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AfricaFocus Bulletin
Country-focused Bulletins
May 20, 2008 South Africa: Migrants under Attack
"Xenophobia is rife in South Africa. However, repression of
immigrants, refugees and undocumented people goes beyond naked
violence in poor communities. Earlier this year, police raided the
Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, beating up and arresting
immigrants, mainly from Zimbabwe. The state systematically abuses
the rights of immigrants: health workers deny treatment, home
affairs officials demand bribes and police assault immigrants
regularly." - Treatment Action Campaign
Apr 28, 2008 South Africa: Women, AIDS, and Violence, 2
"In the Southern African region the results of a large scale
household survey conducted in eight countries showed that nearly
a fifth of the women interviewed reported being a victim of
partner physical violence in the preceding year. ... South African
based-studies have found that women who experience intimate
partner violence are at long-term increased risk of HIV infection,
particularly where their partners were involved in multiple
concurrent, unprotected sexual relationships." - Amnesty
International
Apr 28, 2008 South Africa: Women, AIDS, and Violence, 1
"Despite gradual improvements in the government's response to the
HIV epidemic and the adoption of a widely-welcomed five-year plan,
five and a half million South Africans are HIV-infected - one of
the highest numbers in any country in the world. Fifty-five percent
of them are women. South African women under 25 are three to four
times more likely to be HIV-infected than men in the same age
group. ... the level of new HIV infections amongst women in South
Africa continues to increase, while overall incidence of the
disease has levelled off." - Amnesty International
Nov 25, 2007 South Africa: & India & Brazil
Oct 30, 2007 South Africa: RIP Lucky Dube
Aug 14, 2007 South Africa: AIDS Action Relapse
Dec 22, 2006 South Africa: Water for All?
Feb 16, 2006 South Africa: New AIDS Statistics
Jun 11, 2005 South Africa: AIDS Treatment Update
Feb 22, 2005 South Africa: Mortality Statistics, AIDS Action
Nov 29, 2004 South Africa: Poverty Debate
Aug 19 2004 South Africa: Apartheid Reparations Update
Aug 9, 2004 South Africa: AIDS Treatment Update
Nov 23, 2003 South Africa: AIDS Treatment Green Light
Recent Bulletins on Continent-Wide Issues
Jul 1, 2008 Africa: Debt, Unfinished Business
Jun 22, 2008 Africa: AfricaFocus Web Updates
Jun 17, 2008 Africa: Environmental Atlas
May 17, 2008 Africa: Telecoms Acceleration
May 11, 2008 Africa: Commodity Dependence
May 11, 2008 Africa: UN Conference on Trade and Development
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Africa Policy E-Journal (2000-2003)
2003-08-08 South Africa: AIDS Treatment Breakthrough
2003-05-09 South Africa: AIDS Denialism Speech
2003-04-15 South Africa: Treatment Action Update
2003-03-24 South Africa: AIDS Treatment Action
2003-02-24 South Africa: Apartheid Reparations Update
2002-11-12 South Africa: Apartheid Debt & Reparations, 2
2002-11-12 South Africa: Apartheid Debt & Reparations, 1
2001-11-06 South Africa: Tutu on War and Poverty
2001-10-16 South Africa: AIDS Mortality Report
2001-06-19 South Africa: World Bank Bond Boycott
2001-04-03 South Africa: Sexual Violence in Schools
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