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<title>BUniverse: Videos tagged south africa </title>
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<title>Magic Numbers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:53:06 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For the past eight years, the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) has been collecting data, running it through algorithms that produce more data, then delivering it to the South African National Department of Health. HE2ROâ€™s information, empirical evidence of the effectiveness and cost of new and better ways to combat HIV/AIDS, is in some ways as instrumental among South African health policy makers as the new pharmaceuticals are for AIDS patients. Decision makers in both the National Department of Health and the Department of Treasury have used the data to frame an HIV program that treats almost two million people.]]></description>
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<title>A Better Way to Track TB</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:49:05 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In March 2011, South Africaâ€™s National Health Laboratory Service was considering replacing the method it uses to diagnose TB from â€œsmear microscopyâ€â€”looking for TB bacilli under a microscope, the way it has been done for nearly a centuryâ€”with a new technology recommended by the World Health Organization. For advice on the costs of such a switch, the service turned to researchers from the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), a collaboration between researchers from BUâ€™s Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD) and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The technology, called GeneXpert MTB/RIF, had two advantages over existing methodology: it found more TB, and it found it much faster.]]></description>
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<title>Magic Numbers (Excerpt)</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:33:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Center for Finance, Law &amp; Policy South Africa Rising with Ebrahim Rasool</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:59:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The South African Ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, discusses South Africaâ€™s role as Africaâ€™s leading economy and a model for diversified, sustainable emerging markets. 

This event was co-sponsored by the African Presidential Center, in cooperation with the African Studies Center, Global Development Policy Program, and Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.

Hosted by the BU Center for Finance, Law & Policy on February 17, 2012.]]></description>
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<title>The Strategic Implications of China&#039;s Growing Trading Partnership with Africa</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:16:06 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The South African Deputy Chief of Mission to the United States, Johnny Moloto, discusses opportunities for investment in Africa, and how China is capitalizing off of these opportunities.  

Hosted by the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, African Studies Program, Center for the Study of Asia, African Presidential Center, Global Development Program and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on March 29, 2012.]]></description>
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<title>Good News from Africa: Keynote Address</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:21:59 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The all-day conference Good News from Africa, part of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Africa 2060 research program, brings together leading experts on Africa to present critical assessments of the continentâ€™s current trends in social, cultural, political, and economic development in four discussion panels. Kaire Mbuende, the ambassador of Namibia to the United Nations, presents the keynote address. Mbuende discusses ten key factors that he says are fueling current African growth, including peace, stability, resources, investment in infrastructures, and most important, investment in people, including through education. 
	
Hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 16, 2010.]]></description>
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<title>African Presidential Roundtable 2005 Public Forum: Liz Walker</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:38:33 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sponsored by the African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC) at Boston University, former African heads of state from a broad spectrum of countries gather in South Africa and then in Boston for a panel discussion on a wide range of issues.

Hosted by African Presidential Archives and Research Center on April 12, 2005.]]></description>
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<title>isiXhosa Proverb 10 - &quot;Imbila Yaswela Umsila Ngokuyalezela.&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:09:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Part of the African Proverbs Project, by the African Studies Center at Boston University. For more information, see: http://www.bu.edu/africa/alp/african-proverbs-project/]]></description>
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<title>isiXhosa Proverb 8 - &quot;Intonga Entle Igawulwa Ezizweni.&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:07:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Part of the African Proverbs Project, by the African Studies Center at Boston University. For more information, see: http://www.bu.edu/africa/alp/african-proverbs-project/]]></description>
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<title>isiXhosa Proverb 7 - &quot;Isisu Somhambi Asingakanani Singaphambili Ngemva Ngumhlonzo.&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:05:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Part of the African Proverbs Project, by the African Studies Center at Boston University. For more information, see: http://www.bu.edu/africa/alp/african-proverbs-project/]]></description>
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