SOUTH AFRICA: IRIN-SA Weekly round-up 336 for 2 June - 8 June 2007
08 Jun 2007 17:27:18 GMT Source: IRIN
JOHANNESBURG , 8 June 2007 (IRIN) - AFRICA: UN appeals to G8 leaders for money to research climate change in Africa The United Nations' World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has
appealed to the Group of Eight (G8) leaders for money to help improve Africa's climate data collection. "Climate change is a global phenomenon; to make predictions and study its impact -
data from South Africa will be as important to Russia as would information from Mongolia for Kenya", Michel Jarraud, WMO secretary-general told IRIN. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72595MOZAMBIQUE: Dearth of medical skills exaggerate the plight of HIV-positive children When Dr Virginia José Albino leaves her post at a rural
health centre in Mozambique's central province of Zambezia, HIV/AIDS services at the clinic nearly grind to a halt.
Last month, Albino went to the provincial capital, Quelimane, for a week of
work-related meetings, and returned to a pile of new case files and the news that one of a handful of HIV-positive children on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment had died. "It was a child I had hopes
for", she said. "I don't know what happened". http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72596SOUTH AFRICA: Provincial border dispute threatens school for challenged children The protracted provincial border dispute between the government and residents of Khutsong, a township outside the mining town of Carletonville, has blocked the funding of a care centre for mentally
and physically challenged children. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72585SWAZILAND: Alien plants invading agricultural land Alien vegetation is preventing food production on
vast tracts of Swaziland's agricultural land, compounding the country's worst ever harvest, which has led to more than a third of the population requiring food aid. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72563ZIMBABWE: More than a third of Zimbabweans require food assistance Zimbabwe's poor harvest "due to adverse weather conditions"
and an economy wracked by hyperinflation will leave more than a third of the population requiring food assistance by early next year, a joint report released on Tuesday by the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72566MOZAMBIQUE: Children are last in line for HIV/AIDS treatment At
Quelimane hospital, in Mozambique's central province of Zambezia, paediatrician Maria João Soromenho encounters a sobbing young mother and her one year-old daughter. The baby is skeletal, no
bigger than a newborn, and shows few signs of life.
The medical staff suspect the child is HIV-positive and suggest to the mother that she takes a blood test, but she wants to leave the hospital and
take the child with her.http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72534NAMIBIA: Most rape victims know the rapist Two thirds of rape and attempted rape victims in Namibia know their
perpetrators, a report released ahead of this month's national conference on violence against women and children said. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72535
