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/ 12 April 2007

Africa ‘a real health catastrophe’

Africa has a shortage of about one million health workers, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said in Johannesburg on Thursday on the margins of an African health ministers’ conference. ”Africa is a real catastrophe,” the executive director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance told reporters

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/ 10 April 2007

How Africa can do better on health

Africa needs to become more self-reliant to improve the health of its people, the chairperson of the African Union’s commission said in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Professor Alpha Konare said African countries have to make sure they get better prices for their raw materials and stop the wars that prevent health strategies from being carried out.

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/ 20 February 2007

Boost for Gauteng housing development

More than 297 000 people will benefit from housing projects in Gauteng in the next financial year, provincial minister of housing Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday. The 58 552 houses to be built will include give-away, financed and rental houses, Mokonyane said in elaborating on Premier Mbhazima Shilowa’s state of the province address.