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IRIN - Guinea
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GUINEA: Aid on the way after hail flattens crops
DAKAR Friday, August 06, 2010 (IRIN) - UN agencies on 7 August will deliver food, seeds, fertilizer and other relief supplies to Guinea?s Labé region, where hundreds of families lost maize and vegetable crops in a hail storm.
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Analysis: Unconditional money
JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 02, 2010 (IRIN) - A World Bank study that put money in the hands of girls and their parents in Malawi's poor southern region has caused ripples across the debate on cash transfers in academic and aid communities.
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Analysis: HIV generics under threat from tighter patenting rules
VIENNA Monday, August 02, 2010 (IRIN) - Most of the estimated 5.2 million people worldwide on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment are taking generic versions manufactured primarily in India, but tighter global intellectual property rights and trade rules could shut down "the pharmacy of the developing world".
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WEST AFRICA: Hail storms, record rains
DAKAR Monday, August 02, 2010 (IRIN) - The 2010 rainy season in West Africa has opened with hail storms in Guinea and the heaviest rain in 50 years in northern Chad. Floods have killed at least 80 people and destroyed bridges, homes, septic tanks, livestock, crops and food stocks; dams have broken, and wells and latrines have been submerged.
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AFRICA: It's how you spend the money that saves lives
KAMPALA/JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, July 28, 2010 (IRIN) - Members of the African Union (AU) reaffirmed at the end of their meeting on 27 July in Kampala, Uganda, that they would strive to spend 15 percent of their national budgets on health, but at the end of the day it is about how "effectively and efficiently" you spend the money, not about how much.
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