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President Museveni has received considerable praise for his willingness to confront AIDS from the time that the NRM took power in 1986. This openness, including encouraging a wide variety of government bodies and non- governmental organizations (NC Os) to address HIV prevention in a variety of ways, is credited, in part, with reducing national HIV prevalence from about 15% to 6% during the 1990s; other factors include the high level of deaths from AIDS and increasing girls' education (Schoepf, ROAPE 98, 2003). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SADC stock exchanges have resolved to concentrate on loose cooperation after clarifying the sticky issues that seemed to slow down progress towards an integrated real-time network of the region's national bourses by 2006. The capital market is one area where integration is yet to be realized and the chiefs of the region's bourses are in the process of building closer collaboration, which will eventually lead to integration of stock exchanges in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A framework for selecting and evaluating indicators of bioenergy sustainability is presented. This framework is designed to facilitate decision-making about which indicators are useful for assessing sustainability of bioenergy systems and supporting their deployment. Efforts to develop sustainability indicators in the United States and Europe are reviewed. The first steps of the framework for indicator selection are defining the sustainability goals and other goals for a bioenergy project or program, gaining an understanding of the context, and identifying the values of stakeholders. From the goals, context, and stakeholders, the objectives for analysis and criteria for indicator selection can be developed. The user of the framework identifies and ranks indicators, applies them in an assessment, and then evaluates their effectiveness, while identifying gaps that prevent goals from being met, assessing lessons learned, and moving toward best practices. The framework approach emphasizes that the selection of appropriate criteria and indicators is driven by the specific purpose of an analysis. Realistic goals and measures of bioenergy sustainability can be developed systematically with the help of the framework presented here. © 2015 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]