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Many Ethiopians prefer to keep their HIV status hidden for fear of isolation
ADDIS ABABA, 12 March 2010 (PlusNews) – On stage in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Mestihet Temane, 27, enacts the …
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Source: IRIN • humanitarian news and analysis from Africa
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Meningitis belt in Africa
DAKAR, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) – This year there are less than half the reported meningitis infections than in the same period in 2009, but more patients are dying …
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Many of the FARDC troops include rebels integrated into the army. The UN and US reports accuse all groups of possible crimes against humanity (file photo)
NAIROBI, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) – Government …
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Meningitis belt in Africa
DAKAR, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) – This year there are less than half the reported meningitis infections than in the same period in 2009, but more patients are dying …
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Source: IRIN • humanitarian news and analysis from Africa
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Many Ethiopians prefer to keep their HIV status hidden for fear of isolation
ADDIS ABABA, 12 March 2010 (PlusNews) – On stage in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Mestihet Temane, 27, enacts the …
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Source: IRIN • humanitarian news and analysis from Africa
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Internally-displaced people in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: Armed Rwandan militias have been blamed for much of the violence there (file photo)
NAIROBI, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) – Rwanda’s upcoming presidential elections …
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Children share beds in the pediatric ward due to overcrowding
KYAKA II REFUGEE CAMP, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) – Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this …
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A Zambian health clinic
LUSAKA, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) – Parity Zulu, 17, constantly recited a Biblical verse asking God for protection from her persecutors while her mother ferried her to hospital following …
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River communities throughout central Mozambique are affected by flooding almost every.
JOHANNESBURG, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – Mozambique’s National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) has raised the flood alert level to “red” and …
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Too young to migrate away for work, young girls gather near a well in Makanga village in southern Niger’s Zinder region
NIAMEY/ZINDER, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) – A severe food and malnutrition …
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WHO polio technical officer Mohammed Mohammedi
DAKAR, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – It costs more to vaccinate a child in Chad against polio – almost 70 US cents per child – than in …
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A flooded section of the Ewaso Nyiro River along Isiolo-Samburu districts after heavy rains (file photo)
ISIOLO-NAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – At least 10,000 people in Kenya have been displaced by …
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A child with camels, donkeys and goats at the watering place near the village of Makanga
TANOUT, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – “Empty” increasingly describes the southern Niger town of Tanout in …
