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World News tagged with prevention

Britons Outraged Over US Conservatives Criticism of British Health Care
World  (tags: britain, nhs, conservatives, lies, socialist, healthcare, government, public, option, republicans, corruption, dishonesty, cover-up, americans, abuse, illness, disease, treatment, prevention, medicine, protection, safety )

Tom
- 96 days ago - voanews.com
Britons are outraged and speaking out in response to comments among Conservatives in the United States attacking Britain's national health care system as socialist, evil and Orwellian. Such criticism has sparked an outpouring of NHS support in Britain.
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Lead Poisoning Sickens 600 Kids in China
World  (tags: world, China, lead poison, contamination, environment, pollution, children, illness, health, prevention, protection, risks )

Dee
- 99 days ago - abcnews.go.com
More than 600 children have been sickened with lead poisoning in a northern Chinese province where authorities shut a smelter earlier this week thought to have caused the contamination,
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Sign Petition: Provide Water for the World
World  (tags: world, clean, water, sanitation, poor, health, prevention, protection, risks, safety, illness, health, humans, disease, children, rights, technology, science, government, obama )

Tom
- 163 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In his Inaugural Address, President Obama said, "let clean waters flow." With those words, he brought recognition to the suffering of 884 million people who do not have access to clean water and 2.5 billion without adequate sanitation.
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Take a Stand Against Wrongful Eviction
World  (tags: world, poverty, poor, shelter, homeless, water, sanitation, disease, suffering, health, harassment, corruption, discrimination, women, children, human, rights, safety, prevention, culture, humans, government )

Tom
- 163 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
For the more than 1.6 billion people suffering from some sort of shelter deprivation in the world, that future is bleak. Without access to adequate shelter, clean water or sanitation, upwards of 10 million people die each year from preventable diseases.
10 comments
Sign Petition: Would You Want to Lose Your Mom to a Disease That Could Be Prevented With a Vaccine?
World  (tags: world, africa, asia, medicine, treatment, prevention, rights, women, poverty, death, disease, immunize, health, cervical, cancer, vaccine )

Tom
- 182 days ago - change.org
500,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year. More than half of them will die because they are poor and their cancer will not be diagnosed until it is too late to treat. Most will live in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
28 comments
Sign Petition: Ask Congress to Improve the Lives of Children Worldwide
World  (tags: world, america, government, obama, congress, global, financial, crisis, UNICEF, children, health, disease, illness, death, treatment, prevention, protection, medicine, healthcare )

Tom
- 201 days ago - change.org
Despite significant progress in children's health, 25,000 children under five years old still die from mostly preventable causes each day. With today's global financial crisis, vulnerable newborns and young children face greater challenges than ever.
24 comments
Sign Pledge: Send Bed Nets to Refugees in Africa for World Malaria Day
World  (tags: world, africa, malaria, bed, nets, UN Refugee Agency, refugees, health, prevention, fundraising, rescue, humans, children, family, medicine, illness, disease, risks, safety, prevention )

Tom
- 214 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
From now until World Malaria Day, April 25, the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign is working with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to send 275,000 life-saving nets to protect African refugees from malaria--the #1 killer of refugees in Africa.
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Sign Petition: Help Children With HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
World  (tags: world, children, hiv/aids, africa, medicine, humanrights, humans, healthcare, illness, prevention, research, protection, treatment )

Tom
- 223 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Nine out of ten children living with HIV call sub-Saharan Africa home. Approximately three million children are themselves infected with HIV, about 90 percent of whom contracted the virus from their mother during pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding.
18 comments
Why Are Children Starving in a Booming India?
World  (tags: world, India, gender, caste, tradition, children, starving, hungry, death, government, humanrights, politics, food, disease, healthcare, prevention )

Tom
- 245 days ago - theglobeandmail.com
A complex masala of gender, caste, tradition and politics keeps babies hungry. After 15 years of rapid growth, India has made no progress on childhood malnutrition, unlike many poorer nations. Its culture poses many special obstacles.
13 comments
The World Only Needs 30 Billion Dollars a Year to Eradicate the Scourge of Hunger
World  (tags: UnitedNations, world, politics, prevention, hunger crisis )

Josee
- 488 days ago - fao.org
In an impassioned speech at the opening of the Rome Summit called to de-fuse the current world food crisis, Dr Diouf noted that in 2006 the world spent US$1 200 billion on arms while food wasted in a single country could cost US$100 billion...
43 comments
Chinese Police Drag Grieving Parents From Protest
World  (tags: children, safety, prevention, protection, destruction, suffering, world, china, ethics, death )

Ginger
- 536 days ago - news.yahoo.com
As if they can't look any worse than the US......DUJIANGYAN, China - Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents Tuesday while they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last month's earthquake.
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GLOBAL: Eat Local Produce, Help Farmers, Says FAO
World  (tags: UnitedNations, food, FAO, agricultural production, warning, prevention, politics )

Madalena
- 588 days ago - irinnews.org
JOHANNESBURG, 11 April 2008 (IRIN Africa) - Rely more on local produce to cut food import bills and provide subsidised inputs to boost production, advised the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as it announced measures to help poor cou
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Loads of Chinese Wheat Gluten Stopped at Border
World  (tags: health, humans, illness, prevention, protection, safety )

Karen
- 788 days ago - thedailygreen.com
The crackdown begs a fundamental question. If we're finding so much tainted product when we look, what is it that we're not looking for? What's the next melamine?
1 comment
Male Circumcision Quite Effective Against AIDS
World  (tags: aids, africa, healthcare, treatment, prevention, united nations )

J.
- 959 days ago - sfgate.com
World Health Organization.--Millions of lives could be saved in Africa, U.N. says."The evidence is now quite conclusive,''stated Dr. Kevin De Cock,director of the Department of HIV/AIDS for the World Health Organization.
45 comments
   

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