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Women Central to Efforts to Deal With Climate Change, Says New UNFPA Report - 18 November 2009
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LONDON - Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 21, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
UNFPA Report Linking Climate Change, Women to Be Released on 18 November - 04 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York — In a new report to be issued on Wednesday, 18 November, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will show how people, especially empowered women, could make a difference in the fight against climate change. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 21, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Statement by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid on Killing in Kabul - 28 October 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today expressed deep sadness at the loss of lives of some United Nations staff and Afghan people in today’s attacks in Kabul. She extended her heartfelt sympathies to all of the families and friends of the dead or wounded. Appealing to parliam... (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 21, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Women Central to Efforts to Deal With Climate Change, Says New UNFPA Report - 18 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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LONDON - Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 20, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
UNFPA Report Linking Climate Change, Women to Be Released on 18 November - 04 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York — In a new report to be issued on Wednesday, 18 November, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will show how people, especially empowered women, could make a difference in the fight against climate change. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 20, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Statement by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid on Killing in Kabul - 28 October 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today expressed deep sadness at the loss of lives of some United Nations staff and Afghan people in today’s attacks in Kabul. She extended her heartfelt sympathies to all of the families and friends of the dead or wounded. Appealing to parliam... (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 20, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
DEVELOPMENT: Child Rights Make Headway, But Millions Still SufferingEmail this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (IPS) - The international community, which has been hit by
a financial meltdown and a global food crisis, claims it is doing
its best to protect and safeguard the rights of children
worldwide. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 20, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
UNFPA Report Highlights Relationship Between Family Planning, Women's Health And Climate ChangeEmail this article to a colleague.
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"Providing access to contraception for 215 million women, mainly in developing countries, would help to stabilize population growth and significantly reduce the effects of climate change," according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Nature News reports (Gilbert, 11/18). (Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today)
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Sexual Health / STDs Source Type: news
UNFPA Report Highlights Relationship Between Family Planning, Women's Health And Climate ChangeEmail this article to a colleague.
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"Providing access to contraception for 215 million women, mainly in developing countries, would help to stabilize population growth and significantly reduce the effects of climate change," according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Nature News reports (Gilbert, 11/18). (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sexual Health / STDs Source Type: news
Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born: U.N.Email this article to a colleague.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Urgent aid needed to restore Indonesia's quake-ravaged health services - UNEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hospitals, clinics and other health services for thousands of Indonesians need urgent aid after two earthquakes ravaged west Sumatra in September, with the goal of enabling them to better withstand future emergencies, the United Nations health agency said today. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 20, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Libya and UN agency enter pact to boost food security, sustainable developmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Libya have agreed on a $71 million programme to boost cooperation over the next five years to strengthen food security and sustainable development in the country. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 20, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
[Perspectives] Book: Force-feeding prisoners and the role of physiciansEmail this article to a colleague.
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In his Sept 29 address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Barack Obama told the world that for those “who question the character and cause of my nation” two “concrete actions” should be taken as proof that the USA really has changed: the prohibition, “without exception or equivocation” of the use of torture and ordering the prison at Guantanamo Bay to be closed. Both are critical steps for my country to try to regain its position in the world as a human rights leader. (Source: LANCET)
Source: LANCET - November 20, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: George J Annas Tags: Perspectives Source Type: journals
Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born: UNEmail this article to a colleague.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
UNFPA Report Linking Climate Change, Women to Be Released on 18 November - 04 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York — In a new report to be issued on Wednesday, 18 November, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will show how people, especially empowered women, could make a difference in the fight against climate change. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Statement by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid on Killing in Kabul - 28 October 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today expressed deep sadness at the loss of lives of some United Nations staff and Afghan people in today’s attacks in Kabul. She extended her heartfelt sympathies to all of the families and friends of the dead or wounded. Appealing to parliam... (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Women Central to Efforts to Deal With Climate Change, Says New UNFPA Report - 18 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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LONDON - Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
World Food Programme Calls For Citizen Action To Feed The One Billion HungryEmail this article to a colleague.
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At a time when funds to feed the hungry are hard to come by, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urged ordinary people to put food on the table of the world's hungry by supporting the "Billion for a Billion" online campaign. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
World Food Programme Calls For Citizen Action To Feed The One Billion HungryEmail this article to a colleague.
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At a time when funds to feed the hungry are hard to come by, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urged ordinary people to put food on the table of the world's hungry by supporting the "Billion for a Billion" online campaign. "The challenge of feeding a billion people may seem huge, but now you can fill the cup of a hungry child with a simple click of a mouse," said Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of WFP. (Source: Nutrition/Agriculture News From Medical News Today)
Source: Nutrition/Agriculture News From Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
Global Monitoring System Will Tell Whether HIV-Reduction Goals For 2015 Will Be MetEmail this article to a colleague.
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Although much work remains to be done, a United Nations global reporting system on HIV/AIDS has already yielded an "unequaled wealth of data" on progress toward meeting UN targets for responding to the global HIV epidemic. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HIV / AIDS Source Type: news
Global Monitoring System Will Tell Whether HIV-Reduction Goals For 2015 Will Be MetEmail this article to a colleague.
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Although much work remains to be done, a United Nations global reporting system on HIV/AIDS has already yielded an "unequaled wealth of data" on progress toward meeting UN targets for responding to the global HIV epidemic. An update on the development of the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) global reporting system appears in a special supplement to JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. (Source: HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today)
Source: HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV / AIDS Source Type: news
Swine Flu Deception and Disinformation ExposedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion - a recombinant strain produced from Bird Flu live viruses and a seasonal or Swine Flu strain can create a virus with morbidity (high widespread death rate).Last August, an international microbiologist in California, Joseph Moshe, called anti-vaccination activist Dr. A. True Ott, warning him of a bioweapon at Baxter's facilities in Ukraine that could be used to create a pandemic. Dr. Ott divulged this on Deagle's radio show after Moshe was forcefully apprehended.The Ukrainian IncidentUp until the 29th of October, there were only two non-lethal swine flu cases reported within Ukraine's 46 million population. Very...
Source: NaturalNews.com - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Spain doubles aid for UN food operation in Horn of AfricaEmail this article to a colleague.
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received a boost today for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Despite much progress, more must be done to protect children's rights - UNEmail this article to a colleague.
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Despite considerable progress over the past 20 years in improving the lot of the world's children, including a 28 per cent drop in annual mortality of those under five from 12.5 million to an estimated 8.8 million, their rights are still far from assured, according to a new United Nations report issued today. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Curbing population growth crucial to reducing carbon emissionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Access to contraception could tackle global warming, says United Nations. (Source: news@nature.com)
Source: news@nature.com - November 18, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals
Women Central to Efforts to Deal With Climate Change, Says New UNFPA Report - 18 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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LONDON - Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
UNFPA Report Linking Climate Change, Women to Be Released on 18 November - 04 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York — In a new report to be issued on Wednesday, 18 November, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will show how people, especially empowered women, could make a difference in the fight against climate change. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Statement by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid on Killing in Kabul - 28 October 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today expressed deep sadness at the loss of lives of some United Nations staff and Afghan people in today’s attacks in Kabul. She extended her heartfelt sympathies to all of the families and friends of the dead or wounded. Appealing to parliam... (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Summit’s Failure Exposes Grim RealityEmail this article to a colleague.
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ROME, Nov 17 (IPS) - There are two main ways the flop of this week’s
United Nations World Food
Security Summit in Rome - which has
been snubbed by the world’s top leaders,
has failed to deliver
binding aid commitments, or to set a target date for the
eradication of hunger - is being read. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
A Review of Children's Rights Literature Since the Adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ChildEmail this article to a colleague.
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Children’s rights have become a significant field of study during the past decades, largely due to the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989. Today, scholarly work on children’s rights is almost inconceivable without considering the Convention as the bearer of the children’s rights debate. The goal of this article is to critically explore academic work on the UNCRC. By means of a discourse analysis of international literature, the article maps the academic discourse on children’s rights. Three themes are identified that predominate in the academic work ...
Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Reynaert, D., Bouverne-de-Bie, M., Vandevelde, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
US evangelicals warm to climate change science in Capitol Hill campaign| Suzanne GoldenbergEmail this article to a colleague.
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Leading environmental scientists and evangelical Christians join forces to lobby senators in support of the climate billThe handful of Senators trying to rustle up support for Obama's energy and climate change legislation in Congress could certainly do with some inspiration, or even divine intervention – so an initiative this week by scientists and evangelical leaders is especially timely.Members of the two camps paired up in a campaign on Capitol Hill to lobby Senators to support the bill. Evangelicals are the bedrock of the Republican party and are often seen as sceptical of science, from global warming to evolution. S...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 18, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Suzanne Goldenberg Tags: Climate change Climate change scepticism Christianity Science Environment US Congress United States World news guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news
UN food summit ends without specific targets for ending global hungerEmail this article to a colleague.
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The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome today with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Access to food still difficult for vulnerable Tajik families, reports UNEmail this article to a colleague.
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The 2009 harvest in Tajikistan is exceptionally good, but access to food remains difficult for vulnerable families in the Central Asian nation, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
UN report points to central role women play in efforts to fight climate changeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Climate change strikes it fiercest blow against the poorest, most vulnerable people around the world, according to a United Nations report released today, urging policymakers to heed the role of women - who make up the majority of the poor - in combating climate change. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
UNFPA Report Linking Climate Change, Women to Be Released on 18 November - 04 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York — In a new report to be issued on Wednesday, 18 November, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will show how people, especially empowered women, could make a difference in the fight against climate change. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Statement by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid on Killing in Kabul - 28 October 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today expressed deep sadness at the loss of lives of some United Nations staff and Afghan people in today’s attacks in Kabul. She extended her heartfelt sympathies to all of the families and friends of the dead or wounded. Appealing to parliam... (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Global Events Planned to Speed Up Progress on Population and Development Goals, Increase Action on Maternal Health - 15 October 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York—More than 160 ministers, parliamentarians, and representatives of regional intergovernmental organizations and other world leaders will gather in Addis Ababa for a High-Level Meeting on Maternal Health – Millennium Development Goal 5. The 26 October event, organized by the Netherlands and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is intended to push maternal health higher on the political agenda and increase political and financial commitment for improving maternal health at the country level. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Education for Sustainable Development in Scotland's colleges and universities: halfway there?Email this article to a colleague.
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We are now halfway through the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development. The Decade aims to promote education as a basis for a more sustainable society and
to integrate sustainable development into education at all levels and all areas of life.
The Scottish Parliament passed the Climate Change Act in June. This will require wide-ranging and
significant responses from further and higher education if we are to meet the Government's targets
for a low carbon future.
This conference will consider the contribution that Scotland's colleges and universities are making
to the targets in the Climate ...
Source: MEDEV Events - November 17, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: info
West Africa: Health Teams Launch Mass Yellow Fever VaccinationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The largest-ever mass vaccination campaign protecting populations from the dangerously infectious yellow fever disease will begin next week across three West African countries, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 17, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
WHO/UNICEF : Global action plan for prevention and control of pneumonia (GAPP)Email this article to a colleague.
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2 NOVEMBER 2009 | GENEVA/NEW YORK - A comprehensive action plan that can save up to 5.3 million children from dying of pneumonia by 2015 is being launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Yellow fever vaccination drive to cover almost 12 million West Africans - UNEmail this article to a colleague.
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The largest-ever mass vaccination campaign protecting populations from the dangerously infectious yellow fever disease will begin next week across three West African countries, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Ordinary citizens can help world's hungry billion through online UN campaignEmail this article to a colleague.
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As the number of chronically hungry people tops one billion, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is calling on ordinary citizens to mobilize through the "Billion for a Billion" campaign to end hunger. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Violence against Kyrgyz woman rising despite legal restraints, UN expert saysEmail this article to a colleague.
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Despite the encouraging commitments by the Kyrgyz Government, women and girls are increasingly vulnerable to violence, exploitation and destitution, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today following her first mission to the country. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Women's empowerment in Africa targeted at UN-backed conferenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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A week-long United Nations-backed conference on achieving the equality and empowerment of women in Africa has opened in Banjul, The Gambia, with calls for an urgent revamping of current practices on the continent. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 17, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hungerEmail this article to a colleague.
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(Burness Communications) Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders underscored how the almost total absence of agriculture in the agreement could lead to widespread famine and food shortages in the years ahead. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 17, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Letters: Causes of Falluja's birth defectsEmail this article to a colleague.
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You are to be congratulated for bringing to public notice the possible causes of birth defects and cancers among infants in Falluja (Report, 14 November). You mention radiation poisoning, but not depleted uranium munitions.These munitions were used in the first and second Gulf wars, and in the Balkans. The then defence minister, Geoff Hoon, said in January 2001 that banning their use would put British service people's lives at risk, and that the weapons were "astonishingly effective". There are suspicions that they are now being used in Afghanistan.Depleted uranium is "1.7 times denser than lead, and highly valued by armie...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 17, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Iraq Weapons technology Medical research Science US foreign policy World news The Guardian Letters Source Type: news
UNFPA Report Linking Climate Change, Women to Be Released on 18 November - 04 November 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York — In a new report to be issued on Wednesday, 18 November, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will show how people, especially empowered women, could make a difference in the fight against climate change. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 16, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Statement by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid on Killing in Kabul - 28 October 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today expressed deep sadness at the loss of lives of some United Nations staff and Afghan people in today’s attacks in Kabul. She extended her heartfelt sympathies to all of the families and friends of the dead or wounded. Appealing to parliam... (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 16, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Global Events Planned to Speed Up Progress on Population and Development Goals, Increase Action on Maternal Health - 15 October 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York—More than 160 ministers, parliamentarians, and representatives of regional intergovernmental organizations and other world leaders will gather in Addis Ababa for a High-Level Meeting on Maternal Health – Millennium Development Goal 5. The 26 October event, organized by the Netherlands and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is intended to push maternal health higher on the political agenda and increase political and financial commitment for improving maternal health at the country level. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 16, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: organizations
Nigeria: UN Approves U.S. $2.4 Billion to Combat Aids, TuberculosisEmail this article to a colleague.
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The United Nations-backed Global Fund has approved new grants worth $2.4 billion for projects aimed at fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in low-income countries over the next two years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 16, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
