MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa' source. Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:51:38 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2999014&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D49295 KINSHASA, Nov 17 (IPS) - Kinshasa's population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day. The Régie de distribution des eaux (REGIDESO) produces only 425,000 cubic metres - vast neighbourhoods like Kitokimosi and Mpasa receive almost none of this water. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2999014 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:13:00 +0100 2999014 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2973548&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D49189 KAMPALA, Nov 9 (IPS) - The Ugandan government will put to death gay citizens repeatedly caught having sex and throw into jail those who touch each other in a "gay" way, if a new proposed Bill becomes law. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2973548 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:20:19 +0100 2973548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2966599&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D49154 NAIROBI, Nov 5 (IPS) - Just three percent of malaria-infected children in Africa get World Health Organisation-recommended drugs. One expert has equated this to a death sentence for sick children. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2966599 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:51:43 +0100 2966599 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2962694&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D49134 LIMBE, Malawi, Nov 4 (IPS) - Every morning 12-year-old Thomson Genti and his seven-year-old brother, Chifundo, emerge dirty and wretched from the squalor of their hideout behind the crowded shops in the commercial town of Limbe. It is the start of a day of begging, beatings from the older street boys and insults from passers-by. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2962694 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:06:13 +0100 2962694 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2962693&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D49137 NAIROBI, Nov 4 (IPS) - After 20 years of trials, scientists have announced they are on the threshold of discovering a malaria vaccine. Researchers warn that Africa may not be ready to make use of the vaccine should it be approved as expected within five years. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2962693 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:06:13 +0100 2962693 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2850876&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D48671 NAIROBI, Oct 1 (IPS) - Faced with an increase in the number of cervical cancer cases, Kenya has adopted a simple, cheap yet effective visual inspection method of detection. Ideal for low resource settings, the test is offering reprieve to thousands of women who die annually from the disease. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2850876 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:21:20 +0100 2850876 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2850875&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D48680 MANSA, Zambia, Oct 1 (IPS) - Water- and sanitation-related diseases cost communities dearly, particularly in rural Zambia. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2850875 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:21:20 +0100 2850875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2831523&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D48585 ADDIS ABABA, Sep 24 (IPS) - As many as 100 million people in Africa suffer from schistosomiasis, a chronic illness caused by a parasite associated with freshwater snails. The schistosoma flatworm causes a debilitating illness that can damage internal organs, and stunt growth and cognitive development of children. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2831523 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:51:00 +0100 2831523 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2504027&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D47180 BULAWAYO, Jun 11 (IPS) - As part of the International Year of Sanitation in 2008, Zimbabwe developed a national strategy for sanitation, launched in February 2008. Just five months later, a cholera outbreak that was to claim over 4,000 lives began. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2504027 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:12 +0100 2504027 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2426952&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D46933 MASERU, May 21 (IPS) - A health centre in one of Lesotho’s poorest districts has scored significant success in implementing a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme, but health experts warn that a number of factors, including cultural beliefs and stigma, threaten to derail it. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2426952 Thu, 21 May 2009 16:11:26 +0100 2426952 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2358476&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D46401 HARARE, Apr 4 (IPS) - The resuscitation of Zimbabwe’s health care system has been identified as one of the major challenges facing the country by the country’s new unity government. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2358476 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:46:23 +0100 2358476 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2324139&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D46341 DURBAN, Mar 31 (IPS) - The money to scale up HIV treatment is there, but implementation of programmes to curb the pandemic is a problem, health experts said at the opening of the Fourth South African AIDS Conference in Durban. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2324139 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:39:59 +0100 2324139 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1973484&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D44461 LUBUMBASHI (Democratic Republic of Congo), Oct 27 (IPS) - With almost 200,000 people dying of malaria each year in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the disease remains the country's biggest killer. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1973484 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:31:38 +0100 1973484 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1878915&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D43860 CAPE TOWN, Sep 13 (IPS) - Zimbabwean women have experienced higher levels of trauma, including violence and lack of food, after the country's independence from Britain in 1980 than before. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1878915 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:42:18 +0100 1878915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1878914&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D43996 CAPE TOWN, Sep 25 (IPS) - Zulu artists working at the Ardmore Ceramic Studio in South Africa’s coastal province of KwaZulu Natal have gone from poverty to international acclaim. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1878914 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:42:18 +0100 1878914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1858658&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D43014 CAN THO, Vietnam, Jun 30 (IPS) - The bustling city of Can Tho is the capital of southern Vietnam’s fertile Mekong Delta and one of the country’s two main rice baskets. Good food in abundance makes it an ideal place to raise ducks and chickens, but this also means it is also one of the most high-risk areas in the country for bird flu. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1858658 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:18:32 +0100 1858658 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1855165&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D43191 JOHANNESBURG, Jul 15 (IPS) - South Africa has become a destination for people from across the continent and beyond. But in spite of migrants having a legal right to free antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV, they are being turned away from government clinics. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1855165 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:59:08 +0100 1855165 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1832150&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D42976 NAIROBI, Jun 26 (IPS) - The end of June marks the start of the malaria season in East Africa. After the long rains, conditions in lowland swamps and coastal regions are more conducive for mosquito breeding. But in recent years malaria has also appeared in the highland areas where it was previously unheard of. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1832150 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:23:40 +0100 1832150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1832149&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D43303 MANZINI, Jul 24 (IPS) - In a narrow and still winter-brown valley, little more than a crevice between rocky mountains, Gogo Ndlovu looks after her five young orphaned grandchildren. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1832149 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:23:40 +0100 1832149 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1651583&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D43303 MANZINI, Jul 24 (IPS) - In a narrow and still winter-brown valley, little more than a crevice between rocky mountains, Gogo Ndlovu looks after her five young orphaned grandchildren. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1651583 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:12:09 +0100 1651583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1595362&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D42593 CAPE TOWN, May 30 (IPS) - When four-year-old Alice Were suddenly developed a fever, her mother Miriam took her to the local medicine woman close to her house in Kangemi, a poor, cramped settlement on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Two days later, Alice was unconscious. Her frantic mother rushed to hospital with the child in her arms. But it was too late. Alice died of malaria. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1595362 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:13:46 +0100 1595362 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1524388&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D42626 NAIROBI, Jun 2 (IPS) - The road leading to the informal settlement of Korogocho is narrow and winding. Here, in Nairobi's third largest slum, up to 150,000 people are crammed into an area of just over one square kilometre, their shanties made of cardboard, wood or metal. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1524388 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:18:55 +0100 1524388 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1477000&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D42593 CAPE TOWN, May 30 (IPS) - When four-year-old Alice Were suddenly developed a fever, her mother Miriam took her to the local medicine woman close to her house in Kangemi, a poor, cramped settlement on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Two days later, Alice was unconscious. Her frantic mother rushed to hospital with the child in her arms. But it was too late. Alice died of malaria. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1477000 Fri, 30 May 2008 14:19:18 +0100 1477000 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1409049&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D42189 JOHANNESBURG, Apr 30 (IPS) - Results from trials in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda in 2006 showed that male circumcision reduced the transmission of HIV from women to men by up to 60 percent. On the basis of these results, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organisation have recommended that countries encourage men to be circumcised. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1409049 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:45:55 +0100 1409049 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=769943&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D38749 HARARE, Jul 31 (IPS) - The City Council of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, has issued a warning to residents of a possible outbreak of disease following a massive cut in the city’s water supply. This is the first time in Bulawayo's history such a health warning has been issued. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=769943 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:01:36 +0100 769943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=689511&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D37376 BLANTYRE, Apr 17 (IPS) - Five years after the famine in which more than 1,000 Malawians died and 8 million of the country's 12 million people suffered from hunger, the bitter memory of bad policy advice still lingers on. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=689511 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:15:56 +0100 689511 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=606723&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D37770 JOHANNESBURG, May 17 (IPS) - Nobody will escape the effects of climate change but the poor in Africa will suffer the most because of decreasing food production and the heightened prevalence of diseases such as malaria, warn environmentalists, church leaders and researchers. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=606723 Thu, 17 May 2007 22:58:01 +0100 606723 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=581680&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D37524 GABORONE, Apr 27 (IPS) - Batswana are divided about the viability of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In random interviews, IPS found some arguing that the MDGs are elitist ideas unattainable in reality while others contend that the MDGs can be used to address socio-economic problems. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=581680 Tue, 01 May 2007 17:20:02 +0100 581680 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=566145&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D36913 JOHANNESBURG, Mar 14 (IPS) - ‘‘The people of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta are poor not because they do not have resources but because they do not have political power. Those who wield power in Nigeria are building skyscrapers in Lagos and Abuja while there is nothing in the Niger Delta. It is the same at the global level.'' (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=566145 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:10:02 +0100 566145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=549690&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D35423 JOHANNESBURG, Nov 9 (IPS) - The 2006 Human Development Report, 'Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis', focuses on the ongoing problems that surround provision of potable water and sanitation. The document is being launched Thursday in Cape Town, South Africa, by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=549690 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:50:02 +0100 549690 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68085&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D28549 GENEVA, May 3 (IPS) - Despite the promising advances made in the prevention and treatment of malaria around the world, the disease continues to represent a major challenge in Africa, where the overwhelming majority of deaths now take place. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68085 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68085 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68084&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29121 ISIOLO, Jun 17 (IPS) - Madonna's 1980s hit song 'Like a Virgin' blasts incongruously from a giant silver speaker in the corner of a bar deep inside Isiolo - a dusty town on the edge of Kenya's northern Kaisut desert, filled with tough nomads and their herds of emaciated animals. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68084 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68084 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68083&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29143 NAIROBI, Jun 20 (IPS) - As the international community marks World Refugee Day, a Somali woman's tale of how she helped fellow refugees terminate pregnancies has highlighted the shortcomings of reproductive health care in refugee camps. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68083 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68083 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68082&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29182 JOHANNESBURG, Jun 22 (IPS) - Twelve million and counting: that is the number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. This figure is expected to double by 2010. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68082 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68081&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29519 MBABANE, Jul 15 (IPS) - A new advertising campaign aimed at curtailing teenage HIV rates by promoting abstinence is using a combination of traditional and modern values in its appeal to Swazi youth. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68081 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68081 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68080&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D30095 NAIROBI, Sep 1 (IPS) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has renewed calls for the international community to press for peace in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68080 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68079&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D30752 MEXICO CITY, Oct 24 (IPS) - Much less visible than the damages caused by Hurricane Wilma to Cancún's luxury hotels on Mexico's Caribbean shoreline is the destruction of the tumbledown shacks built well out of view of the hotel strip, which house the tens of thousands of workers who serve the industry. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68079 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68079 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68078&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D31651 WINDHOEK, Jan 3 (IPS) - A piece of legislation nearly 30 years old that outlaws male-to-male sodomy may, at first glance, appear more a target for gay rights activists than AIDS campaigners. Seen in the context of Namibia's prisons however, the 1977 Criminal Procedures Act raises questions that relate to both health and rights. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68078 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68077&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D33219 CAPE TOWN, May 12 (IPS) - "Publish or perish" is the warning given many academics at the start of their careers. But it's publication of a very particular kind that scholarly researchers crave. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68077 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:35:02 +0100 68077 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83596&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D26399 NIAMEY, Nov 23 (IPS) - When poverty and traditional practices collide in Niger, the results can be ruinous – particularly for teenage girls. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83596 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83596 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83595&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27065 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 (IPS) - Global poverty is threatening world security and jeopardising international efforts to end violent conflict, instability and terrorism, a team of leading development experts declared in a study released Monday. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83595 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83595 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83594&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27187 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (IPS) - Within three weeks after the tsunami disaster ravaged south and south-east Asia, the international donor community responded magnanimously by pledging an unprecedented 5.5 billion to 6 billion dollars for emergency relief and reconstruction. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83594 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83594 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83593&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27203 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - A senior U.N. official warned Thursday that the ongoing conflicts in Africa would continue to have a "devastating impact" on civilians this year -- "as it has been for many months, and in some cases, for many years". (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83593 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83593 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83592&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27638 NOUAKCHOTT, Feb 26 (IPS) - In the wooden shanty town of Elmina on the outskirts of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, AIDS educators do not let religious or cultural conservatism get in their way. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83592 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83592 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83591&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D28398 PRETORIA, Apr 21 (IPS) - There are fewer cases of Marburg fever being reported out of Angola this week, but medical experts say it is too soon to say this indicates the hemorrhagic virus is waning. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83591 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83591 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83590&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D28549 GENEVA, May 3 (IPS) - Despite the promising advances made in the prevention and treatment of malaria around the world, the disease continues to represent a major challenge in Africa, where the overwhelming majority of deaths now take place. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83590 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83590 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83589&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29121 ISIOLO, Jun 17 (IPS) - Madonna's 1980s hit song 'Like a Virgin' blasts incongruously from a giant silver speaker in the corner of a bar deep inside Isiolo - a dusty town on the edge of Kenya's northern Kaisut desert, filled with tough nomads and their herds of emaciated animals. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83589 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83589 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83588&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29143 NAIROBI, Jun 20 (IPS) - As the international community marks World Refugee Day, a Somali woman's tale of how she helped fellow refugees terminate pregnancies has highlighted the shortcomings of reproductive health care in refugee camps. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83588 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83587&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29182 JOHANNESBURG, Jun 22 (IPS) - Twelve million and counting: that is the number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. This figure is expected to double by 2010. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83587 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83587 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83586&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29519 MBABANE, Jul 15 (IPS) - A new advertising campaign aimed at curtailing teenage HIV rates by promoting abstinence is using a combination of traditional and modern values in its appeal to Swazi youth. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83586 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83586 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83585&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D30095 NAIROBI, Sep 1 (IPS) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has renewed calls for the international community to press for peace in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83585 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83585 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83584&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D30752 MEXICO CITY, Oct 24 (IPS) - Much less visible than the damages caused by Hurricane Wilma to Cancún's luxury hotels on Mexico's Caribbean shoreline is the destruction of the tumbledown shacks built well out of view of the hotel strip, which house the tens of thousands of workers who serve the industry. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83584 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83584 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83583&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D31651 WINDHOEK, Jan 3 (IPS) - A piece of legislation nearly 30 years old that outlaws male-to-male sodomy may, at first glance, appear more a target for gay rights activists than AIDS campaigners. Seen in the context of Namibia's prisons however, the 1977 Criminal Procedures Act raises questions that relate to both health and rights. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83583 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=83582&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D33219 CAPE TOWN, May 12 (IPS) - "Publish or perish" is the warning given many academics at the start of their careers. But it's publication of a very particular kind that scholarly researchers crave. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=83582 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 83582 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78335&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D26399 NIAMEY, Nov 23 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78335 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78335 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78334&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27065 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78334 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78333&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27187 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78333 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78332&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27203 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78332 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78332 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78331&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27638 NOUAKCHOTT, Feb 26 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78331 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78331 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78330&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D28398 PRETORIA, Apr 21 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78330 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78330 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78329&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D28549 GENEVA, May 3 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78329 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78329 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78328&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29121 ISIOLO, Jun 17 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78328 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78328 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78327&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29143 NAIROBI, Jun 20 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78327 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78327 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78326&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29182 JOHANNESBURG, Jun 22 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78326 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78326 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78325&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D29519 MBABANE, Jul 15 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78325 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78325 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78324&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D30095 NAIROBI, Sep 1 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78324 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78324 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78323&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D30752 MEXICO CITY, Oct 24 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78323 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78323 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78322&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D31651 WINDHOEK, Jan 3 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78322 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78322 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=78321&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D33219 CAPE TOWN, May 12 (IPS) - eben (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=78321 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 78321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68091&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D26399 NIAMEY, Nov 23 (IPS) - When poverty and traditional practices collide in Niger, the results can be ruinous – particularly for teenage girls. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68091 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 68091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68090&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27065 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 (IPS) - Global poverty is threatening world security and jeopardising international efforts to end violent conflict, instability and terrorism, a team of leading development experts declared in a study released Monday. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68090 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 68090 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68089&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27187 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (IPS) - Within three weeks after the tsunami disaster ravaged south and south-east Asia, the international donor community responded magnanimously by pledging an unprecedented 5.5 billion to 6 billion dollars for emergency relief and reconstruction. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68089 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 68089 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68088&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27203 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - A senior U.N. official warned Thursday that the ongoing conflicts in Africa would continue to have a "devastating impact" on civilians this year -- "as it has been for many months, and in some cases, for many years". (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68088 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 68088 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68087&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D27638 NOUAKCHOTT, Feb 26 (IPS) - In the wooden shanty town of Elmina on the outskirts of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, AIDS educators do not let religious or cultural conservatism get in their way. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68087 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 68087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=68086&cid=s_22826_63_f&fid=22826&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D28398 PRETORIA, Apr 21 (IPS) - There are fewer cases of Marburg fever being reported out of Angola this week, but medical experts say it is too soon to say this indicates the hemorrhagic virus is waning. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa) IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa info http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=68086 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:00:00 +0100 68086