the education sector

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Jul 25, 2002

The elimination of ignorance has been a standing objective of the Kenyan government since independence from Britain in 1963. Lately, however, the country's education sector has faced severe tests.

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south africa: remove shame of disabled chidlren

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Jul 25, 2002

All South Africans should look at children with intellectual disabilities in a different light, former president Nelson Mandela said last Saturday. "We need a more accepting, supportive and caring society to remove the shame, stigma and fear of those who find themselves with mental disabilities in their families," he said at the newly renamed Peter Mokaba stadium in Polokwane.

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Uganda: Kampala to Receive Resources to continue the fight against poverty

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Jul 25, 2002

The World Bank yesterday approved two credits totaling US$250 million to help Uganda fight the abject poverty that afflicts 35 percent of the country's population overall, and 66 percent of the population of Northern Uganda. Uganda will receive US$150 million for the Second Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC2), which is second in a planned series of three World Bank PRSC operations, to support Uganda's medium-term development and reform program. Meanwhile, the US$100 million Northern Ugan...read more

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South Africa: Aids projects benefit from R5 million fund

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Jul 25, 2002

Projects dealing with moral regeneration and HIV/Aids are among the main beneficiaries of the ministerial discretionary fund of the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. The fund amounts to R5 million for the 2002/3 financial year.

South Africa

South Africa: Ngubane allocates R1m for E. Cape project

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Jul 25, 2002

Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Minister Ben Ngubane has allocated R1 million for the Umzimkhulu Moral Regeneration project from the minister's discretionary fund.

South Africa

South Africa: E Cape to get R3bn projects boost

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Jul 25, 2002

The Eastern Cape province of South Africa is set to benefit from projects worth more than R3billion due before the end of the year.

South Africa

South Africa : R20m to develop a feng shui cat garden

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Jul 25, 2002

A British animal charity is using a R20million bequest to install feng shui gardens for cats, designed to make them more relaxed and more appealing to new owners.

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