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Reducing maternal deaths in Africa
Maternal deaths in Africa would decline if women had access to well-equipped health centres with suitably trained and skilled staff. Africa Renewal’s Mary Kimani...
Guinea-Bissau-Senegal: On the child trafficking route
In northern Guinea-Bissau, in the dark of night, a dilapidated bus carrying 17 children is parked on a quiet side road. Its driver awaits...
DRC: Poor harvest threatens food security, transport problems close feeding centre
Many tens of thousands of displaced people in Democratic Republic of Congo's conflict-ridden South Kivu province face serious food shortages in the coming months...
UN emergency fund CERF and NGOs – “Progress made, progress to make”
In a January report, Save the Children UK - one of the more vocal non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on humanitarian financing reforms - criticised the...
Ethiopia: Six more NGOs to operate in Somali region
More aid agencies – including three medical organisations - have been approved to operate in the troubled Somali region of Ethiopia.
Mercy Corps, International Medical...
New improved disaster response tool
A new tool has been developed to help humanitarian agencies and donors analyse a disaster situation, make a comparison with another disaster that might...
Mogadishu residents trapped by violence – MSF
Increasing violence in parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu has trapped many residents, leaving them with no safe place to go, Médecins Sans Frontières...
HAITI: Children start getting specialised AIDS services
Erika, 17, (not her real name) is one of an estimated 17,000 children living with HIV in Haiti, the Caribbean island most affected by...
HIV-positive pastor shouts from the pulpit
Rev Maxwell Kapachawo is the only known pastor in Zimbabwe who publicly admits to being HIV-positive; he is also encouraging any of his peers...
Vaccine failure a setback for anti-AIDS efforts
News that one of the most promising and advanced HIV vaccine trials has been halted has dealt a serious blow to global AIDS prevention...