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 Health & Wellness  Rebecca - 2 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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Children of Nigeria: Fears That Have Refused to Go Away
Health & Wellness  Kelli - 89 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com For most parents in sub-saharan Africa, the fear that their children would die before reaching five years is still a nightmare
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 Health & Wellness  Gregory - 142 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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 Health & Wellness  Ben - 145 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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 Health & Wellness  Dennis - 149 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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 Health & Wellness  Ananya - 161 days ago - cbc.ca Malaria is an infectious disease that kills an average of more than one million people every year, mostly infants, young children, and pregnant women. Most of those deaths are in Africa.
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 Health & Wellness  - 182 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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 Health & Wellness  Gavin - 230 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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 Health & Wellness Kelli - 231 days ago - canada.com "When you believe [in] witches, you don't go for a test," the elderly grandmother says. "People say you have to go to a witch doctor instead of going to the hospital."
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 Health & Wellness  Chrissy - 237 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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 Health & Wellness  Michael - 253 days ago - nytimes.com We saw a very drastic impact," said Dr. Arata Kochi, chief of malaria for the W.H.O. "If this is done everywhere, we can reduce the disease burden 80 to 85 percent in most African countries within five years."
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 Health & Wellness Michael - 257 days ago - nwo.info Mozambiquians who fought each other for years in a bloody civil war are processing their traumas in a unique manner by rebuilding their country together. This hopeful conclusion is drawn by Dutch-sponsored psychologist and medical anthropologist Victor
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Kenya: MSF Ramps Up Presence as Violence Continues
Health & Wellness Michael - 263 days ago - doctorswithoutborders.org A team consisting of two doctors, a surgeon, two logisticians, and a nurse are supporting the hospital in Eldoret and helping to distribute non-food items, such as plastic sheeting, blankets, and jerry cans, to people living in camps around the city.
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 Health & Wellness Michael - 263 days ago - mercycorps.org Sanam's tiny clinic is one of nearly 120 health facilities that Mercy Corps is supporting in Niger, the lowest-ranked country on the United Nations' Human Development Index. The people of Niger, already mired in poverty, continue to suffer from chronic un
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 Health & Wellness Michael - 267 days ago - irinnews.org Our group consists of several women, many of whom lost their husbands to HIV and are HIV-positive themselves. We run a nursery where orphaned children come and spend the day and get a meal;
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