Hhohho and Manzini regions exceeded this with 45.9% and 41.1% respectively.
Hhohho region was first with 96.0% of their respondents giving the correct answer.
Manzini and Hhohho regions gave the highest number of correct responses with 81.2% and 79.3% respectively.
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The region of Hhohho in Swaziland is a remote region located next to the South African border.
Hhohho suffers from high rates of unemployment, low agricultural production, and insufficient water resources.
As a result, local people live in a state of chronic poverty and are forced to contend with high rates of disease, malnourishment, and infant mortality.
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The aerial spraying of marijuana fields with defoliants was stopped in 2002 because of budgetary constraints, and since then eradication efforts have been carried out by a small band of police inspectors.
According to a study by Swaziland's Council on Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Abuse, an estimated 70 percent of smallholder farmers in the Hhohho region grow marijuana to some extent, as a cash crop.
During a recent visit to the area, local farmers told IRIN that cultivating it was their best resource against grinding poverty.
Police in impoverished Swaziland say that despite dousing acres of towering plants with deadly insecticide, they are losing the war on marijuana to dirt-poor peasants bent on protecting their most lucrative crop.
According to Swaziland's Council Against Drug and Alcohol Abuse, some 70 percent of small farmers in the Hhohho region, where mountainous terrain makes growing maize tough, turn to marijuana -- or dagga as it is locally known.
Like thousands of other peasant farmers in Hhohho, a woman who identifies herself only as Khanyesile ekes out a living from 30 limp marijuana plants hidden in thick undergrowth behind her rickety shack.
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In 1992, 4 percent of antenatal clinic women tested in Hhohho were HIV positive as well as 4 percent of the women tested outside of Hhohho in Lubombo, Manzini, and Shiselweni.
In Hhohho, HIV prevalence among male STD clinic patients tested increased from 10 percent in 1992 to 53 percent in 1998.
Among female patients in Hhohho, HIV prevalence rose from 11 percent in 1992 to 47 percent in 1998.
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MBABANE, 4 Apr 2003 (IRIN) - Swaziland's mountainous northern Hhohho Region, one of Southern Africa's prime marijuana growing areas, is being targeted in a new strategy to convince farmers that now is the time to switch crops.
The Swaziland Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse estimates that 75 percent of small-landholder farmers in Hhohho's isolated mountain valleys grow marijuana.
But with the construction of Maguga Dam on the Komati River, which spurred the development of the Hhohho Region road system, once isolated farms are more accessible.
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Police in impoverished Swaziland say that despite dousing acres of towering plants with deadly insecticide, they are losing the war on dagga to dirt-poor peasants bent on protecting their most lucrative crop.
A handful of drug lords buy and sell Swaziland's marijuana - the world's most popular illegal drug - but most of the growing is done by subsistence farmers desperate for cash after four years of drought and hefty job cuts.
Like thousands of other peasant farmers in Hhohho, a woman who identifies herself only as Khanyesile ekes out a living from 30 limp dagga plants hidden in thick undergrowth behind her rickety shack.
He lives in the mountainous northern Hhohho region, where ample rainfall and a network of flowing rivers make the lush area vastly different to the drought-affected south and east.
There has been no need for relief organisations to set up general food distribution points in Hhohho, as they have in the parched regions where over a quarter of the nation's population live.
But poverty is rampant in the Hhohho region, and Simelane's two grandchildren receive breakfast and a hot lunch at their primary school, through a school-feeding programme initiated by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme.
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The high mountains and narrow canyons of Hhohho - now being targeted by government for highway and other electrical infrastructure improvement after decades of neglect - have isolated it from the rest of Swaziland.
Last year, it was Hhohho - where up to 70 percent of small landholder farms illegally cultivate marijuana to be sold in South Africa and the Netherlands - which spawned the sensational court case of rapist Jasper Nxumalo.
Nxumalo defended himself against charges of raping his nine year-old daughter by saying the Bible sanctioned his "family's tradition" of the headman bedding a daughter to achieve a male heir.
Located in Hhohho District, Lobamba lies in the Ezulwini valley, 16...
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Data was collected by reviewing birth registers in the four regional hospitals of Swaziland situated in Hhohho, Manzini, Lubombo and Shiselweni regions.
The data was used to establish the relationship between parity and mothers age with stillbirth, birth weight and maternal complications.
These hospitals are located, respectively, in the Hhohho, Manzini, Shiselweni and Lubombo regions.
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The Extension Service for the Hhohho Region is headed by an acting Senior Extension Officer (Mr.
The mandate of the Hhohho Region's Extension Service has a mandate to assist all farmers and rural dwellers within the Region in their farming activities.
The sessions are pre-planned by all the stakeholders and compiled into an 'annual extension work plan'.
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A handful of drug lords buy and sell Swaziland’s marijuana — the world’s most popular illegal drug — but most of the growing is done by subsistence farmers desperate for cash after four years of drought and hefty job cuts.
According to Swaziland’s Council Against Drug and Alcohol Abuse, some 70 per cent of small farmers in the Hhohho region, where mountainous terrain makes growing maize tough, turn to marijuana - or dagga as it is locally known.
Like thousands of other peasant farmers in Hhohho, a woman who identifies herself only as Ms Khanyesile ekes out a living from 30 limp marijuana plants hidden in thick undergrowth behind her rickety shack.
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The NERCHA project sites visited were the Mvuma and Nkamazi Chiefdoms situated in the Hhohho region in the Middleveld Food Economy Zone in northern Swaziland.
According to the 2002 antenatal clinic survey, Hhohho Region has an HIV prevalence rate of 36.7 percent, which is one of the highest rates recorded globally, although slightly lower than the Swaziland national average of 38.6 percent.
The National Emergency Response Council on HIV/ AIDS (NERCHA) was first established as a Committee in December 2001 and changed to a statutory Council by an Act of Parliament (see NERCHA Act No. 8 of 2003).
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Tuesday November 1: Amanda Loyd, student volunteer working with the Allens in the Hhohho Region will be ministering in the Shiselweni Region this week with the Myers (Nov. 1-5).
Friday November 18: Pray for wisdom and sensitivity as Steven Allen assists one of the churches in the Hhohho Region through a difficult situation with the pastor and other church leaders.
Monday November 28: Plans are being made for a special regional (Hhohho) event on December 9th-10th led by Amanda Loyd, student volunteer working with the Allens.
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According to Swaziland's Council Against Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 70% of farmers in the Hhohho region are growing dagga for the domestic and international market.
But a Hhohho women named Khanyesile provided a more direct reason.
As Reuters put it, her non-dagga earnings consisted of "a patchy income selling shiny stones to tourists at the side of the road."
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He has stopped drinking alcohol the way people do here.”
MBABANE — Some community members from the Hhohho region have suggested that government should have regional budget allocations because Swazis in the rural areas also pay tax.
This was highlighted during a Budget Processes Meeting hosted by the Coordinating Assembly of Non-Governmental Organisations (CANGO) at the Lutheran Development Services centre at Ngonini last week.