Sunday, 24 July 2011

MALNUTRITION: Pakistan: Mobile clinics protect children from malnutrition

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David Youngmeyer, UNICEF SINDH PROVINCE, Pakistan (July 11, 2011) — The battle against child malnutrition in Pakistan's flood-affected ...

MANUTRITION: Ivory Coast: Ivorian infighting forces UN refugee relocation

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TAMBA JEAN-MATTHEW : July 14 2011 A UNHCR statement this week quoted refugees expressing fear for their lives due to fighting among armed r...

MALNUTRITION: Somalia: UNICEF Airlifts Emergency Nutritional Supplies to Drought Affected Children in Southern Somalia.

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Kim Lewis : Washington D.C. : July 14, 2011 Malnutrition worsens in children in southern Somalia with over one-half million suffering from...

MALNUTRITION: India: West Bengal: 24 infants dead in 72 hours in Murshidabad govt hospitals

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Murshidabad/Kolkata, July 11, 2011  26 children die in 3 days WB: 24 children die in 3 days Infant deaths: Mamata orders probe As many as 2...

MALNUTRITION: Somalia: Malnutrition crisis

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15/07/2011 Dr Hussein Sheikh Qassim works in the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Marere, southern Somalia. He spoke to us by phone a...

MALNUTRITION: Horn of Africa: MSF acts on malnutrition and drought

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11 Jul 2011 The announcement by one of the main armed factions in Somalia, Al Shabaab, that foreign relief organisations would be welcomed ...

MALNUTRITION: Explainer: The east Africa food crisis

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Mark Tran 12 July 2011 East Africa's most severe drought in 60 years has left 10 million people desperately short of food. But what ca...

MALNUTRITION: Somalia: Malnutrition rate of Somali kids highest in the world: ICRC

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14 July 2011 00:55 GENEVA: Malnutrition rates for children under five in Somalia now stand as the world’s highest as the country struggles...

POVERTY: Japan poverty rate hits record high in 2009+

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Jul 12 06:07 Japan's poverty rate in 2009 hit a record-high 16.0 percent, up 0.3 percentage point from 2006, as population shares incre...

POVERTY: India: Tribal people in India live in extreme poverty: author

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ELIZABETH JACKSON: Author and activist Arundhati Roy speaking there to the ABC's correspondent in India Richard Lindell. Richard Lindel...

POVERTY: Canada: Poverty comes with a high price

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Iglika Ivanova, Times Colonist July 16, 2011 Poverty comes with a high price : Failing to address the root cause is expensive in current ...

POVERTY: Africa must boost manufacturing to cut poverty: UN study

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(AFP) – Jul 11, 2011 GENEVA — Africa accounts for just one percent of the world's manufacturing and needs to boost the sector if it wan...

MALARIA: Intermittent Treatment to Prevent Pregnancy Malaria Does Not Confer Benefit in an Area of Widespread Drug Resistance

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Whitney E. Harrington et al.  Intermittent Treatment to Prevent Pregnancy Malaria Does Not Confer Benefit in an Area of Widespread Drug Re...

MALARIA: Tanzania: Yes, Reduce Prices of Malaria Drugs

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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam) : 14 July 2011 Researchers have come up with the shocking revelation that nearly a million people die from mala...

POVERTY: Horn of Africa: Forecasters warned of drought last year

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Mićo Tatalović : 14 July 2011  The drought is the worst in 60 years, according to the UN: Flickr/Oxfam International [LONDON] Forecasting...

POVERTY: ETHIOPIA: Great trek for water in the south

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BORENA (OROMIYA REGION), 19 July 2011 (IRIN)  Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN All in a day's work: Abdha sometimes makes the four-hour ro...

POVERTY: PAKISTAN: Preparing for the monsoon

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ISLAMABAD, 22 July 2011 (IRIN)  Photo: Kamila Hyat/IRIN Tents in Pakistan. The fact that many people live in indequate housing puts them ...

MALNUTRITION: HORN OF AFRICA: Poor Attention to Forecasts to Blame for Famine in Somalia

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NAIROBI, Jul 21, 2011 (IPS) - By Isaiah Esipisu  Children from families displaced by the drought line up to receive food at a feeding centr...

MALARIA: The Origin of Malaria: The Hunt Continues

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ScienceDaily (July 22, 2011) — The agent of malaria has been found in the greater spot-nosed monkey, also known as putty-nosed monkey (Cerco...

MALARIA: Severe Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Sabah, Malaysia

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EID Journal Home > Volume 17, Number 7–July 2011 Timothy William, et al. - Abstract The simian parasite Plasmodium knowlesi causes se...