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HEALTH-KENYA: PMTCT Projects at Stake
- Inter Press Service
Pregnant mothers who are HIV-positive could soon find it challenging to access life-saving HIV drugs because Kenya was denied 270 million dollars in funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
EAST AFRICA: Anti-Counterfeit Laws Threaten Attainment of MDG Six
- Inter Press Service
East African countries risk not attaining the millennium development goal (MDG) on universal treatment of people living with HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases if the region’s parliament adopts the anti-counterfeits policy and bill currently under consideration.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Native Peoples Reject Market Mechanisms
- Inter Press Service
Solutions to global warming based on the logic of the market are a threat to the rights and way of life of indigenous peoples, the Latin American Indigenous Forum on Climate Change concluded this week in Costa Rica.
DEVELOPMENT: No Room for Complacency in Avian Flu - Experts
- Inter Press Service
Government and international non-government organisations need to put as much effort in fighting the spread of complacency in the battle against the H5N1 virus as they do in curbing avian flu itself, experts say.
EAST EUROPE: Organic Farming Blossoms
- Inter Press Service
Eastern Europe's organic food industry is mushrooming as it brushes off the effects of the global recession, and more consumers in the region turn to healthier foods.
UGANDA: NGOs Judging Oil Palm on Hearsay, Says U.N.
- Inter Press Service
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are guilty of judging a palm oil project in Uganda on innuendo rather than its merits, the United Nations poverty agency supporting the controversial scheme said, as the project starts to bear fruit for smallholder farmers.
PERU: The Tangled Paths of New Forest Law
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous protests prompted the introduction of a new legislative bill on forests and wildlife in Peru, the second most forested country in South America. Experts consulted by Tierramérica pointed to what the initiative gets right, but also to what's wrong with it.
RIGHTS-BAHRAIN: It’s Time to Abolish the Death Penalty - Activists
- Inter Press Service
Bahrain has observed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty for years, but many are watching to see if the Gulf country will follow the international trend toward the abolition of capital punishment in the future.
NIGER: Livestock Herders Plan Ahead
- Inter Press Service
The cows Djibo Hama looks after belong to someone else, but he is diligent. Anticipating a severe shortage of good grazing in 2010, he secured cattle feed for the 35 that remain.
AUSTRALIA: Questions Persist about Troops in East Timor
- Inter Press Service
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) may have reduced its numbers in East Timor as that country’s stability improves, but the controversy created by its troops’ behaviour continues to raise questions about their sensitivity to the political situation there.
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