Swaziland
Twin Boost for TB Treatment in Swazilandips.org | 08 Apr 2011The fight against tuberculosis in Swaziland will be reinforced on two fronts this month. A new tool for the quick and accurate diagnosis of TB will begin its roll out and a monthly stipend for treatment supporters will help ensure patients get through the lengthy and unpleasant course of TB drugs. Swaziland declared TB a national emergency on Mar. 24, World Tuberculosis Day. Swaziland has an estimated 11,000 TB patients, including 400 who have drug resistant strains of the disease.
Swaziland | Health and Environment | Planning and Management of Development | Research SWAZILAND: Where have the poor people gone?IRIN News | 14 Mar 2011There are fewer poor people in Swaziland today than a decade ago, according to data from a new household economic survey. The government has hailed the report as proof that its poverty-reduction efforts are working, but social welfare organizations say the real reason is the high death rate among the poor.
Swaziland | Food Security | Poverty Reduction Heavy Rains Welcome in the Mountain Kingdomips.org | 07 Feb 2011Theres nothing quite like the enthusiasm that rises from the earth when rains come at last to a drought-stricken region. While heavy rains have caused extensive flooding across Southern Africa, with fears of worse to come, in at least one corner of the region the community is gazing with joy at an overflowing dam. For 20 years, residents of Siphofaneni and surrounding areas in the eastern Lowveld area of Swaziland have survived on food rations for want of rain to grow their own crops.
Swaziland | Agriculture | Drought | Floods SOUTHERN AFRICA: Adapt or PerishInter Press Service | 07 Sep 2010A changing climate will prompt changes in behaviour across Southern Africa. And when it comes to adaptation, Swazi farmer Bongani Phakathi is a frustrated man a few steps ahead of his neighbours. "I dont allow cattle to graze in my field because livestock degrades the soil – not only by eating all the maize stalks and leaving the soil bare, but also by stamping on the ground," Phakathi told IPS.
Swaziland | Environmental Impacts | Farming Practices Swaziland: After Cyclone, Alien Seeds Cause Environmental ProblemsAllAfrica.com | 08 Jun 2010The effects of Cyclone Demonia are still being felt a quarter of a century after it ripped through landlocked Swaziland. The once-in-a-generation storm system swept in from the Indian Ocean and across neighbouring Mozambique, devastating infrastructure and sowing death among the Swazis, but its lasting legacy was the alien plant seeds that the winds carried.
Swaziland | Alien Species Swaziland: Low input funding means low yieldsIRIN News | 20 Aug 2008Erratic weather and a prolonged dry spell caused Swaziland to record its lowest ever maize harvest in April 2007; although the 2008 harvest was double the size, it is still not enough, and a lack of funds to meet the zooming price of inputs means people might have to go hungry again next year.
Swaziland | Agriculture | Food Security