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African Governments Still Underfunding Health
Twelve years after African governments pledged in the Abuja Declaration to allocate at least 15 percent of their annual budgets to healthcare by 2015, just six countries have met this goal.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance
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Report Finds Gradual Fall in Female Genital Cutting in Africa
A comprehensive new assessment of the ancient practice of female genital cutting has found a gradual but significant decline in many countries, even in some where it remains deeply entrenched.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania’s Controversial Mobile Phone Tax Could Grow Revenues, At The Expense Of The Poor
A controversial new tax policy in the East African country of Tanzania could have an outsized effect on its low-income citizens -- the very people the tax revenues are intended to benefit.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Good Nurses of Busia County
When Aditi and I arrived in Busia, dust-splayed and weather-beaten on the shared backseat of a boda boda, we did not look like your average tourists.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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African fever patients commonly over-diagnosed with malaria
People hospitalised with fever in Africa are most likely to be treated for malaria but, in some areas, nearly all of these patients are ill from a different infection, a new collaborative study led by a University of Otago researcher suggests.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Psychiatrists decry mental health care in Africa
The drugs given to many of Africa's psychiatric patients are often administered to keep the patients asleep so the hurried nurses can get some rest, and those who can't sleep may have their hands or feet tied up.Yet these patients may be considered lucky, because across Africa most of those who need psychiatric care don't ever get it.
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As disease rates fall in Africa, EU urged to maintain health aid
African governments are spending more of their own money to combat the AIDS virus, malaria and other health plagues, but a senior global health official says progress in preventing infectious diseases could slow if the EU and other donors skimp on their aid.
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Imagining a ‘Smart Country’ – Such as Rwanda
Everyone is talking about “smart development” and “smart solutions” – the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to tackle the most pressing development problems such as poverty, access to basic services, and job creation. But if a whole country decided to become “smart” what would that look like to its citizens, government, and private sector?
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa