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<title>First-Ever National Deworming Campaign Treats More than 5 Million Children and Pregnant Women in Rwanda</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185393120</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 09:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, joined Rwanda&apos;s Ministry of Health in launching  ...  Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, UNICEF, PAM, World Health Organization, and the Red Cross, dewormed 3.5 million  ...  that has made tremendous progress in combating HIV/AIDS and malaria. Combating neglected tropical diseases will  ...
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<title>Uganda: Home births hamper PMTCT programme</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185362966</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  number of Ugandan children becoming infected with HIV during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding remains high  ...  large and growing unmet need for paediatric HIV/AIDS services demonstrates the failure of our PMTCT  ...  310 ARV sites provide paediatric treatment. The World Health Organisation recommends that every HIV-positive child under one  ...
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<title>Criminalization of HIV</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185362296</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Courier (27/08/08) At the XVII annual International AIDS Conference in Mexico City last week, leading  ...  statutes that apply general criminal law to HIV transmission. In what many delegates referred to  ...  ostracized by their communities. According to a World Health Organization survey, roughly 25% of African women do  ...
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<title>ENVIRONMENT: KEEP IT REAL</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185361632</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  children are killed annually by ancient water-borne diseases such as cholera and dysentery, making dirty  ...  change, described by the head of the World Health Organisation in 2007 as a &quot;fifth Horseman of  ...  14 February 2007: Licensing policy fatal for HIV/AIDS sufferers  New Times (Rwanda), 17 January  ...
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<title>West Africa: WHO Raises Alarm Over Region&apos;s Floods</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185359088</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to the web 27 August 2008 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern over rising flood  ...  malaria, diarrhoea and other potentially fatal communicable diseases. &quot;West Africa&apos;s annual floods bring with them  ...  estimated 5 million people also live with HIV/AIDS in the region, whose health care is  ...
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<title>Thomas H. Weller, Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus, Dies</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185357036</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in 1994, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 16,000 cases  ...  positions with the U.S. Public Health Service, World Health Organization, and U.S. Agency for International Development. In  ...  projects range from the molecular biology of AIDS vaccines to the epidemiology of cancer; from  ...
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<title>Pan-Africanism and racial privacy, Part 1</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185333119</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 23:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Black Africa by the USA and the World Health Organisation (WHO). It has no answer to the  ...  to destroy our food security and autonomy; AIDS and newer bioweapons of mass destruction that  ...  we must import from them to survive diseases. If we are to match our enemies  ...
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<title>From Bangkok to the Beltway</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185111756</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 20:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  U.S. drugs&amp;mdash;including the Bristol Myers Squibb/Sanofi-Aventis heart disease drug Plavix, the Sanofi-Aventis breast cancer drug  ...  breast cancer drug Taxotere, and the Abbott HIV drug Kaletra&amp;mdash;threatens incentives for drug innovation. There  ...  consultation&amp;rdquo; or a &amp;ldquo;national emergency&amp;rdquo;? Most experts&amp;mdash;from World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan to USTR Schwab&amp;mdash;acknowledge that  ...
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<title>Calls for Hep B child vaccinations</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185075983</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 16:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  children in Britain against hepatitis B, a disease 50 times more infectious than HIV. Chronic hepatitis B can develop into potentially  ...  it. More than 15 years ago, the World Health Organisation called for countries to introduce childhood immunisation  ...
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<title>Nigeria: What Next in Battle Against HIV/Aids, TB and Malaria? analysis</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185038110</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the fore-front in the fight against these diseases is stepping up the battle with a  ...  Anambra State, Nigeria lost her husband to HIV/AIDS in 2002 and her life immediately took  ...  Other donors and partners participating include UNAIDS, World Health Organisation (WHO), World Bank, German Agency for Technical  ...
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<title>Calls for govt to introduce blanket hepatitis B vaccination</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185028468</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 11:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  against hepatitis B and finally comply with World Health Organisation guidelines. This latest bid to force a  ...  to introduce universal childhood immunisation against the disease more than 15 years ago, but the  ...  B is 50 times more infectious than HIV and affects more than 325,000 patients in  ...
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<title>Drugs &apos;slash&apos; Malawi Aids deaths</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185024104</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 10:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  year, Malawians were urged to take an HIV test Distributing anti-retroviral drugs in Malawi has  ...  7% of the 13m population affected. The World Health Organization estimates that 35% of those infected with  ...  drugs, which were rolled out in 2004. Aids is the leading cause of death for  ...
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<title>Extensively Drug Resistant TB Can Be Managed With Aggressive Treatment</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185007713</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 08:49 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of The Lancet . According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in three people in the  ...  weakened immune system, such as old age, HIV, and certain medical conditions. The normal treatment  ...  TB, the most drug-resistant form of the disease. It is therefore important that TB control  ...
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<title>Male circumcision not an easy answer for HIV</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185004372</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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...  not, and found the rate of new HIV infection to be roughly two-thirds higher among the  ...  is often equally sacrosanct. How is the World Health Organization, or national governments, going to persuade people  ...
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<title>South Africa: Adcock Ingram Lists on the JSE</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=184980493</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  drug portfolio, researched and developed in its World Health Organisation approved R&amp;D facility. Further strengthening the company&apos;s  ...  trends, such as Government initiatives to combat HIV/AIDS, sustained growth in the middle class and  ...
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