Monday, 29 November 2010

MALNUTRITION: Spirulina

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Hazem Badr 23 November 2010 Can spirulina transform from a gourmet ingredient in the West to a nutritious food source for the developing w...

POVERTY: Slow progress on land-grabbing regulation

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Photo: David Swanson/IRIN Stronger regulation and transparency is now neededBANGKOK, 29 November 2010 (IRIN) - As wealthy investors cont...

POVERTY: Land grabbing by foreign investors

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“Land Grabbing” by Foreign Investors in Developing Countries: Risks and Opportunities Joachim von Braun and Ruth Meinzen-Dick   a detai...

MALARIA: Impact of national malaria control scale-up programmes in Africa: magnitude and attribution of effects

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Richard W Steketee and Carlos C Campbell Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa Malaria Journal 2010, 9:299doi:10.1186/1475-...

Malaria in Africa: progress and prospects in the decade since the Abuja Declaration

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Robert W Snow and Kevin Marsh; Malaria is a global health problem but more than 70% of the total morbidity is in Africa.1 10 years ago, hea...

MALARIA: Sierra Leone - nets without the Global Fund

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 Bill Brieger 28 Nov 2010 Widespread efforts to scale up insecticide treated net ownership to meet 2010 Universal Coverage targets are un...

MALARIA: rectal treatment route for pre-referral emergency malaria treatment

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Knowledge and acceptability of the rectal treatment route in Laos and its application for pre-referral emergency malaria treatment Southiso...

MALARIA: Sierra Leone to distribute three million mosquito nets

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FREETOWN — Sierra Leone health workers Friday began a massive campaign to distribute three million mosquito nets in an effort to cut malaria...
Friday, 26 November 2010

POVERTY: Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Rwanda

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Agricultural development strategies that are put forward by individual African countries delineate priorities for actions to enhance agricul...

POVERTY: UN Reports Bolivia Still Suffers From Extreme Poverty and Exclusion

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Despite the reforms adopted by the Bolivian Government to end discrimination against indigenous people and other vulnerable groups, most of ...

Why 300 million more people are suddenly poor

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By Jina Moore, November 17, 2010 Kigali, Rwanda In November, 300 million more people around the world were suddenly poor – on paper, at ...

POVERTY: Quarter of Spanish children at risk of poverty

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 Nov 17, 2010 One in four children in Spain live in homes at risk of poverty, Unicef said Tuesday in a report that identifies the offspring...

POVERTY: Poverty reduction falls victim to crisis: World Bank

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Nov 19, 2010 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank disbursed some $80.6 billion in 2009 and 2010 to soften the blow from the economic crisi...

MALARIA: From fever to anti-malarial: the treatment-seeking process in rural Senegal

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Background Currently less than 15% of children under five with fever receive recommended artemisinin-combination therapy (ACT), far short o...

MALARIA: Congenital and Neonatal

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Congenital Malaria due to Chloroquine-Resistant Plasmodium Vivax: A Case Report Neonatology Unit, Mohan Children Hospital, Kanpur, India ...

MALNUTRITION: Afghanistan : scale, scope, causes, and potential response

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This book has the potential to contribute to a reversing of this trend, whereby activities in not only the health sector but also in other s...

MALNUTRITION: Niger: Malaria and Malnutrition—a Deadly Spiral

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November 15, 2010 Niger 2010 © Halimatou Amadou Mothers and their children wait inside the outpatient nutritional rehabilitation center...

MALNUTRITION: Central Somalia

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At least six children below the age of nine years have reportedly died of malnutrition related diseases in central somalia’s Hiiraan region....

POVERTY: Venezuela: Two Indigenous Groups Suffer From Malaria, Tuberculosis And Malnutrition

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Two indigenous groups in Venezuela are being hit by serious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and malnutrition, health experts reported...

MALNUTRITION: Northern Uganda

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The guns are now silent in Northern Uganda and people resettling in their home villages after spending over two decades in Internally Displa...