The Protection Capacity Standby Project (ProCap) and the Gender Capacity Standby Project (GenCap) are inter-agency resources to strengthen the humanitarian system’s capacity in protection and gender. The projects maintain rosters of senior experts deployed to countries in emergencies. The ProCap project has also developed a protection training for members of other surge capacity mechanisms. Both projects were initially designed as temporary stop-gap measures.

From the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Executive Summary

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate change will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable populations in the developing world. Rising temperatures, increasingly severe floods and droughts, and sea-level rise threaten economies that are reliant on agriculture, in countries whose governments lack adaptive capacity, and in areas where populations have little access to healthcare and education.

Summary

Highlights:

Week 52 (26 Dec 2011-1 Jan 2012)

• 54 Typhoid case reported this week

• Mutoko Anthrax epicurv

Contents

A.General context

B.Epidemic prone diseases

C.Events of public health importance in the region

D.Completeness and timeliness of the national data

E.Acknowledgments

F. Annexes

1. Classification of events that may constitute a Public Event of International Concern

2. Standard case definitions

3. Alert/action epidemic thresholds

HARARE — An explosion hit the provincial office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF in the central city of Gweru, causing only material damage, state media reported on Thursday.

"We are still investigating the cause of the explosion" which occurred late Tuesday, police inspector Patrick Chademana told The Herald newspaper.

He said nobody was injured by the blast, which took place in the city of Gweru, 275 kilometres (170 miles) south of the capital Harare, and shattered the building's windows.

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The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council said female condom use remains low compared with that of male condoms despite active promotion by public health authorities, but competitive on African terms

Jonga Kandemiiri, Sandra Nyaira | Washington

The Adult Rape Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, says at least 16 percent of the victims in rape cases it handled in 2011 in connection with prosecution in the courts tested positive for HIV. The statistic only includes victims 16 years of age or older, it said.