Global News Blog / IPSMonday, May 19, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, May 19 (IPS) – Even before Cyclone Nargis tore through Burma’s populous Irrawaddy Delta, the country’s public health system was ailing. It struggled to survive on a slow drip of funds from the state’s coffers. [...]
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Where Have the Piglets Gone?
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Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Kathryn Strachan JOHANNESBURG, Apr 29 (IPS) – Each psychiatric patient leaving Tower Hospital in the Eastern Cape Province under a new project to integrate patients into the community is sent home with two piglets. While at [...]
AFRICA: South Africa Welcomes Cuban Doctors
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Global News Blog / IPS Monday, April 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Stephanie Nieuwoudt CAPE TOWN, Apr 28 (IPS) – For more than a decade, Cuban doctors have filled part of a gap left by South African doctors who in large numbers leave the country looking for better [...]
ARGENTINA: Training Health Agents to Reduce Child Mortality
April 28, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Monday, April 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Apr 28 (IPS) – An ambitious new programme for training health agents to help reduce infant mortality in small rural communities and indigenous villages, launched by one of Argentina’s best-known human rights [...]
HEALTH: Malaria Campaigns Ramp Up Focus on Bed Nets
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Global News Blog / IPS April 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Mirela Xanthaki UNITED NATIONS, Apr 25 (IPS) – With a million people a year still dying from malaria, the United Nations is leading a new campaign to provide universal coverage of essential malaria control measures — particularly [...]
HEALTH-TANZANIA: A Hazardous Route to the Cradle
April 25, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS April 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Sarah McGregor DAR ES SALAAM, Apr 25 (IPS) – Tatu Shabani Tumbo’s first born was diagnosed with strength-sapping anaemia, and died a toddler. Doctors had no medical explanation for the sudden death of her second child at age [...]
HEALTH-DRC: Water Everywhere, But Is It Safe To Drink?
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HEALTH-DRC: Water Everywhere, But Is It Safe To Drink? Global News Blog / IPS April 24, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Michael Deibert KINSHASA, Apr 24 (IPS) – The rain falls in battering sheets, rolling eastward along the Congo River through Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [...]
AFRICA: Millions of Children Falling Through the Cracks
April 21, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS April 21, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Apr 21 (IPS) – A significant proportion of the world’s 2.2 billion children, many of whom are victims of violence, sexual abuse, labour exploitation and preventable diseases, are from the crisis-plagued African continent. [...]
