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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)

PORT-OF-SPAIN - Travelling within the Caribbean is way too hard says Dr Compton Bourne, president of the Caribbean Development Bank. Speaking during a Commonwealth Heads of Government Business Foru... (webremix.info)

China, important development partner in Africa - GTUC (webremix.info)

The Department of Social Development and the German Development Bank have signed a R76-million deal to improve the living conditions of child- and youth-headed households in South Africa. (webremix.info)

Adopting strategies that increase the development finance envelope in African countries will get rid og poverty (webremix.info)

Lack of finance hindering agricultural development in Africa (webremix.info)

Former President of the Gambia, Sir Dauda Jawara, has stressed the need for regional tourism development in Africa as panacea for peace and development. (webremix.info)

JOHANNESBURG, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - Workers living on a farm settlement about 35km from Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, bury their dead children secretly because parents cannot afford to get them to a clinic or hospital in time. (IRIN)

LILONGWE, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - The story of Esinati Chimpere, 29, a single mother living in Kanyumbaaka village, in the Balaka district of southern Malawi, reveals how stigma is refusing to die in some societies. (IRIN)

OUAGADOUGOU, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Burkina Faso government says thousands of flood-displaced families have till 30 November to quit temporary camps throughout the capital Ouagadougou. Some of those affected are worried about the deadline. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - Kenyan men and women are continuing to have unprotected sex with multiple partners - despite numerous national media campaigns to sensitise the public to the dangers of sex without a condom and multiple partners. (IRIN)

JOHANNESBURG, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - The ground-breaking Mine Ban Treaty (MBT), which came into force 10 years ago, will hold its second five-year review conference from 29 November to 4 December in the port city of Cartagena in northern Columbia. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - A new Ugandan study adds to a growing body of evidence that providing home-based antiretroviral (ARV) care in low-income settings can be as effective as facility-based interventions. (IRIN)

JOHANNESBURG, 25 November 2009 (IRIN) - That women and girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS is well established, but a new report reveals how little we know about what countries are doing, or not doing, to address their vulnerability. (IRIN)

Travelling within the Caribbean is way too hard, says Dr Compton Bourne, president of the Caribbean Development Bank. (webremix.info)

by ARETHA WELCHPORT-OF-SPAIN - Travelling within the Caribbean is way too hard says Dr Compton Bourne, president of the Caribbean Development Bank.Speaking during a Commonwealth Heads of Government Bu... (webremix.info)

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Liberia's development has been greatly impacted by the measures implemented by China under the China-Africa Cooperation initiative, as China has pledged US$10 billion in concessional loans to Africa. (webremix.info)

A groundbreaking partnership that will link African governments' commitment to agricultural development with concrete programs in seeds, soil health, policy, and markets was launched in Abuja on Monday between The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) (webremix.info)

JOHANNESBURG, 25 November 2009 (IRIN) - Two near misses by huge storms rolling in from the Indian Ocean have signalled an early start to Madagascar's cyclone season, prompting the humanitarian community to appeal for "urgent" preparedness funding. Meteorologists forecast that four to five intense cyclones could strike Madagascar during the 2009/10 season. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 25 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Kenyan government has launched an ambitious HIV campaign to test at least one million people across the country over a three-week period. (IRIN)

BUJUMBURA, 25 November 2009 (IRIN) - One of the guards of a provincial governor in Burundi seriously beat up a man in early November over a dispute involving a bicycle. The man died after a few days in hospital. The case received wide media coverage in Burundi, with human rights organizations condemning the incident and calling for legal action to be taken against the perpetrator. (IRIN)

DAKAR, 25 November 2009 (IRIN) - It would take US$8.8 billion annually over several years to halve the number of malnourished children worldwide, currently at some 178 million, says Save the Children in a new eight-point action plan. (IRIN)