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JOHANNESBURG, 2 December 2009 (IRIN) - AIDS researchers, scientists and activists have welcomed the changes to South Africa's HIV/AIDS treatment policy, announced by President Jacob Zuma on World AIDS Day. (IRIN)

JOHANNESBURG, 2 December 2009 (IRIN) - An array of interventions aimed at slowing the rate of new HIV infections in Africa has been tried over the last two decades. Some were tested to see if they actually worked, but many were not. (IRIN)

TORIT, 2 December 2009 (IRIN) - An ancient tradition of community governance in Southern Sudan could encourage peace-building among warring communities, say researchers. (IRIN)

MONROVIA, 2 December 2009 (IRIN) - With 45 percent of Liberians chronically or acutely malnourished, experts say nutrition is a burning health problem, but NGOs feel the Ministry of Health is not as worried as it should be, and lacks the capacity to provide leadership in bringing about solutions. (IRIN)

SEGOU, 2 December 2009 (IRIN) - In Mali the government has approved long-term leases for outside investors to develop more than 160,000 hectares of land. Government officials say the country could not develop its cultivable land otherwise, but local farmers say they fear being pushed out. (IRIN)

DAKAR, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - Land reform in Côte d'Ivoire must take into account people displaced by conflict, says a report by the International Displacement Monitoring Centre. (IRIN)

Regional Development Manager of West and Central Africa of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Mr Daniel Perrier has said human capital development remains the most important aspect of modern Customs administration. (webremix.info)

The Independent Development Trust (IDT) has unveiled a Contract Development Programme aimed at providing opportunities to emerging contractors in the building and construction industries. (webremix.info)

A partnership between the United States (US) and South Africa is expected to strengthen academic programs, skills development training and student support services at 12 selected FET colleges in South Africa. (webremix.info)

LONDON, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - Zimbabwean professionals in the UK say they will need to see real change before they would even consider going home, despite South Africa's ongoing attempts to resolve the disputes between the bickering partners in Zimbabwe's unity government. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - Phoebe Rajula is grateful that she and her daughter have access to life-prolonging antiretroviral medication, but the frequent trips to Mbagathi District Hospital in the capital, Nairobi, for their medication take a toll on her meagre finances and her energy levels. (IRIN)

CARTAGENA, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - It has taken just 10 years, but the effects of the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) have brought about a sea change in the use of antipersonnel mines, ensuring that the use of these bombs is becoming increasingly rare, and even offering the hope that these indiscriminate weapons will one day be consigned to the dustbin of history. (IRIN)

KAMPALA, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - As donors tighten their belts in the global recession, health experts in Uganda worry that the national antiretroviral (ARV) programme, which is almost entirely dependent on foreign aid, will be unable to keep providing the life-prolonging drugs. (IRIN)

KAMPALA, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - In a bid to reduce the rate of HIV transmission from mother to child, Uganda will now give all pregnant women highly active antiretroviral therapy. (IRIN)

MANILA, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - On 1 December, World AIDS Day, activists in the Philippines will be wearing nothing but the red AIDS ribbon in a campaign to raise awareness about the growing threat of HIV. (IRIN)

BONSAASO, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - Cell phones have cut dramatically the number of women dying during childbirth in Amensie village in south-central Ghana, according to local health officials. (IRIN)

The African Economic Conference, jointly organised by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on the theme "Fostering Development in an Era of Financial Economic and Crises", which ended yesterday in Tunis, has charged participating countries to come up with ideas needed to tackle the challenges and promote development. (webremix.info)

African educators, policymakers and first ladies met in Dakar this week to discuss how to increase and improve early childhood development on the continent. (webremix.info)

2009-10-13, Issue 452 (webremix.info)

A statement from the Ministry of Finance said Friday that the government plans to finalise arrangements for a US $30 million loan from the Caribbean Development Bank. (webremix.info)

Evelyn Kiapi interviews SYLVIA MWICHULI, deputy director of the U.N. Millennium Campaign Africa (webremix.info)

NAIROBI, 30 November 2009 (IRIN) - The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a new set of guidelines for the treatment of HIV and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) on 30 November. (IRIN)

JOHANNESBURG, 30 November 2009 (IRIN) - Some headway has been made in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and young people, but too many are still needlessly infected, and receive little or no treatment, care and support. (IRIN)

LUANDA, 30 November 2009 (IRIN) - The story of Epalanga, a poor farm boy, and his love for Belita, the daughter of a prosperous village merchant, captured the hearts of Angolans when the national broadcaster started airing the soap opera, "Camatondo", in 2004. (IRIN)

MBABANE, 30 November 2009 (IRIN) - After two decades of drought the urgent prayers in Swaziland's annual incwala ceremony, a month-long ritual in which ancestral spirits are petitioned for good rains, have been answered with weeks of torrential downpours. Floods now threaten food security. (IRIN)

MASERU, 30 November 2009 (IRIN) - Mamaleshoae Nkhahle is a mother of four who works as an expert patient at the Likotsi health clinic in Lesotho's capital, Maseru. She helps people newly diagnosed with HIV to come to grips with the stigma of the disease, and diminishes the effects of such attitudes by talking openly about her own experiences of living with the virus. (IRIN)

JOHANNESBURG, 30 November 2009 (IRIN) - The theme for World AIDS Day 2009 is 'Universal Access and Human Rights', and the efforts of the continent's developing countries to reach some of the key indicators of universal access are under closer scrutiny than ever. Will they do it? (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 30 November 2009 (IRIN) - More than 70,000 people have been displaced by inter-communal clashes in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo's Equateur province, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). (IRIN)

African educators, policymakers and first ladies meet in Dakar to discuss how to increase and improve early childhood development (webremix.info)

African educators, policymakers and first ladies meet in Dakar to discuss how to increase and improve early childhood development (webremix.info)

MONROVIA, 27 November 2009 (IRIN) - “My first kid died because I breastfed him after my husband had had an affair,” Tina Kollie, mother of a seven-month-old in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, told IRIN. She has not breastfed any children since. “[If I breastfeed], whenever my husband has an affair my child gets sick.” (IRIN)