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DR CONGO: Urban Water Supply Needs AttentionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - November 17, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

RIGHTS-UGANDA: "You Cannot Tell Me You Will Kill Me Because I’m Gay"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - November 9, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

AFRICA: Drug Subsidy Key to Anti-Malaria EffortEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - November 6, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

RIGHTS-MALAWI: Blame Game While Children SufferEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - November 5, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

AFRICA: Malaria Vaccine Draws CloserEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - November 5, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-KENYA: Affordable New Weapon Against Cervical CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - October 1, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Back Policy With FundingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - October 1, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

Q&A: Harmonise the Efforts of African ScientistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - September 25, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

Q&A: Why Sanitation Is the Forgotten SisterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 25, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

LESOTHO: Cultural Beliefs Threaten Prevention of Mother-Child HIV TransmissionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - May 21, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: Government Promises to Rebuild Health SystemEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - April 23, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

SOUTH AFRICA: Implementation, Not Money the Obstacle to Scaling Up HIV TreatmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - April 11, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-DR CONGO: Malaria Remains Biggest KillerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - November 21, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

Q&A: Zimbabwean Women Have Had ‘‘More Trauma'' After IndependenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - October 16, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

TRADE-AFRICA: Art Creating Hope in the Midst of Death and DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - October 16, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

VIETNAM: Mekong Delta Farmers on Bird Flu AlertEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - October 8, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

Q&A: Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us AllEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - October 7, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-KENYA: Malaria Rises to Highland AreasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - September 27, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-SWAZILAND: AIDS Creating a Society in DistressEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - September 27, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-SWAZILAND: AIDS Creating a Society in DistressEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - July 25, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every YearEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - July 9, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Water Studies - But Where Are the Water Supplies?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 18, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every YearEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - May 30, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

Q&A: Circumcision an "Opportunity To Take Great Strides Forward" Against HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - April 30, 2008 Category: African Health Source Type: info

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: The City of "Passport Size" AblutionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - August 1, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

ECONOMY-MALAWI: Being a ''Good Pupil'' Can Be Bad for YouEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 22, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

ENVIRONMENT-AFRICA: Getting Most of the Heat From Global WarmingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - May 17, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

DEVELOPMENT-BOTSWANA: ''Will the MDGs Help Me Find a Job?''Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - May 1, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: MDGs Depend on Power Relations ChangingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - April 24, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

DEVELOPMENT: Report Details Toll Taken by Lack of Water, SanitationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - April 18, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH: Despite Modest Advances, Malaria Still a Major Killer in AfricaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH: A Wind of Hope in Kenya's DesertEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

REFUGEES-KENYA: Contraceptives - Both Needed and ScornedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: AIDS Orphans - a Silent TsunamiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-SWAZILAND: A Message to Teenagers -- Take Charge!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

POLITICS-SUDAN: Remember DarfurEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

MEXICO: Wilma Devastated Hotels, Tourism Workers' Shacks AlikeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

HEALTH-NAMIBIA: In Prisons, a Little Latex Could Go a Long WayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

SCIENCE-SOUTH AFRICA: From "Publish or Perish" to "Publish and Vanish"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - February 5, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info

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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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Diseases Africa - June 30, 2006 Category: African Health Source Type: info