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  • Bill Threatens Progress on HIV/AIDS 7 Nov 2009 02:50 GMT
    ... meeting on HIV treatment sponsored by the World Health Organization. The report criticizes repressive provisions in the ... medication. 1. ActionAid International Uganda Uganda 2. African Services Committee United States 3. AIDS and ... Global 6. BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights Nigeria 7. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Canada ...

  • Pan-African Malaria Conference Ends on Hopeful Note 6 Nov 2009 16:11 GMT
    ... A five-day Pan-African conference on malaria has ended in Nairobi, ... May in seven countries across Africa - Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. The president ...

  • Academy Award-Winning Actor Forest Whitaker to Keynote Symposium on Maternal and Infant Mortality in Africa 6 Nov 2009 16:31 GMT
    ... many mothers and young children die in Africa and will highlight innovative efforts to fight ... back to the Igbo tribe of eastern Nigeria. In a traditional ceremony, he was made ... Obama in his July 11 speech to Ghana's parliament. -- Dr. Grace Aldrovandi of Children's ...

  • World's Largest Malaria Vaccine Trial Now Underway In Seven African Countries 4 Nov 2009 11:14 GMT
    ... RTS,S, the world’s most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, is now underway in seven African countries: Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. The trial, which is expected to involve up to ...

  • Burkina to hand out 6.6m mosquito nets in 2010 2 Nov 2009 14:57 GMT
    ... Burkina to hand out 6.6m mosquito nets in ... main cause of death in the poor west African country, officials said. Burkina Faso health authorities plan ...

  • GSK's malaria vaccine into Phase III in Africa 5 Nov 2009 09:26 GMT
    ... GSK’s malaria vaccine into Phase III in Africa GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and its partner the PATH ... up to 16,000 children in total in Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, researchers announced ...

  • Nigeria records first swine flu case, but... 5 Nov 2009 15:00 GMT
    ... Although Nigeria has now reported its first case of swine flu, the country ... country is yet to be listed among African countries that have officially reported confirmed human ... cases of the H1N1 pandemic to the World Health Organisation (WHO), PANA reported Thursday. A Nigerian health ...

  • Leprosy - the age-old disease - spread globally from East Africa mirroring population and trade movements but has hardly changed over time, new research shows. 5 Nov 2009 08:10 GMT
    ... age-old disease - spread globally from East Africa mirroring population and trade movements but has hardly ... causes leprosy: European, Indian, East African and West African, with small variations between them. Stewart ... Institute of Technology, Lausanne In 1996 the World Health Organization (WHO) said it hoped to all but ...

  • Nigeria records first swine flu case in US girl 5 Nov 2009 09:34 GMT
    ... Nigeria records first swine flu case in US girl LAGOS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, said late on Wednesday ... infections have been documented, according to the World Health Organisation. Medical experts say the prevalence of illnesses ...

  • Nigeria records first swine flu case in U.S. girl 5 Nov 2009 10:37 GMT
    ... Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, said late on Wednesday ... infections have been documented, according to the World Health Organisation. Medical experts say the prevalence of illnesses ...

  • Five nonsmokers' paradises 3 Nov 2009 22:14 GMT
    ... the list that is not on the African continent. We've listed some others at the end. ... African country is at 5.5%. Like Ethiopia, Ghana is also fairly low on the international ... 13 to 15 smoke. 4. : This West African country is not only the most populous ...

  • Low rains, high risks 4 Nov 2009 04:34 GMT
    ... greater risk of malnutrition, according to the World Health Organization. Nutrition problems could start to emerge this ... year as a result. While harvests in Nigeria and Niger could be normal in some ... said one analyst. Recurrent drought and West Africa’s most devastating locust invasion in 15 years ...

  • Experts Unveil New Malaria Testing Kits 2 Nov 2009 21:36 GMT
    ... Kenya included. The other nine are from Africa, and the other one is Cambodia. They include Uganda, ... Cambodia. They include Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Madagascar, Benin, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana. Yet not all of them will be ...

  • Climate Redux. Adapt, mitigate or reduce risk? 6 Nov 2009 00:13 GMT
    ... that "aims to improve the capacity of African countries to adapt to climate change in ... storm scattered you? There was an in West African Agriculture in April 2009 (wmo.int). The expected ... respond to such for sustainable development in West Africa. The City of London launched in August ...

  • Leading Organizations Join Forces To Launch First Annual World Pneumonia Day 4 Nov 2009 09:51 GMT
    ... deadly impact in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where 98% of pneumonia deaths occur. It can ... Other activities will include week-long activities in Nigeria including educational events, policy briefings and rallies; ... in China, the DRC, Ethiopia, India, Malawi, Mali, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and ...


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