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Uganda: UN Health Agency Working With Authorities to Combat Marburg Outbreak
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[UN News]The United Nations health agency is working with the Government of Uganda to control an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever in the African country's western district of Kabale.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Loses N78 Billion to India On Medical TourismEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Trust]Nigeria loses more than $500 million (N78 billion) on account of medical tourism annually, half of the entire loss to India alone, says the Nigeria Medical Association.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Kenya: Cattle in the Capital - Urban Agriculture Comes to TownEmail this article to a colleague.
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[allAfrica]Dagoretti -Leonard Gichuru Gitau is a city dweller, but it doesn't take a detective to see that he is also a livestock farmer. The lowing of cattle greets visitors to his neatly built home of timber and sheet metal on the western outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, as the scent of manure hangs in the air.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Cattle in the Capital - Urban Agriculture Comes to KenyaEmail this article to a colleague.
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[allAfrica]Dagoretti -Leonard Gichuru Gitau is a city dweller, but it doesn't take a detective to see that he is also a livestock farmer. The lowing of cattle greets visitors to his neatly built home of timber and sheet metal on the western outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, as the scent of manure hangs in the air.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Infectious Diseases Account for 63 Percent of Deaths in THE Continent - WHO OfficialEmail this article to a colleague.
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[ANGOP]Luanda -Communicable diseases account for 63 percent of deaths in the African region, with emphasis on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, said Monday in Luanda the regional director of the World Health Organization for Africa, Luis Gomes Sambo.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Angola: Shortage in Human Resources Hinders Health ReformEmail this article to a colleague.
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[ANGOP]LUanda -The shortage in human resources is among the factors hindering the reform process of health care in sub-Saharan Africa, said the director of the World Health Organization for Africa, Luis Gomes Sambo.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Soccer Icons, Heads of State Join Malaria WarEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily News]AHEAD of the official draw for the 2013 Orange Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), African football stars and heads of state have joined United Against Malaria, pledging to distribute life-saving malaria prevention and treatment messages throughout the tournament.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
African Ministers Pledge to Speed Access to Life-Saving Commodities for All Women and Children - 16 October 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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ABUJA, Nigeria – At the ministerial meeting of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, health ministers from seven African countries committed to speed-up access to and use of 13 life-saving commodities to all women and children in their countries by 2015. The meeting, hosted by the Government of Nigeria with the support of the Commission Secretariat, UNFPA and UNICEF, was a culmination of efforts by countries and the global community to address a key constraint to improving lives of women and children all over the world: limited access to life-savings commodities.
Source: UNFPA News - October 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Uganda: I Lost My Uterus to FibroidsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[New Vision]It started like a small pain in the stomach, which I took for granted and thought it would disappear with time. But little did I know that I would be hit by a disaster that would make me childless for the rest of my life, laments Hadijah Namuyomba.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tanzania: Pharmaceutical Industry to Construct Modern FactoryEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily News]THE Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industries (TPI) is constructing a state-of-the-art factory in Arusha at the cost of 5 million Euros that will, among other things, triple production and double employment.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
UN food agency warns North Africa of locust threat, seeks funding help to control swarmsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Desert locust swarms are set to invade North Africa in the coming weeks, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today, as it highlighted ongoing efforts to raise almost $6 million still needed to cover regional control costs for the rest of the year.
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - October 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Kenya: HIV Activists Want Sections of HIV Control Act Repealed Citing DiscriminationEmail this article to a colleague.
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[The Star]Some sections in the HIV prevention and control act are promoting discrimination against people living with HIV. HIV activist Nelson Otwoma says those sections should be repealed.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Rwanda: Four Districts Put On High Risk Marburg AlertEmail this article to a colleague.
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[New Times]Musanze, Gicumbi, Nyagatare and Burera districts that border Uganda are on high alert over the Marburg hemorrhagic fever.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Kenya: Poor Women Not Practising Family PlanningEmail this article to a colleague.
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[The Star]Poor women are giving birth to many children because family planning services are unaffordable. A reproductive health division study shows that most poor people in rural and urban areas don't use family planning. Ann Njeru from the division says many of these women continue to give birth as a result.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Making transport a driver for development in AfricaEmail this article to a colleague.
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(University of York) A new report by a panel of international experts highlights policies to improve air quality road safety and congestion, supporting African development.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 23, 2012 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Provider-initiated HIV testing does not affect clients' rightsEmail this article to a colleague.
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(Public Library of Science) A new study reported in this week's PLOS Medicine reports findings from a study carried out in four African countries by Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer and colleagues on approaches towards expanding testing and counseling for HIV. Provider-initiated HIV testing has the potential to expand access to treatment and prevention services, but there have been concerns as to whether consent practices, client confidentiality, and the referral to care will be acceptable under provider-initiated testing modes.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - October 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Local wildlife is important in human dietsEmail this article to a colleague.
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(American Society of Animal Science) Animals like antelope, frogs and rodents may be tricky to catch, but they provide protein in places where traditional livestock are scarce. According to the authors of a new paper in Animal Frontiers, meat from wild animals is increasingly important in central Africa.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Migratory birds can spread haemorrhagic feverEmail this article to a colleague.
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(Uppsala University) A type of haemorrhagic fever that is prevalent in Africa, Asia, and the Balkans has begun to spread to new areas in southern Europe. Now Swedish researchers have shown that migratory birds carrying ticks are the possible source of contagion. The discovery is being published in the US journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa measured by researchersEmail this article to a colleague.
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While a new study shows the risk of human conflict in East Africa increases somewhat with hotter temperatures and drops a bit with higher precipitation, it concludes that socioeconomic, political and geographic factors play a much more substantial role than climate change.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 22, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news
Fuller picture of human expansion from AfricaEmail this article to a colleague.
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A comprehensive analysis of the anthropological and genetic history of humans' expansion out of Africa could lead to medical advances.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 22, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news
For African beetles, dung balls double as 'air conditioning units'Email this article to a colleague.
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Some African dung beetles roll their feasts of dung away to avoid the hordes of other hungry bugs at the pile. But now researchers have discovered that the beetles also use the balls in another, rather clever way: The moist balls keep the bugs cool even as they push a weight up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies across the scorching sand.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 22, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news
Beetles use dung balls to stay coolEmail this article to a colleague.
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Dung beetles roll their feasts of dung away to avoid the hoards of other hungry competitors at the dung pile. But now a team of researchers from South Africa and Sweden have discovered that they also use their balls in another, rather clever way. The moist balls keep the beetles cool even as they push a weight up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies across the hot sand.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 22, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news
Ghana: President Mahama Slams NPP Healthcare PromiseEmail this article to a colleague.
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[AEP]President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday said the New Patriotic Party's proposal to provide free healthcare to children under 18 years was in contrast to the National Health Insurance Authority law.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Antibodies Offer Aids Vaccine ClueEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Health-e]Nature medicine article on antibodies
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 22, 2012 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Ground-Breaking SA Discovery Could Be Useful to Produce Aids VaccineEmail this article to a colleague.
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[SAnews.gov.za]Johannesburg -A ground-breaking discovery by South African scientists, which provides an important new approach that could prove useful in making an Aids vaccine, has been announced.
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 22, 2012 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Gambia: Feeding the Hungry BillionEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Observer]This year's World Food Day has been commemorated with emphasises on agricultural cooperatives as agents for food security. Each year the event is observed, it reminds us of ongoing efforts by the Gambia government in the struggle not only against hunger, but poverty as a primary cause of the many anomalies that continue to engulf our part of the world.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Makeup On the Eyelashes May Damage Eyes - OptometristEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Vanguard]A consultant Optometrist, Dr Michael Nwoko, on Sunday advised women not to apply eyelashes as makeup to avoid damaging the eyes.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Dutch Philanthropists Boost Brikama Health CentreEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Observer]Some Dutch philanthropists Monday donated hospital materials including an incubator to the Brikama Health Centre in West Coast Region. The presentation of the materials was held at the health facility.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Health Committee Urges South Africans to Do Away With Mental Illness StigmaEmail this article to a colleague.
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[SA Govt]The Portfolio Committee on Health has urged South Africans to come together and do away with stigma attached to mental illness.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tanzania: Primary Health Has Improved in Urban Areas, Says ReportEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily News]Moshi -ABOUT 98 per cent of Tanzania's households in urban areas live within six kilometres of a primary health facility, with a mean distance of just 1.1 km.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Transforming Nutrition - Assessing the Size of the TaskEmail this article to a colleague.
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[IDS]Tuesday is World Food Day and – given that world food prices are once again making the headlines, it seems timely to be assessing the state of undernutrition in the world. But it’s also depressing to see a topic returning to the media front pages that should never have gone away.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Journalists Trained On Reporting Election, HealthEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Concord]An international media institution, Radar Media Development, has concluded two-day training for journalists on reporting election issues, health and international news at the Leonard Cheshire LRC, Congo Cross.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Africa and the War On DrugsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[African Arguments]Islamic terrorists with interests in the cocaine trade have taken over northern Mali. Fuelled by narco-dollars, they are threatening further mayhem. Perhaps these same people are also the brains behind human trafficking through the Sahara to Europe, another source of misery.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Scientists Discover HIV Neutralising AntibodiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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[SAPA]Johannesburg -Medical research on two women living with HIV has found that they developed antibodies which were able to kill at least 88 percent of the virus.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
African Ministers Pledge to Speed Access to Life-Saving Commodities for All Women and Children - 16 October 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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ABUJA, Nigeria – At the ministerial meeting of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, health ministers from seven African countries committed to speed-up access to and use of 13 life-saving commodities to all women and children in their countries by 2015. The meeting, hosted by the Government of Nigeria with the support of the Commission Secretariat, UNFPA and UNICEF, was a culmination of efforts by countries and the global community to address a key constraint to improving lives of women and children all over the world: limited access to life-savings commodities.
Source: UNFPA News - October 22, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Nigeria: 58 Institutions to Benefit From NHIsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Trust]Bauchi -Fifty eight tertiary institutions from the North-east will be included in the Tertiary Institutions Social Health Insurance Programme of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Optometrist Recommends Use of SunglassesEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Trust]Dr. Ochei Louis, an optometrist at Bwari General Hospital in the FCT, has advised people to use sunglasses to prevent conjunctivitis, an infectious eye disease.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: 4,000 Pilgrims From Kano Treated for Heat-Related Ailments in Saudi ArabiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Trust]Makkah -About 4,000 out of the 7,059 pilgrims of Kano State were diagnosed with heat-related illnesses and treated in the past two weeks by doctors attached to the state's pilgrims board, according to Dr. Hafsat Isa Hashim, the board's head of medical team in Makkah.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: NAFDAC Issues Deadline for Drugs SafeguardEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Trust]The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has given January 2013 as deadline to all pharmaceutical companies in the country to comply with the new technology of putting a scratch card on their drugs to stop imitation.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Flood - Women, Children to Get Free Treatment in KogiEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Trust]Lokoja -Wife of the Kogi State governor, Hajia Halimat Wada, has said that women and children displaced by flood in the state will receive free medical treatment. Hajiya Halimat disclosed this through the wife of the deputy governor, Tokunbo Awoniyi, at the weekend when she visited camps in the state to donate relief materials.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: NAC Buys U.S$15 Million ArvsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[The Herald]The National Aids Council has this year procured anti-retroviral drugs worth nearly US$15 million following depletion of national stocks. Speaking at an HIV and Aids review meeting with provincial medical directors and other stakeholders involved in HIV and Aids response in Kwekwe last week, Nac chief executive officer Dr Tapuwa Magure said the money was almost 70 percent from the National Aids Trust Fund.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: MSF and TAC Write to Motsoaledi Re the ARV TenderEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Health-e]Due to several concerns with the antiretroviral tender, the Treatment Action Campaign and MSF last week sent a joint letter to the Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 22, 2012 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Blood Donors Save Countless LivesEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Health-e]Bethlehem -Dr Pieter Murray is a Bethlehem resident and one of the area’s approximately 4 500 donors with the South African National Blood Services (SANBS). For many years Murray has donated blood regularly without getting anything in return except the peace-of-mind that he is making a difference in the lives of many people that he has never even seen.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: KZN Community Suffers Without Municipal ServicesEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Health-e]Mgungunlovu -Residents from the Shiya Bazali township face many of challenges every day. The informal settlement has no municipal services which mean no electricity, no flushing toilets and only one communal tap for the whole township. The poor sanitation and lack of infrastructure causes many health issues in the community.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: WHO Reports Back On TBEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Health-e]“In the space of 17 years, 51 million people have been successfully treated and cared for according to WHO recommendations. Without that treatment, 20 million people would have died,” says Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the WHO Stop TB Department. “This milestone reflects the commitment of governments to transform the fight against TB.”
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Catholics Protest Veritas ClosureEmail this article to a colleague.
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[New Dawn]The congregation of the Roman Catholic Church in Liberia Sunday carried out protest demonstration in front of the Sacred Heart Cathedral during the worship service demanding the reopening of Radio Veritas.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Africans Going Dutch - Part 48 - No Country for Old MenEmail this article to a colleague.
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[RNW Africa]"Have you ever seen a grey-haired African living in The Netherlands?" a friend once asked me. I was taken aback by this question. They are here of course. But the fact that I could not immediately think of one made me curious. Ever since, I have been looking around, hoping to find someone who fits the profile.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Ourhealth - TB Patient in the Dark About TreatmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Health-e]Lusikisiki, Eastrn Cape -Zolile Mabena is in a difficult situation – a severe TB-infection has left him with just one functioning lung. He is too weak to work or even take care of himself, and his social grant was stopped after he completed his TB treatment. He relies on the kindness of friends to support him.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Southern Africa: Ourhealth - Community Stands Together Against HIVEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Health-e]Vhembe District, Limpopo -Community members from the Vhembe district in Limpopo this week held a gathering at the Matavhela Clinic to celebrate the success the community has achieved in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Township Toilets SickeningEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Health-e]Bethlehem -Residents of the Selahliwe informal settlement have had to deal with poor sanitation and disgraceful toilet facilities for years.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
