Heterosexual men who are circumcised are less likely to contract HIV/Aids from their female partners, according to ground-breaking South African research. In 2002, the scientists recruited more than 3Â 000 uncircumcised heterosexual men aged 18 to 24 from Orange Farm, a Johannesburg slum where about 32% of women have HIV.
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/ 19 January 2005
Scientists in Nigeria have discounted warnings that the West African coastline risks a tsunami but stress the need to plan for other extreme events. Yevgeny Dolginov, a professor of geological studies at the Russian University for People’s Friendship said that African countries including Cameroon, Gabon and Nigeria were at risk.
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/ 19 December 2004
The introduction of genetically modified (GM) maize to Kenyan farmers is to be delayed, according to the <i>Science and Development Network</i>. The GM maize is now scheduled to make its debut in 2010, following revised safety regulations for the Insect-Resistant Maize for Africa project. The new regulations are focusing greater attention to potential threats that GM maize could pose to the environment.
Kenya has stepped to the forefront of African agricultural biotechnology with the inauguration of a ”level II biosafety greenhouse” in Nairobi that will allow containment of genetically modified crops at the experimental stage. Neighbouring Uganda also has a biotechnology laboratory, which is now carrying out tissue culture of bananas, coffee and other crops.
FOOD prices jumped 14% in the year to March, posing a crisis for poor South Africans who spent more than half their income on food, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has found