Reports

NEWS: UNITED NATIONS: Launch of global AIDS fund a key issue at G8 Summit The creation of a global fund to fight AIDS and other infectious diseases will be the key subject of an address by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to…

NAIROBI, 17 July (IRIN) - Stephen Lewis, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special envoy on AIDS in Africa, on Monday met President Daniel arap Moi in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to address Annan's proposed Global AIDS and Health Fund and…

NEWS SOUTH AFRICA: Trials show antiretroviral therapy can benefit the poor According to a 'Sunday Independent' report, clinical trials conducted in Johannesburg and Cape Town have shown that despite poverty and scarce clinical resources, antiretrovirals can be used successfully by poor people.…

TANZANIA: HIV/AIDS could wipe out economic, social gains Poverty-reduction measures have not yet succeeded in reaching the rural poor to improve their quality of life, while the HIV/AIDS pandemic posed such a threat that it could reverse all the economic and…

OVERVIEW Predictions of a poor rain-fed harvest in four regions in Southern Somalia have prompted an intensification of surveillance activities in those regions. In Gedo and in some parts of Bay and Bakool, levels of malnutrition have…

KENYA: Drought and food insecurity "far from over" Over three million Kenyans continue to depend on emergency food aid as the north and east of the country enter a fourth year of drought. Paul Rossiter, regional livestock coordinator for the UN…

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The death toll from the cholera outbreak reported in the northern Kenya district of Wajir has reached 17 following the deaths Wednesday of five more people. Health officials in Wajir town, the administrative capital of the…

UGANDA: High fertility rate raises concern The fertility and population growth rates in Uganda are among the highest in the world, according to a new survey by Uganda's Population Secretariat (POPSEC). The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for 2000 indicated…

KENYA: Food shipment to help school feeding programme WFP on Monday welcomed the arrival in Mombasa port of a 54,000 mt shipment of maize, valued at US $24 million, as part of a substantial donation by the US government towards…

HIGHLIGHTS MIXED FOOD SECURITY OUTLOOK MORE FUNDS NEEDED FOR UNIMIX CHOLERA SPREADS IN WAJIR BACKGROUND June was an interesting month within Kenya with newspapers focusing on a variety of controversial subjects - not least the shock of President Moi's government reshuffle which placed opposition…