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An outbreak of dengue fever in India this autumn affected more than 30,000 people in October alone. But fumigation and a cannibal-inclined mosquito may help halt the spread of the disease
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As the COP18 Doha climate talks begin, Oxfam and IIED warn that Green Climate Fund risks being left 'as an empty shell'
Wealthy countries have not only failed to provide cash to help poor people adapt to climate change, but much of what they have agreed to give so far has come out of existing aid budgets or in the form of loans that will need to be repaid, new research by two international agencies shows.
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Despite the trappings of wealth in the capital, further afield it is evident that the world's newest nation is running on empty
A new country isn't a new toy. It isn't a new computer that you unwrap from its box, all shiny and modern and clean. You don't plug it into the wall, switch it on and live happily ever after. A new country, almost by definition these days given the long-established hierarchy of states, means quite the opposite: it means that something, somewhere, has gone very badly wrong. A new country is a damaged country, a broken country, a country that is starting again from scratch.
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By letting doctors record patients' symptoms with a single click, ClickClinica provides real-time global disease surveillance
There are more than half a million apps at the iPhone App store, and few human interests are uncatered for. You can download books, have a tour of the stars, and lob exploding birds at hunkered-down pigs.
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Radios, local doctors and techniques to help underweight newborns are saving the lives of women and children in Burundi
The youngest of Chantalle Bukuru's six children does not have a name yet, but the 17-day-old girl certainly has attitude as her fists swat the air, her eyes wide and alert. Bukuru, 27, gave birth by caesarean section in the CMCK clinic in Bujumbura, the steamy, hill-ringed, bicycle-filled capital of Burundi, in eastern Africa.
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From a stallholder earning up to £16 profit a day selling fish, to a farmer buying more land, a village finance scheme is giving Ghanaian women the chance to fulfil their ambitions
It's 4am and the pungent smell of fish permeates the air in the Ghanaian village of Dabala, as Patience Diaba, 36, smokes her produce over an open fire. Six hours later, she carts the tilapia fish to market.
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In Uganda, only 38% of midwives are fully qualified, leaving the majority ill-equipped to deal with complicated births. But a pioneering project is using online study to fill the training gap
Grace Aguti gives one final push. She leans back exhausted on the plastic mattress and listens for her baby's cry, but there is only silence. Her eyes flash with panic as she looks down and sees the umbilical cord wrapped tightly around her baby's neck, its tiny body slowly turning blue.
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High unemployment and poverty in South African townships is causing despairing young men to turn to alcohol and drugs, and sexual violence is widespread. But there are signs of change
Sitting in a room with cardboard boxes of condoms stacked in one corner, a group of teenagers debates poverty, gender violence and the role of men.
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UN peacekeepers will withdraw from Timor-Leste later in 2012 and women are playing a lead role in the country after independence - as well as changing attitudes to domestic abuse
It's not quite light when Rosa dos Santos wakes in the village of Estada, three hours inland from Timor-Leste's capital, Dili. Bending to sweep the red dust from the doorway of her home walled with palm leaves, she straps her baby granddaughter to her chest and sets off for the river. By the time she returns with the day's water, the smell of wood smoke and the chatter of children signal the start of a new day. Anyone fit enough to farm is already off digging sweet potatoes from the surrounding mountainsides, while the old, the sick and the young are left at home.
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The local Village Savings and Loans Association is turning the residents of Soroti, in eastern Uganda, into savers and entrepreneurs who no longer have to rely on the support of outside organisations
"Why should I again begin begging for support from the outside?" asks Phoebe Ageo, throwing her hands up dismissively, as she sits up straight in the middle of her farm compound in Soroti, eastern Uganda. "I don't believe in asking for money. The best word for this is 'begging'."
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