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Download full version of the new book by Malene Haakanson, who portrays the struggle of an Ethiopian family through the cause of one year.
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All of these people are not statistics. This is the child of somebody, it is the mother of some child. It is the father of a family.” A major religious leader says the world can no longer think of HIV in developing countries as a problem that sits in isolation from other countries.
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After leaving the tar road, we have been driving for an hour through deep sand and then onto the vast Zambezi food plains with only human footpaths to follow. In the distance we see a small thatched structure and our local guide tells us that this is where we can find Margaret, the local chairperson of Women for Change.
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Taking in a 13-year-old orphan has turned out to be a true blessing for a poor family in Uganda.
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The refugee camps in Darfur are alive with conversations and activities, where men and women are busy with daily chores, literacy classes, meetings and income-generating activities. Gathered in a community center, the women talk about their fears of being attacked and their desire to go back home. Although Sudan's president al-Bashir ordered 16 humanitarian organisations out of the country in March 2009, the humanitarian organisations and the people in the camps are still going strong. They are hopeful.
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Since January 23rd, 2006, DCA’s HMA Programme in Angola has been helping to demine a vast area just outside the city of Luena known as Alto Campo.
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A member of DanChurchAid’s mine clearing staff in Angola, Antonio Maliti was working in a minefield in the village Chicololo in the eastern part of Angola, when an unintended explosion caused Antonio to loose all fingers on his right hand.
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Derieg camp was and is Fiza’s safe haven since she fled with her family from the Janjaweed 5 years ago. The noise and clutter of the 22.000 IDPs here is nothing compared to the fear of attack, rape or death. Here she can earn money as a tailor, drink tea in the afternoon with her friends at the women’s community center and sleep safe.
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In DR Congo women are being sexually assaulted on a regular basis. Nobody knows the extent of the assaults, but word has it, that it is tens of thousands. Margaret is one of the women, who has survived.
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The sound of the explosion reminded Kalemie’s inhabitants of the horrible periods of war the town has gone through. But this time, the explosion took place under the full control of DanChurchAid’s humanitarian mine action team operating in the Eastern DR Congo.
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Traditionally, Dehana district in the mountains of central Ethiopia is very fertile, but climate changes mean that almost fifty per cent of the population needs food assistance.
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One year after the presidential election between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, we are moving slowly forward, writes Christian Larsen, who has lived and worked in the country for two years.
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I support the recommendations of the Africa Commission – but remember that “you cannot use a report on primary schools to implement a tax reform”, warns Christian Friis Bach, International Director, DanChurchAid.
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On 6 January 2009, the Ethiopian parliament passed the long awaited - and feared – new bill on voluntary associations and organisations.
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When war once again chased Bageni Katembereza from her home village in September, she shepherded her six children down the dirt roads of eastern Congo toward safety, not knowing where she was headed, only sensing she had to get away.
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The majority of Malawi’s children are either malnourished or undernourished, some of them so badly, that they don’t live through their early years. The parents of the children most often are too poor to prevent it.
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Security situation:The situation in North Kivu is relatively calm at the moment.
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However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
After the death of the 3rd Republican President of Zambia, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, on 19th August 2008, by-elections were announced and were eventually held on the 30th of October within the 90 days stipulated by the Constitution. The overall impression is that the elections were carried out in a free, fair and peaceful manner.
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60 young representatives from 22 different African countries gave their proposals and recommendations to the African Commission this week.
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While official figures of newly displaced people in crowded camps around Goma are still being determined, another reality of displacement remains in the shadows: the thousands of families who have opened their modest homes to fleeing strangers.
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The security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remains precarious and aid groups do not yet know what effect the most recent violence will have on the latest cease fire or humanitarian situation. First hand report from ACT aid worker in DR Congo.
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After panic and lootings by retreating troops a deadly calm has fallen over Goma in Eastern Congo.
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By the shore of Lake Malawi women offer their bodies as payment for freshly caught fish, since they have no money. The nightly activities spread HIV and produces fatherless children. SWAM project helps the women take better care of them selves.
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The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa.
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The global credit crisis will have dramatic consequences for the poorest, because those who fund
them are hit by the breakdown," says John Nduna, director of ACT International. Read more...
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The Malawian farmers slog away in the dry fields. But that isn’t always enough to provide their families with food. The ELDS program helps the farmers to save money and groundnuts, to secure that they don’t starve.
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DanChurchAid’s (DCA) Humanitarian Mine Action programme is closing its mine clearance activities in Burundi after almost four years. DCA has finalised all tasks that has been entrusted to the programme by the Burundian government, except from one area, which continues to be inaccessible due to security reasons. The area in question is a strong hold of one of the rebel groups still active in Burundi.
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The past is scary, but the upcoming elections in Angola on September 5th has every possibility to turn a new page in the country’s history
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Refugees are now seriously returning to South Sudan. Expectations are high but there is very little to come home to
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Heavy torrential rains since August 16, 2008 in the Gambella regional state in Ethiopia have caused severe flooding, affecting thousands of people and destroying farmland and homes.
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On August 4, 2008 the Executive Director of the Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ), Dr. Simon Mphuka, passed away at the age of 46 in what was felt as an untimely death of a visionary, charismatic and engaged leader. Simon Mphuka was an excellent listener and always smiling in spite of the often serious nature of the work he and DanChurchAid would discuss together.
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Even though the regime in Khartoum and the revolutionary movement SPLM in south have been persuaded to lay down their arms, the challenges of gaining permanent peace in Sudan are huge.
This is said by Mads Frilander, programme officer in DanChurchAid in South Sudan.
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This is said by Mads Frilander, programme officer in DanChurchAid in South Sudan.
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Mahder Tsegaw is one of the ‘‘GIVE A GOAT ’’ beneficiaries in Amhara regional state in Dehana, namely in Berbera village. Receiving the donation of goats has changed her life.
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After months of languishing in the hundreds of overcrowded, understaffed, and undersupplied camps, Kenya’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) are finally returning home.
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In the days, months and years directly after the war in the eastern part of Katanga province in Congo has ended, life has been far from easy. The 650 men, women and children of Kalombo village are just barely getting back to normalcy, since 2003 when the last armed attack occurred.
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Fellowship of Christian Councils in East and Southern Africa (FOCCISA) met on 2nd and 3rd July 2008 in Gaborone, Botswana and discussed the problems Zimbabwe is going through at the moment.
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The joint ethio-dansih NGO programme in North Wollo started in 1997 and is a collaboration between the three Danish NGO's Save the Children, Danish Red Cross and DanChurchAid and their Ethiopian partners. The purpose was to relieve the food crisis and support agricultural development in North Wollo, a very poor area in Ethiopia.
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The poor people in the development countries are the ones who must pay the biggest price for the climate changes even though it is largely our way of living in the rich countries which contributes the most to create the climate changes.
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Mobile phone batteries from at least four leading mobile phone producers contain cobalt from DR Congo. These companies run the risk of supporting illegal export and unfair mining practices, which often involve severe human rights abuses. A report by DanWatch, May 30 2008. Commissioned by DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival Copenhagen.
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Mine clearance is thorough and meticulous work and in DR Congo highly influenced by weather and vegetation. This video shows a DanChurchAid deminer in action.
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The village of Kamumba was once a prosperous fishing community. But during the five year long war it was turned in to a military camp. Though the war is over, the mines remain, preventing the villagers from returning.
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DCA's Humanitarian Mine Action programme concentrates on clearing agricultural land of mines, in order to link mine clearance with food security for the population in affected areas.
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Since mine threats as well as HIV/AIDS prevalence are high in DR Congo, DCA has developed a new approach combining both MRE and HIV/AIDS education programmes. Detailed impact surveys of mine-affected areas are also being carried out, assessing the threats posed and their social and economic repercussions.
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Line Brylle has just returned home after working with a Humanitarian Mine Action Programme for two years in one of the most war torn countries in the world.
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Ethiopia is on the verge of a hunger disaster. In the Southern Oromiya region people are already suffering.
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Most people know of fair trade coffee and bananas. But when it comes to mobile phones and other electronic equipment, the trade is far from fair. DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival aim to change this now.
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The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) has granted 24 million DKK for DanChurchAid’s HMA programmes in Africa and Asia.
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A large group of children gather in front of Um Gozein School in Mershing, South Darfur, filling the yard with the excited chatter of their young voices. They are lined up and eager to receive school kits being distributed by ACT-Caritas.
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The government has just published the composition of the new Africa Commission. DanChurchAid’s international director, Christian Friis Bach is on the list.
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The dramatic price increase on basic food such as rice, maize and various cereal crops, has dire consequences for the poor in developing countries. This is reported by DanChurchAid’s representatives in Asia, Central America and Africa.
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Three years ago a truck overturned in Angola claiming nine lives - the most tragic accident in the historiy of DanChurchAid
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According to a new report published by DanChurchAid, the number of AIDS orphans is projected to exceed 20 million worldwide by 2010. In 2005 that same figure was 15 million orphans. It is a tragedy of enormous dimensions and it puts a tremendous strain on the traditional family safety net and community structures.
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Human suffering is often visible and obvious in both natural distasters and civil conflict – hunger, injuries and people forced from their homes by destruction or violence. But often there are hidden and less visible needs of people who are among the most vulnerable in an emergency situation.
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Under the shade of a straw roof, the space is alive with chatter. Children play outside while women gather in groups to practice newly learnt skills that include making pasta and traditional mat weaving.
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DanChurchAid (DCA) Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) program in DR Congo has signed a one year contract with the AECI, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation under the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for an amount of 554.713 Euros to finance Mine Action activities in Eastern Congo.
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As the political stalemate continues and violence associated with the highly controversial December 27th elections of 2007 escalates and spreads, camps for those displaced throughout Kenya are operating beyond their capacity.
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While political parties and outside mediators struggle to find a peaceful solution to Kenya’s election dispute, young people find a different challenge as they wrestle with crisis in a once peaceful country.
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Finnish report from DanChurchAid’s Humanitarian Mine Action project in Eastern Angola
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Ann Owino is one among tens of thousands of Kenyans forced from their homes by post-election violence. She wants to return home to the Kiambiu slum with her two children, but fears doing so in the midst of the ongoing turmoil.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and DanChurchAid (DCA) hosted an international seminar 'Protection of Civilians - Learning from Darfur' in Copenhagen autumn 2007. A report has been made based on the seminar. It can be downloaded from www.r2p.eu.
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Millions of Kenyans went to the polls to choose their president in the national elections after Christmas. But for Benta Nyipolo and hundreds of thousands of Kenyans like her, being forced from their homes in the violence sparked by the election dispute was something they did not choose.
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Rising tensions and violence in Kenya following a disputed election has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people with tens of thousands fleeing their homes.
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Climate change, which results in floods, unpredictable rain, drought, and hunger, occurs in many African countries today. Traditional pastoral people are among the worst hit. The pastoralists depend on the welfare of their animals, which means adequate access to water and fertile grazing land.
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DanChurchAid works with HIV/AIDS through local organisations in Malawi. DanChurchAid's local partners in Malawi are mainly church-based organisations with an understanding of the situation of the poor at grass roots level, gained through a long-standing presence in the communities.
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A humanitarian problem that will not go away quickly: Recent killings of African Union peacekeepers and World Food Programme contract drivers combined with detentions of humanitarian workers in the conflict-ridden Darfur region of western Sudan are just the latest examples of a deteriorating situation, which is prompting increased anxiety by those affected by the ongoing crisis, as well as by those responding to the emergency, soon to enter its fifth year.
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George William Odeke is a local councilperson in the flooded village of Adurukoi in the eastern Ugandan district of Katakwi. “I don’t know what will happen next year because the food is just finished. If the rain continues, we will undoubtedly need food relief,” said Mr.
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A group of 100 marginalized women have this summer been selected to participate in a goat husbandry project in order to ensure sustainable livelihoods. They are all from an area of Ethiopia that has struggled with drought for the last six years.
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Due to illness, kidnapping and forced marriage, 21-year-old Medina Duna had to quit school. She is one of the 100 participants in the DanChurchAid’s goat husbandry project and she now hopes it will make her able to send her oldest daughter to school.
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Adanech Eriso is the mother of four children and recently she became the owner of four goats through DanChurchAid’s goat husbandry project. She has decided that each goat should provide for each child’s school fee.
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Heavy torrential rains in Ethiopia have caused severe flooding in the Amhara and Gambella Regional States affecting more than 60,000 people and destroying farmland, roads and homes. The intensity of the rainfall and the magnitude of the floods is reported to be worse than the 2006 rainy season in which approximately 98,000 people were affected in the various areas of the region.
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Research in literacy levels in Karamoja region using population projections and visits at every Manyatta reveals that eighty eight percent of the people in the region cannot read and write the Moroto district Education Officer, Mr. Paul Abul has said.
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Watch how the Ugandan NGO KADP works with drought preparedness in Karamoja and how they help improve the quality of life for the Karamojongs, who are among the poorest groups in Uganda.
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Interview with Peter Ramazani, a Congolese Chief of Operations in training within DanChurchAid's DR Congo Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) Programme.
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A milk goat project funded by the DanChurchAid, a Danish Charity Organisation for women groups in the districts of Moroto and Nakapiripirit has improved the quality of life in more than 100 families.
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One thing you notice on returning to Karamoja after a year or so is that someone has splendidly done well out of selling agriculrural products, sorghum, millet, beans, Sim sim rice and potatoes.
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Authorities in Moroto district have blamed the outbreak of infectious livestock diseases in the entire Karamoja region on cattle rustling across the borders to Kenya.
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An infectious livestock disease has broken out in the district of Moroto and other parts Nakapiripiriti districts killing hundreds of animals, the Livestock development assistant, Mr. Simon Peter Louse has said.
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Local leadership in Karamoja region are seeking plans to end the long running cattle rustling battles with their neighbours, the Pokot and Turkana of Kenya.
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Despite the intensity of the ongoing disarmament exercise in Karamoja region through cordon and search method, 8 people have been killed and 318 livestock have been raided in Moroto district in the month of June alone.
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Leadership in Karamoja have named Kenya, Southern Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia as the main sources of most of the illicit arms in Karamoja region.
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With thousands of people forcefully driven from their homes into overcrowded camps, where both resources and opportunities are short, disputes have become a frequent feature of life for many of Darfur’s displaced.
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Rose Imilima lives in the eastern Ugandan district of Katakwi. She never imagined that she would spend her life struggling to survive. In fact, she never thought she would spend her life alone, but when her husband died, she was left without a means to support herself.
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One evening towards the end of June, a crowd of 300 people or so gather round the local football pitch in Zalingei town in West Darfur. For the first time ever, a football match is being played between young people from Khamsadegaig camp and the local youth team from Zalingei. The match, organised by ACT-Caritas, is an effort to bridge the gap between those displaced by the conflict and the local community.
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In South Darfur, another 3,000 people have been forced to flee their homes because of brutal attacks on their villages, adding their number to the more than 2.5 million others in Darfur that have suffered the same fate. The conflict has killed at least 200,000 people since violence escalated in 2004.
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Five months ago, Lino Lokwkawa and his family came out of hiding from the mountains. They had fled to escape the violence during the 20-year civil war in south Sudan. Now, the Lokwkawa family and others have begun returning home to Ikotos County in Eastern Equatoria and are re-establishing their lives in the village of Longairo.
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One of the poorest parts of Ethiopia got an extraordinary visit in mid June. The Danish Minister of Development, Ulla Tørnæs, visited the DanChurchAid agriculture component of the Ethio-Danish Joint programme in North Wollo.
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The Mennonite Central Committee, a long-standing partner of ACT-Caritas, sent over 40,000 blankets to the Darfur Emergency Program (DERO), to assist conflict-affected communities in the province. But these are no ordinary blankets - they have been individually hand-made by members of the Mennonite community in the U.S.
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On Sunday 17th June, an ACT-Caritas employee was shot and killed on his way home from work in West Darfur. ”This killing shows how cruel and chaotic the situation is in Darfur. It’s unacceptable to do humanitarian work in this environment but we have to continue. A lot of people are dependent on our help,” says Lisa Henry, Relief Director in DanChurchAid.
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DanChurchAid continues to work in Darfur despite the worsening security situation. 72,000 people are being provided with access to clean water, latrines, and skills in good hygiene practices.
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DCA partner Circles of Hope in Zambia is working to improve awareness of HIV/AIDS, to encourage people to attend counseling and testing, they fight against stigmatization by openly declaring their status. They encourage positive living and try some income generating activities to help the affected families.
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Sudan: A sand track leads north from Zalingei to the village of Abata, but these days few people travel along it. The track is flanked by tall acacia trees, and every so often the track cuts through a group of deserted, roofless shells of buildings. The countryside is silent. Where there were villages, only the wind now speaks through the trees.
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Not every year can tell good news about the harvest in Ethiopia. But after last year’s drought which affected millions of people, and huge floods affecting another hundreds of thousands, the Ethiopian government announces that a good harvest is expected in 2007.
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On Thursday, March 15, DanChurchAid and 20 of its local partners paid a notable visit to the Ethiopian Parliament. The group saw the parliament in session in the morning and in the afternoon the group met with chairpersons of three Standing Committees. This is the first time in a long while that the civil society and members of Parliament engage in a dialogue and the meeting was mentioned in the evening news on the national television channel, ETV.
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A study carried out by the Poverty Action Network Ethiopia, PANE, shows that food aid is important for the most vulnerable groups but the study also uncovers major problems of dependency.
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Providing remote rural communities with access to health care has been one of the principal achievements of ACT/Caritas’s health care program in Kubum locality, south Darfur. A mobile clinic has been just part of the solution. However, as funding reduces, sustainability is now a major concern.
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Firewood collection: A threat to women and a threat to the environment. ACT/Caritas’s Darfur Emergency Response Operation is working on initiatives to protect both.
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Recent flooding in Luanda, Benguela and other western Angolan provinces have resulted in the deaths of some 90 people and have contributed to a worsening cholera outbreak.
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Two Danish and three local employees were caught in a teargas battle when an allegedly illegal demonstration was dispersed with teargas by Ugandan Police on January 26th. The group was returning from a workshop outside Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
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Flash floods have left thousands of people homeless and crops washed away in the Karonga district, about 300 km north of the capital Lilongwe, Malawi. According to Karonga District Commissioner, more than 20 villages have been completely flattened by the floods.
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“Women for Change” is a grassroots organisation in Zambia with the dynamic leader Emily Sikazwe, who has spent a lot of time fighting government persecution of the free press and of the opposition. Stine Leth-Nissen, Head of Advocacy in DanChurchAid met Emily Sikazwe at the World Social Forum.
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Poor people are at higher risk of HIV infection. Poverty increases the vulnerability to the disease and it makes the already poor poorer. These are some of the conclusions in a new report done by one of DanChurchAid’s partners in Zambia.
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Darfur: As the sun rises from behind the mountain, boys in long, white shirts, known as “jelabia,” hurry through the streets of Nertiti, kicking up the dust with their feet.
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The big advantage of goats – that they eat almost everything – is also a big disadvantage. Therefore, goat rearing must be accompanied by conservation of the environment.
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Darfur: Over the past two months, more than 10,000 people have arrived in Otash camp, fleeing attacks on their homes in the Tulus and Buram localities in Sudan’s South Darfur province.
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To mark World AIDS Day (December 1), the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC), a local partner of ACT-Caritas, has organized three days of events in Nyala town, the capital of South Darfur state.
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DanChurchAid and many Danish NGOs are very sceptical about the Danida funded project “Empower the poor – Engage the Danes”, initially known as the Copenhagen Consensus Competition. Civil society actors in five selected African countries are invited to participate in the government competition and submit project ideas within four thematic areas. Subsequently, five famous Danes will select five winner projects, which will be presented to Danida for funding.
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Gunfire, fields alight and homes burning. Around 40,000 civilians have been forced from their homes in the eastern region of South Darfur in the past month.
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DanChurchAid’s humanitarian mine action programme in eastern DR Congo has recently created a new team for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) tasks. During the first week's work in Uvira the team destroyed 108 UXOs - and that is only the beginning.
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Development of the mine clearance system WADS enters a new and exciting phase. During the past twelve months, the big mine clearance system WADS has been tested in very difficult areas in eastern Angola. When the system is fully developed, the WADS should be able to clear roads much faster than ever before and thus open areas for development and traffic. And the need is huge in the country stricken by civil war for decades.
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After many months of hard work, the new DanChurchAid demining team in Angola is now ready to do their first official hand-over of a piece of land. With detectors, small shovels, brushes, and hands, the 40 deminers have inch by inch gone through every spot of the more than 3.3 hectare large area.
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For some of the internally displaced people living in camps in Darfur, it is now safe to go home. However, those who can go home are not Darfurians; they are the displaced from southern Sudan who, two decades ago, fled fighting in their homeland.
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A series of fires have since mid June until the end of September ravaged and destroyed an estimated 1.500 houses in 8 villages in and around Salamabila in Southeastern Maniema Province in the eastern DR Congo.
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In September, DanChurchAid DR Congo programme based in Kalemie, Katanga Province, received an important visit by Miss Monika Tortschanoff, Human Rights and Civil Society representative of the European Commission Delegation in DR Congo and Mr Harouna Ouedraogo, Programme Manager for United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC) in DR Congo.
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In a field, 5 km outside of Kalemie in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 men and 13 women have been training for more than three weeks. Ten of these trainees will form part of two new teams that are to work with humanitarian mine clearance under the "Humanitarian Mine Action Program", funded by Europeaid with 940 000 Euros and running from the April 1, 2006, until March 31, 2008.
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DanChurchAid's food security work is focused on the right to adequate and nutritious food and adresses the structural barriers to food security in Zambia .
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DanChurchAid in Zambia is working with HIV/AIDS prevention and counselling. The rights of orphans and care for families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS are in focus.
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In Kitgum, the relationship between the Church of Uganda and the Uganda country program of the Lutheran World Federation is a good example of ACT members' close working relationship. There is an old adage that says, “Two heads are better than one.” Adapted to a case of humanitarian organizations working in situations of emergency relief - two working together is better than one - the adage rings true.
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Despite intense world pressure, Sudan still resists UN force in Darfur. Sudan faces escalating world pressure in coming weeks to reverse its dogged opposition to the dispatch of a large UN force in war-torn Darfur where UN officials are warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis, writes ReliefWeb.
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DanChurchAid and 20 other Danish NGOs call on the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Per Stig Møller to place conflicts, which are based on trade with natural resources such as coltan used in mobile phones, on the agenda of the Security Council.
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People living in camps in Darfur depend on humanitarian aid agencies for all their basic needs: food, water, shelter and essential household items. But with community centers in eleven camps, ACT-Caritas is providing something more: These centers help people overcome trauma.
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In recent months, following attacks by armed militias in Chad, hundreds of refugees from Darfur have fled back across the border into Sudan. Too afraid of the militias to return to their villages, they are sheltering in the town of Juguma.
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Darfur: One boy dies, houses collapse, crops destroyed and water sources contaminated in one of the worst floods Kubum has seen for years. As residents of Kubum started their day’s work on the morning of Thursday, August 10, water started flowing into the town and the villages of Falanduge and Nyilela. Roads were turned into streams, gardens into swamps, and houses into basins of water.
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Over the past few months, humanitarian organizations in Darfur have become the focus of armed attacks, forcing a suspension of humanitarian activities in certain areas. ACT-Caritas water committees continued to work during the suspensions, providing clean water to their communities. But if the pattern of violence is sustained, will they be able to cope?
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ACT Ethiopia Forum members - DanChurchAid, Christian Aid, Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), Lutheran World Federation (LWF), and Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) - are preparing to respond to floods in Ethiopia. The response will be implemented mainly through EECMY’s South West Synod in Omo Valley and EOC in Dira Dawa region.
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In Nyala, the principal town in south Darfur, some youths have chosen to fight. But they have taken up arms against a very different opponent to that of other armed groups - they are fighting against HIV/AIDS.
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Hundreds of families who have spent two months sheltering in school buildings now have their own individual shelters.
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Villages across Ukambani district outside Machackos, Kenya, each received 24 kilograms of corn flour distributed by the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church, a local partner of Church World Service, which in turn is a member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International.
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People living in camps in South Darfur continue to live in fear.
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The health clinic in Garsila is finding it hard to cope with an influx of patients. There are not enough staff and not enough drugs to treat the sick.
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The people of Mershing are living in fear of another militia attack. Only five months ago, the town was raided, and 55,000 people were displaced.
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The displaced people of Darfur have started to call for justice and protection from international forces.
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Kitgum District has been one of the hardest-hit areas during the long-running conflict in Northern Uganda. Insecurity and fear of attacks from Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels as well as the Karamojong have dislodged an enormous number of people from their homes, forcing them into IDP camps under the protection of the Ugandan People's Defense Force.
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Community organizes to find solutions, but livelihoods move in new directions.
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In a unique co-peration, ACT and Caritas have shared their resources to work together to help many of the 1.9 million internally displaced people in Darfur.
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From the Katondwe Mission Hospital in Zambia the Sisters and local volunteers work hard to fight HIV/AIDS. Katondwe is one of eight project sights in the Danida/DCA funded FCCT programme; a programme that works to spread a “social vaccine” against the HIV/AIDS virus in Zambia.
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More than 500 drought-affected families in the Machakos region of Kenya received maize through a relief program coordinated by Church World Service (CWS), a member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, and its local partner, the Africa Brotherhood Church (ABC).
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In Zambia a group of women fight to change oppressing traditions and rituals that increase the women’s risk of being infected with HIV.
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HIV and AIDS have scoured Kenya with many early deaths, leaving behind children, wives, mothers and grandmothers. Twelve million children in sub-Saharan Africa have been orphaned by AIDS, and the number grows daily.
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While much of Kenya is experiencing the rainy season, in Masongaleni of Kibwezi, within Kenyan's Makueni District, there has been only one millimeter of rainfall.
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The role of the church in Sudan is far from finished. After the peace agreement between the north and the south, there is a need for information, reconciliation and also integration of the returning refugees.
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Drought induced crop failures have been the most common disasters experienced in Zambia, but floods, crop and livestock diseases also occur.
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DanChurchAid supports HIV/AIDS prevention and control projects. A HIV/AIDS programme has been initiated to prevent the further spread of the disease and to protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
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The peace deal between the government of Sudan and the main southern rebel movement the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement signed in January 2005 has taken its first steps forward. On 10 May a joint military ceasefire committee met to discuss how to implement the peace deal which officially ends one of Africa’s longest and deadliest wars.
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Almost all poverty indicators are in regression in Zambia. The situation affects the poor people’s rights, the health system and the food security.
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East Africa is in the grip of its worst drought for more than 20 years. The UN estimates that more than 8 million people across eastern Africa are in desperate need of food and water.
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After a terrible period of hunger in Malawi, it looks like it will be a good harvest after all. DanChurchAid has concentrated on long-term aid such as in the village of Kawala in the central Malawi where a group of women have worked together to secure food for their families.
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DanChurchAid aims at ensuring civic and political rights in Zambia for the rural poor, especially women. The development objective is to enable the rural poor and women to exercise their rights.
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The widening of civic and political space in Malawi is a matter of raising awareness of the notion of rights at all levels. DanChurchAid's programme work in Malawi is addressing issues that deter the most vulnerable from being involved in the decision-making processes that affect them.
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Christian Aid, a member of ACT International, is working in Ethiopia helping to provide water and work for the Borana so that they can find ways to cope with this crisis.
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Outside the town of El Wak, on the Kenya-Somalia border, more than 200 families are living in makeshift camps, waiting for assistance. Four months ago the camp did not even exist.
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DanChurchAid Humanitarian Mine Action program in DR Congo has signed a two-year contract with Delegation of the European Commission in Kinshasa, starting 1 April 2006, for an amount of 940 000 Euros to finance Mine Action activities in Eastern Congo. In addition to this amount DCA will contribute 114.239 Euro of it own funds to the same project.
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The food shortage caused by a drought in parts of Kenya is quickly reaching a crisis stage, with the World Food Program warning of “absolutely catastrophic” consequences if aid is not delivered to some areas in a matter of days.
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The 2005 national election in Ethiopia witnessed 116 women voted into parliament, thus implicating that women now hold more than 20% of the seats. That is three times as many compared to previous elections and a higher female proportion than in many European parliaments.
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The Ethiopian Muslims’ Relief and Development Association (EMRDA) is an indigenous faith based NGO established in 1994 and legally registered with the Ministry of Justice with the objective of preventing abject poverty and unemployment through participation and sustainable integrated rural development.
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African Development Aid Association (ADAA) is an indigenous non-profit making NGO established in 1988. It currently operates in the central & southern parts of Ethiopia, specifically in Oromia Regional State.
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Talent Youth Association (TAYA) was established by ten youths who came from different colleges, universities and institution of higher learning. TaYA is legally registered with the Ministry of Justice to function as a local NGO in Ethiopia.
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EECMY/LWF (Lutheran World Federation) is an active partner of the DanChurchAid food security programme and has a strong network throughout Ethiopia.
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DanChurchAid is working with women’s rights through local organisations in Ethiopia.
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Agri Service Ethiopia (ASE) is a national, non-governmental and non-profit making development organization, established in 1969. ASE is focussing on integrated food security projects.
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DanChurchAid and Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Inter Church Aid Commission (EOC/DICAC) started to cooperate in 2005 in Wadla, North Wollo, Ethiopia. EOC/DICAC is specialised in rural development projects.
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Kambatti Mentti Gezzimma-Tope (KMG) is a women-focused, community development organization established in 1997. Funded by DanChurchAid, KMG has implemented a project around the 2005 national elections to increase the participation of women.
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DanChurchAid's cooperation with Ethiopian Human Rights and Civic Education Promotion Association (EHRCEPA ) dates back to December 2004. EHRCEPA is concentrating its efforts on the realization of fundamental human rights, with a special focus on gender equality and the rights of women/girls to have influence over their own lives.
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Act International and Caritas Darfur: Armed militias have driven more than 55,000 people from their homes in South Darfur.
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DanChurchAid has selected Action for Development to implement a livelihood security and good governance project in Ethiopia from funds allocated from the 2005 Parish Collection.
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus/Development and Social Service Commission (EECMY/DASSC) is among the faith-based partners of DanChurchAid with a cooperation lasting more than 25 years.
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DanChurchAid is an associate member of Christian Relief and Development Association, the biggest NGO umbrella organisation in Ethiopia.
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Poverty Action Network Ethiopia (PANE) is one of the few networks in the country that involves civil society organisations in policy dialogue at national and lower levels, especially those relating to the country's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) and the Millenium Development Goals (MDG's).
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In Malawi these days, the story is about water - too little or too much of it - and the struggle with the effects of these two extremes.
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Research Center for Civic and Human Rights Education (RCCHE) focuses on the participation of poor people in social and political matters as an inalienable right to be fulfilled for democracy to come through.
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Flash floods in southern Malawi have displaced more than 40,000 people and killed one person when his car was washed away by the rising waters. DanChurchAid's partners in Malawi have already started the relief work.
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DanChurchAid in Zambia is working with other APRODEV sister organizations and is part of the ACT network and cooperation in Zambia. DanChurchAid is engaged in relevant relations with local as well as international NGOs and government stakeholders.
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Church of Uganda (CoU), a member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, has been working to address the immediate needs for food, shelter and other material items for people forced from their homes and living in makeshift camps in Soroti, Northern Uganda.
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AIDS is connected with silence and isolation throughout the world. Even in churches, the word on AIDS is often quieted down. It does not have to be like that! On December 1, DanChurchAid and partners in south and north focuses on the epidemic and its consequences.
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815 million people are starving according to UN’s annual report on hunger and malnutrition. “It is a disgrace and a scar on world's conscience”, General Secretary of DanChurchAid Henrik Stubkjær says. “We know it is possible to end hunger. We can afford it. And we know how to do it.”
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Uganda and Thailand are considered best practise cases in the fight against HIV/AIDS due to many years of sustained and broad efforts to prevent HIV infection and alleviate the negative social impact of AIDS.
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic has levelled of in Zambia. This is primarily assigned to the preventive activities with focus on behavioural change.
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