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Feb 5, 2008 Africa: Dramatic Anti-Malaria Results
New anti-malaria interventions, when applied together, can have
dramatic results, according to a new World Health Organization
study. The study reported declines in cases in children under five
of 60% in Ethiopia, 64% in Rwanda, 29% in Zambia, and 13% in Ghana,
between the period 2000-2005 and the year 2007. The greater impact
in Ethiopia and Rwanda was clearly associated with massive
campaigns of free distribution of long-lasting insecticidal-treated
bednets.
Dec 21, 2005 Rwanda: Gift for Life
In Rwanda, as around the African continent, people's lives depend
not only on governments and on global policymaking, but most
directly on their own efforts and those of countless small
organizations that make it their business to provide help for
survival and finding new ways to rebuild lives and communities. One
such effort, focusing on genocide survivors in Rwanda living not
only with the aftermath of rape but also with HIV/AIDS, is Gift for
Life, a campaign initiated by African Rights in Rwanda.
Dec 21, 2005 Rwanda: "Peace Cannot Stay in Small Places"
"Peace cannot stay in small places," said Ndagijimama Abdon, an
elder Gacaca judge in Gisenyi, "it is good when peace reaches
everywhere." The Alternatives to Violence project of the Rwanda
Friends Peace House focuses on workshops for judges in the local
Gacaca process dealing with lower-level genocide perpetrators.
One key issue, as this participant told evaluators, is how such
small-scale projects can have a wider impact.
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