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Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 580 20
May 2011
To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
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1. KENYA: For want of a mask - how TB targets health
workers<#1300d092b4b31538_1>
2. UGANDA: MP to persevere with anti-homosexuality bill<#1300d092b4b31538_2>
3. KENYA-SOMALIA: Endless stream of refugees <#1300d092b4b31538_3>
4. KENYA: Protest as government grapples with HIV funding
shortages<#1300d092b4b31538_4>
5. HORN OF AFRICA: Food insecurity grips region <#1300d092b4b31538_5>
6. AID POLICY: Blame game influences charitable giving <#1300d092b4b31538_6>
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***KENYA: For want of a mask - how TB targets health
workers<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92736>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 17 May 2011 (IRIN) - Peter*, a lab technologist
at a government-run health facility in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, recently
took the last dose of his six-month course of tuberculosis medicine; he is
fairly sure he contracted the disease at work.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92736>
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***UGANDA: MP to persevere with anti-homosexuality
bill<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92739>
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[image: lead photo]KAMPALA, 17 May 2011 (PlusNews) - Uganda's
Anti-Homosexuality Bill and HIV Prevention and Control Bill are likely to be
carried over to the new session of parliament, despite international and
local pressure.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92739>
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***KENYA-SOMALIA: Endless stream of
refugees<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92740>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 17 May 2011 (IRIN) - Facilities in refugee camps
in northeastern Kenya have been stretched to the limit, aid workers say, as
more and more Somali refugees flee the conflict at home.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92740>
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***KENYA: Protest as government grapples with HIV funding
shortages<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92750>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 18 May 2011 (PlusNews) - Hundreds of Kenyan AIDS
activists held a protest on 18 May in the capital, Nairobi to demand that
the government meet its commitment to increase annual health and HIV
funding.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92750>
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***HORN OF AFRICA: Food insecurity grips
region<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92752>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 18 May 2011 (IRIN) - The number of people
requiring humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa could increase
sharply in coming months due to below-average rainfall and high food and
fuel prices, say aid workers.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92752>
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***AID POLICY: Blame game influences charitable
giving<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92756>
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[image: lead photo]BANGKOK, 19 May 2011 (IRIN) - Why has Save the Children's
US$40 million global appeal for conflict-affected Côte d'Ivoire only brought
in $225,000, when its campaign for those affected by the earthquake and
tsunami in Japan raised $25 million, exceeding the $20 million target? It
could be that individual donors are placing blame, new research says.
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92756>
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