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Global Poverty Requires Action Not Rhetoric
eGov Monitor | International Development 07 10 2008 Massive suffering of people in a world of plenty is a damning indictment of a political class that, for all its rhetoric, simply does not care enough to take the action needed to abolish global poverty says the author.

TOGO: School year reopens with free primary schools
UN | Irin Africa | News 06 10 2008 LOME, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - For the first time in recent years, primary school students started a new school year on 6 October in Togo without paying enrolment fees. The government has waived primary school fees as part of a more than US$80 million investment in the education system. While parents celebrated the extra fees they will not have to pay for primary school students, administrators are taken aback by the surprise announcement worry how they will pay for school operations the fees had helped fund.

SOUTH AFRICA: Rapid HIV tests not infallible
UN | Irin Africa | News 06 10 2008 JOHANNESBURG, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - The reliability of HIV diagnoses obtained from finger prick tests has come into question with the recall of a brand of rapid HIV test kits used at public testing sites in two South African provinces.

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