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May 24
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Africa: New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children
PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of... Read more »
May 20
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Africa: Put a Spotlight on African Women's Reproductive Rights [opinion]
Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday ... The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver... Read more »
May 6
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South Africa: Stockout Risks of New ARV Programme
"If I don't have my pills, I don't know what will happen. I will probably get sick again, very sick. Maybe I will die this time," says Xoliswa Mbana* as she readies her four young... Read more »
April 23
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South Africa: Educating Mothers to End Newborn Deaths
A young mother - who only wants to be identified as Karren - beamed as she nursed her newborn baby at the University of Witwatersrand's Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, in... Read more »
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Malawi: Tackling the Doctor Deficit
In Malawi, where the healthcare system frequently makes headlines for its shortages of drugs and medical workers, a fact that is often overlooked is that two out of four central... Read more »
April 16
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Africa: Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and... Read more »
April 9
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Swaziland: The Search for Swaziland's TB-Infected Mine Workers
For more than a decade after 1992, when Swazi gold miner Benson Maseko, 50, fell ill with chest pains and a nagging cough, he did not seek treatment. Read more »
April 4
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Libya: 'We Are Fighting the Drug Dealers for Our Country'
In Libya, a dose of LSD or the painkiller tramadol costs 78 cents, and a joint of cannabis is 7.80 dollars. Here, drugs are affordable to the poor for a simple reason. "Slashing... Read more »
February 21
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Congo-Kinshasa: Market Gardening Provides Livelihoods for Refugees
Standing behind her market stall in Masisu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which overflows with cabbages, carrots and onions, Marceline Dusabe does not fit the... Read more »
February 8
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Africa: 'Tsunami' of Diseases Waiting to Hit
A tsunami is looming on the horizon and the world is unprepared for it. This one won't be a massive wall of water but a tidal wave of disease - and experts say the international... Read more »
January 28
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Africa: No Woman Should Die Giving Life
Every single day, 452 women in sub-Saharan Africa die from pregnancy-related causes; that's 18 women every hour. Read more »
January 22
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Senegal: Senegal Seeks to Curb Baby Boom
A 25-year-old mother of five hailing from Senegal's eastern Tambacounda province believes that contraceptives damage the womb and cause health problems in the long term, such as a... Read more »
January 11
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Zimbabwe: Morphine Kills Pain but Its Price Kills Patients
It took Gily Ncube's daughters two weeks to sell enough chickens to raise the 18 dollars needed to buy the morphine tablets their mother takes every four hours. Read more »
January 9
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Sierra Leone: Unemployed Youth Turn to Drugs
The air is heavy with the smell of marijuana as Gibrilla (23) expertly rolls a large joint at the Members of Blood (M.O.B) gang base in a poor neighbourhood of Sierra Leone's... Read more »
December 29, 2012
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Angola: Nation Revives Family Farms
"We never used to eat carrots, but now we like them," said Rebeca Soba, admiring her vegetable garden, an island of diversity in the midst of a vast sugarcane plantation. Read more »
December 28, 2012
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Senegal: Grandmothers Taking the Lead Against Female Genital Mutilation
In the southern Senegal village of Kael Bessel, female genital mutilation is no longer a taboo subject. Sexagenarian Fatoumata Sabaly speaks freely about female circumcision and... Read more »
December 22, 2012
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Africa: Africa's Mobile Health Revolution
A nurse working in a remote clinic in Mueda, a small town in northern Mozambique's Makonde Plateau, receives a shipment of vaccines from the national health department. Using... Read more »
December 14, 2012
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Tanzania: Saving Tanzania's Poorest Children
Half asleep, Anuary lies exhausted on his bed in Amana Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's capital. His mother, Mariam Saidi, sits on the edge of his mattress, staring blankly... Read more »
December 2, 2012
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Zimbabwe: Education Is Where HIV Care Begins
When Shorai Chitongo founded Ray of Hope, a support group for female survivors of domestic violence in 2005, she discovered that three-quarters of the survivors in the group were... Read more »
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Nigeria: Combating Gay Stigma Critical in Fight Against Aids
As the international community comes together on Dec. 1 to celebrate World AIDS Day, a new report from UNAIDS reveals that while significant progress has been made in preventing... Read more »
December 1, 2012
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Cote d'Ivoire: Anti-Gay Stigma Hinders Bid to Lower Côte d'Ivoire's HIV Rate
When Emmanuel Kokou, a 28-year-old sex worker, moved from his native Togo to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2010, he knew there was a good chance that he had previously been... Read more »
November 30, 2012
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Kenya: The Price of Ignoring the Sexuality of Kenya's HIV-Positive Youth
It all started with a fight, one that would change his life forever. Read more »
November 27, 2012
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Africa: Development Targets Ride on Vitamins
One hundred and ninety million - that's more than the populations of Germany, France and Poland combined. It is also the number of children affected by vitamin A deficiency around... Read more »
November 26, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: Fighting Threatens Children
Humanitarian agencies working in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been overwhelmed following a massive displacement triggered by fighting between the... Read more »
November 15, 2012
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Uganda: No Contraceptives Means More Illegal Abortions in Uganda
Every day at least five women are brought to the gynaecological ward of Uganda's Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala for treatment for complications caused by crude... Read more »
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