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Meet Kami, Takalani
Sesame's HIV positive muppet
Winner of the
NSTF Award for Science
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This month the focus is GM, traditional
knowledge, sustainability, fertility, climate change and more. Visit Jobs
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This Month's Features
GM Food - why
the frenzy?
"Food is personal... it touches our lives three times a
day and if anyone is seen to be messing with your food, it will lead
to scaremongery and hysteria".
 Tiny
treasures of the deep
Seahorses, a threatened fish - not just the stuff of children's
stories and mythological tales - but very much as real as the threats
they face.
 Climate
Change
The links
between climatic driving mechanisms, properties of rainfall
and river flow. "Some confirmations, some new insights, and some surprises."
Hope for
Hepatitis Sufferers
 Hepatitis
B counts for 1,2 million deaths annually and current treatments are
ineffective. South
Africa scientists discuss new treatment hopes in the pipeline.
Focus: Traditional Knowledge
 Medicinal
plants to the rescue: The Ancient and Modern Worlds Unite to Fight HIV/AIDS in
Tanga, Tanzania
Medicinal
plants - an outline
of the basic requirements for small scale, sustainable cultivation and processing
techniques for rural communities.
Towards a common law concerning the protection of traditional knowledge. Focus
on biopiracy at the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Insight
Basic
or applied sciences?
Scientists from the Centre for High Energy Physics
argue that basic sciences should take as high a priority as the
applied sciences in developing countries.
Falling
fertility
The level of fertility among South African women is decreasing - with women
having fewer children and spacing them further apart.
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SUMMIT FOCUS
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Final updates
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Cell-life
project set to revolutionise management of anti-retroviral treatment
Worried
About Air Pollution? Put Some Water In Your Fuel Tank!
Mathematician's breakthrough
formula for generating prime numbers of quite a respectable size.
Forget
about what the builder says about that wall - get the "concrete"
facts from a scientist - DIY science.
Vanishing
Reefs? Entrepreneur proposes artificial reefs from recycled plastic.
Harvesting nature's bounty wisely - 'Serial overfishing' depletes species
Avian cholera kills birds -
a bacterial disease which strikes stressed birds.
Organisation of
the month - National institute for Communicable Diseases
International Forum to
discuss link between
environment and human health.
HIV/AIDS
EARTH SUMMIT:
HIV/AIDS and sustainable development.
KENYA:
Focus on lack of access to HIV/AIDS drugs
MALAWI:
Focus on impact of poverty, AIDS on schooling
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