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/ 20 December 2005
India will gain nearly $6-billion in information technology investment over the next few years from just three United States companies, according to a report on the Science and Development Network website, <i>SciDev.Net</i>. But critics claim the computer world is drawing the country’s scientific talent away from other areas of research.
International agencies, public health experts and Aids activists have dismissed the Indian government’s claim of a massive drop in new HIV infections between 2003 and 2004 as incorrect and misleading, according to reports on the <i>Science and Development Network</i>. India ranks second only to South Africa, which has 5,3-million HIV infections.
The yellow spice turmeric has shown potential as a weapon against malaria, HIV and the virus that triggers cervical cancer, according to reports on <i>SciDev.Net</i>, the Science and Development Network website. The latest findings are of significance to developing countries where malaria and HIV are serious public health concerns.
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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.
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