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NEWS ABOUT: Zambia

Zambia stories: 7 news summaries

 US Doctors Look to Africa 
 for Lower-Cost Treatments 

Developing nations offer cheap, effective solutions for health care

Jul 2, 09 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - When an AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama wanted to boost the number of patients who returned for treatment, they didn't look to programs in the rich West for ideas. They went to Zambia, where strategies for treating patients with HIV have succeeded despite widespread poverty. With US health... More »

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health care costs • AIDS • HIV • doctor • medical treatment • University of Alabama • Zambia • developing countries • HIV/AIDS • women's issues

 Watershed Vaccine 
 May End Malaria Toll 

If trials work as expected, shots could save millions of children

Dec 9, 08 1:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have developed a promising vaccine against malaria, a devastating disease that kills a milion people a year, most of them young children. Trials of the breakthrough vaccine enter the final phase next year and it could be widely available by 2012, reports the Los Angeles Times. Successful trials have... More »

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Kenya • medical breakthrough • malaria • Ethiopia • GlaxoSmithKline • Tanzania • vaccine • mosquito • Zambia • World Health Organization • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • Rwanda • RTS,S • PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

Zambia Denies Reports That Prez Is Dead

'Responding well;' Mugabe critic collapsed ahead of AU summit

Jul 3, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa is resting comfortably in a Paris hospital, said a government spokesman today, denying "malicious" widespread reports that the leader had died after suffering his second stroke in 2 years ahead of an African Union summit. Mwanawasa "is responding well to treatment. He has made... More »

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Africa • Robert Mugabe • Southern Africa • Paris • Zambia • South African Development Community • Levy Mwanawasa

 Africa Braces for
 Zimbabwe Refugees 

With Mugabe looking ready to hold on to power at all costs, exodus is expected

Jun 21, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Zimbabwe's neighbors are preparing for a flood of refugees after next week's election, the London Times reports. About 3 million have already fled Robert Mugabe's regime to South Africa, Zambia, and Botswana. As it becomes increasingly clear that Mugabe will not give up power even if he loses the election,... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • Mozambique • South Africa • Zambia • refugee • Botswana • Movement for Democratic Change • Zimbabwe elections • Zanu-PF

 Zimbabwe Arms Ship
 Heads Back to China 

South African dock workers refuse to unload Chinese tanker

Apr 24, 08 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese ship with a cargo of arms and ammunition bound for Zimbabwe will indeed head back to China, the Chinese foreign ministry confirmed today, after Zimbabwe's neighbors refused to let the vessel dock. The decision is a victory for the coalition of trade unionists, religious leaders, and Western diplomats... More »

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China • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • South Africa • arms • Zambia • arms exports • Levy Mwanawasa

China's Africa Aid Has a Price

Manufacturing suffers on the continent as Asian imports flood
the market

Aug 21, 07 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - As China increases its economic investment in Africa, locals are finding that the benefits of increased trade with the East comes at a price. In the third of a series of articles in the New York Times, workers at a Zambian factory describe how Chinese imports have undercut their market... More »

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China • Africa • globalization • trade • Hu Jintao • Zambia

Chinese Seek Fortune in Africa

To satisfy country's thirst for oil, emigrants strike it rich out west

Aug 17, 07 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - A growing number of poor Chinese are flocking to Africa, hoping to cash in on the destitute continent’s infinite growth potential. China is building factories in eastern Africa, and trade between the two burgeoning economies ballooned to $55 billion last year. The eastern entrepreneurs are diving into every sector... More »

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China • Africa • oil • Chad • World Bank • Tanzania • trade • Chinese emigrants • Zambia • mineral resources

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