Mental
health "blind spot" limits MSM HIV interventions
KATHMANDU,
5 August 2013 (IRIN) - Gaps in mental health care for men who have sex with men
(MSM), a population disproportionately affected globally by HIV, are limiting
effective treatment and care for both HIV and mental illness, experts say. Read
report online
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Risk-taking, innovation key to future humanitarian
work
DAKAR,
6 August 2013 (IRIN) - Rapid change has always marked the humanitarian
enterprise, but the pace of change feels like it has accelerated, partly driven
by technological innovations which are beginning to transform response and are
enabling new actors - from graphic designers to chaos scientists - to jump in
and respond. To navigate this complex, dynamic environment, humanitarians must
"take risks, collaborate, innovate, do better over-the-horizon-analysis and
anticipation," said Allegra Baiocchi, head of the UN Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in West Africa. Read
report online
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Refugee
shelter for the future
JOHANNESBURG,
5 August 2013 (IRIN) - Tents have long played an essential role in the emergency
phase of humanitarian responses to refugee influxes. They are relatively light
and cheap, and they can be stockpiled, flown in and erected in a short
timeframe. But as anyone who has slept in one can attest, tents also have major
shortcomings - they provide minimal protection from climatic extremes, offer
little space or comfort, and deteriorate quickly. Read
report online
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Analysis: Mali's aid problem
BAMAKO,
5 August 2013 (IRIN) - There is little discernible economic infrastructure on
the 635km drive from Mali's capital, Bamako, to the central town of Mopti,
except for speed bumps and checkpoints where local vendors congregate to target
vehicles as they slow. Rusted signs and faded banners from international donors
dot the scrubland, advertising development projects either long abandoned or
never undertaken. Read
report online
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Analysis: HIV and emergencies - the data
quandary
KATHMANDU,
7 August 2013 (IRIN) - More information about groups vulnerable to HIV infection
during emergencies - including those labelled "most at-risk populations" (MARPs)
- is needed to improve humanitarian HIV programming, experts say. Read
report online
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Curbing
deadly bovine disease faces hurdles in Sahel
DAKAR,
8 August 2013 (IRIN) - Long eradicated in developed countries, contagious bovine
pleuropneumonia (CBPP) - a highly infectious respiratory disease - remains a
huge threat to cattle production in the Sahel and West Africa, where
cross-border migration by pastoralists is customary. Read
report online
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Getting
it right in post-conflict Mali
BAMAKO/MOPTI,
9 August 2013 (IRIN) - Billions of dollars of foreign aid are poised for release
following Mali's successful transition to a democratically elected president.
But before donors turn on the aid spigot, they should reconsider how aid is
channelled in Mali, to mitigate the misappropriation of funds that exacerbated
the conflict in the first place. Read
report online
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