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Health & Wellness News tagged with Africa

Saving the African Child
Health & Wellness  (tags: babies, infant mortality, poverty, poverty, educating women, Africa, survival )

Naoko
- 9 days ago - standardmedia.co.ke
Dr Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija says what she went through after losing two children made her understand the pain other women undergo. She counts as an achievement educating disadvantaged women on simple ways to ensure babies survive the first 28 days after
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U.S. Electronic Waste Gets Sent to Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: africa, children, ethics, humans, usa, environment, pollution, mercury poisoning, government, risks, safety )

Caree
- 112 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Toxic trash sickens young scavengers in Ghana. Much of the e-waste in the Agbogbloshie dump comes from foreign countries, including the United States. Recyclers that buy it from government agencies ship it overseas in cargo containers mixed in with ...
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AIDS-Like Illness Found in African Chimps
Health & Wellness  (tags: chimps, africa, disease, health, illness, interesting, medicine, research, warning )

Teresa
- 126 days ago - yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com
July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have discovered that a species of African chimp can develop the equivalent of AIDS when infected with an HIV-like virus, a finding that could shed light on how the disease wreaks havoc in people. The researchers
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Sign Petition: World Pneumonia Day
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, humanitarian, relief, aid, Pneumonia, Africa, Asia, Central, South, America, vaccines, medicines, global, health, children, illness, disease, death, prevention, safety, treatment, politics, government, money )

Tom
- 179 days ago - change.org
Pneumonia is the #1 killer of children. Every 15 seconds a child dies from pneumonia. For the first time we have new vaccines to prevent these deaths and antibiotics to treat pneumonia - BUT THEY DO NOT REACH THE WORLD'S POOREST CHILDREN.
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Children Sanitation Alert Issued
Health & Wellness  (tags: Health, children, Africa, sanitation, disease, illness, death, prevention, risks )

Dee
- 198 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Millions of children's lives are being put at risk each year because aid agencies and governments make wrong choices about health care priorities.
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GLOBAL: TB and HIV Co-Infection Crisis a Bigger Threat
Health & Wellness  (tags: TB, HIV, co-infection, tuberculosis, africa, study, treatment, warning, risks, medicine, humans, death, government )

Madalena
- 244 days ago - plusnews.org
(PlusNews) - One in four tuberculosis (TB) deaths in the world is HIV-related, twice as many as previously thought, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Global TB Control report, released on 24 March, World TB Day, not
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Nigeria Buys Baby Poison Antidote - Nigeria/Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: nigeria, africa, babies, deaths, teething, medicine, doctors, antidote, kidney failure )

Chrissy
- 356 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Nigerian medical authorities are flying in 100 doses of an antidote to try and stem the deaths of babies poisoned by a contaminated teething syrup. The number of children who have died from kidney failure after being given the tainted paracetamol-based
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Surgeon Saves Boy's Life By Text - UK/Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: uk, britain, england, surgeon, congo, africa, surgery, Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF, amputation, sms, tect )

Chrissy
- 358 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy. Vascular surgeon David Nott helped the 16-year-old while working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Fron
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Can This Be Pro-Life?
Health & Wellness  (tags: abortion, Bush, McCain, Palin, Africa, women, rape, sex education, contraception, AIDS, bush, bushadministration, ethics, lies, healthcare, politics, children, disease, family, protection, prevention, women )

Rebecca
- 412 days ago - nytimes.com
The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world's poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox of a "pro-life" administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortio
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What a Tangled Web They Weave...
Health & Wellness  (tags: Africa, hoax, AIDS, research, risks, safety, society, abuse, AlternativeMed, disease, drugs, humans, illness, investigation, protection, warning, Billions of dollars, CDC, NIH, Military, genocide )

Gregory
- 552 days ago - brasschecktv.com
Professor Peter Duesberg doesn't accept the still-unproven (and some say dubious) theory that the group of diseases known as AIDS is caused by HIV. Not everyone buys the AIDS story as told by the media, the US government and the pharmaceutical companies.
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Ethiopia: Millions 'Risk Hunger'
Health & Wellness  (tags: Africa, Ethiopia, Starvation, United Nations )

Ben
- 555 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Six million children in Ethiopia are at risk of acute malnutrition following the failure of rains, the UN children's agency, Unicef, has warned.
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Over $ 15.00 Goes to Children International for Every Trial Taken From This Page
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, Sustainabililty, suffering, world, children, africa, asia, china, humans, Refugees&Relief, Refugees&Relief, child, children, family, health, humans, philanthropy, babies, children, disease, diet, family, healthcare, health, humans, medicine )

Dennis
- 559 days ago - marylandgreenpower.com
Here's a nice offer - MGPC will send Children International $ 15.00 when you order a free trial of the e-store from this site, whether you keep it or not, (that's 3 times what they give for leads from e-commerce sites!) Care2 also supports Children Intn
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Nigerian Court Postpones Pfizer Case to April 21
Health & Wellness  (tags: big pharma, guinea pigs, human trials, Africa, Nigeria )


- 592 days ago - news.yahoo.com
A Nigerian court Thursday adjourned to April 21 the case in which US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. is seeking to quash a government report on a controversial clinical trial by the firm. (See details of story in comment below.)
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Elephants, Geckos and You: Making the Sticky Connection
Health & Wellness  (tags: interesting, study, scientists, science, technology, tech, africa, world, health, healthcare, illness, medicine, news, research )

Gavin
- 640 days ago - ecoworldly.com
A joint team of MIT and Havard researchers were inspired by the sticky feet of the gecko to create a dissolving bandage that can be issued on soft tissue within the human body.
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Sierra Leone's Slum Medic - Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: sierra leone, africa, slums, medic, health, diary )

Chrissy
- 647 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Adama Gondor will be keeping a regular diary for the BBC News website about running a clinic in a coastal slum of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Here she discusses the challenges she faces in Kroo Bay, where shanty houses have been built on a rubbish
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