HIV-positive patients have lower levels of a protein associated with bone density, according to a small Brazilian study.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader on Wednesday called on President Robert Mugabe to step down, echoing a similar call made recently by the US government.
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The World Food Programme on Wednesday launched an urgent appeal for -million’s worth of food aid — in cash or kind — for six countries in southern Africa.
The repeated rape of a 15-year-old boy by an adult in a Mpumalanga police station holding cell has provoked an outcry from opposition parties, including a demand for a proper investigation of the incident.
The main opposition party in Zimbabwe is to send senior members to South Africa and Mozambique to urge international leaders to put pressure on President Robert Mugabe’s government to engage in talks, an official said on Wednesday.
Unscrupulous employment agencies will be brought to book with draft legislation published in the Government Gazette this week, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said on Wednesday.
Though frustrated by strident opposition to its campaign to overturn a 17-year international ban on commercial whaling, Japan should remain a member of the global whaling commission, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday.
Australia’s states and territories approved a plan on Wednesday to set up a national register of child sex offenders, despite fears the listing could spark vigilante attacks on suspected paedophiles.
About 340 cases of corruption had been identified in the Eastern Cape since a joint task team was established to tackle this scourge, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Tuesday.
The Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers made an unusually enthusiastic public display of faith in the peace process yesterday before wrangling in private over Israel’s demand that Hamas should be disarmed.