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<title>Africa: Link Between Crop Failure And Climate Change Often Missed</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180212261</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 18:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a profound effect on food security in Africa, as increasing temperatures and shifting rain patterns  ...  food,&quot; she explained. &quot;It also influences their health as people often buy cheaper food which  ...  need a nutritious diet -- the chronically ill, for instance -- this poses a problem,&quot;  ...
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<title>Parasitic worms could fuel Aids</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180211802</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 18:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  help explain why HIV has hit sub-Saharan Africa particularly hard. The study involving monkeys demonstrated  ...  take hold,&quot; Dr Ruth Ruprecht of Harvard Medical School, one of the researchers, said in  ...  the findings emphasised the need for public health measures to control parasitic worm infections in  ...
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<title>ARVs add 13 years of life - study</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180211801</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 18:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Publishing on Friday in the British weekly medical journal The Lancet, researchers report on 14  ...  the therapy had a better life expectancy. Still a big gap with general population Despite  ...  some two-thirds of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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<title>Congress OKs $48B for global AIDS fight (Update)</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180211557</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 18:09 GMT</pubDate>
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...  saving or prolonging millions of lives in Africa alone. The 303-115 vote sends the global  ...  the $48 billion, for American Indian water, health and law enforcement programs. While some GOP  ...  percent of pregnant, HIV-positive mothers with the medicine they need to keep their babies HIV-free,&quot;  ...
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<title>THRILLS AND SPILLS - CAUTION KEY TO THEME PARK SAFETY</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180206442</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 15:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  bruises from go-cart rides fill reports of health complaints kept by the state&apos;s Bureau of  ...  Many of the dead arrived with existing medical conditions, such as heart ailments or terminal  ...  to the Themed Entertainment Association, Busch Gardens Africa in Tampa pulled in 4.4 million visitors  ...
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<title>South Africa: Military Still &apos;Not Keen&apos; on Employing HIV-Positive People</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180204805</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 13:47 GMT</pubDate>
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...  along with two others, took the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to court in  ...  to Burundi next month but he has still had no word. &quot;It is frustrating because  ...  zi, said HIV/AIDS was not the only health reason for a soldier being disqualified from  ...
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<title>Military Still &apos;Not Keen&apos; on Employing HIV-Positive People</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180204797</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 13:47 GMT</pubDate>
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...  along with two others, took the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to court in  ...  to Burundi next month but he has still had no word. &quot;It is frustrating because  ...  zi, said HIV/AIDS was not the only health reason for a soldier being disqualified from  ...
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<title>Polio - Rotary Honours Yar&apos;Adua</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180204792</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 13:47 GMT</pubDate>
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...  The award, presented by Jonathan Majiyagbe, first African Trustee Chair of The Rotary Foundation of  ...  in 1995 to honour heads of state, health agency leaders and others who have made  ...  the progress being made in reaching more Nigerian children with the necessary vaccine and look  ...
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<title>South Africa:: Military Still &apos;Not Keen&apos; on Employing HIV-Positive People</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180204785</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 13:47 GMT</pubDate>
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...  along with two others, took the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to court in  ...  to Burundi next month but he has still had no word. &quot;It is frustrating because  ...  zi, said HIV/AIDS was not the only health reason for a soldier being disqualified from  ...
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<title>US Congress sends Bush expanded global AIDS program</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180203603</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 10:05 GMT</pubDate>
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...  fight AIDS and other diseases raging in Africa and elsewhere, sending the measure to President  ...  &quot;will allow us to significantly boost the health care workforce&quot; in countries hard-hit by AIDS  ...  the number of HIV-positive individuals receiving life-saving medicine.&quot; Bush had requested $30 billion for 2009  ...
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<title>Brown presses bishops over development</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180203133</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 09:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  yesterday that the UN millennium development goals will be missed unless international resolve hardens. Speaking  ...  also called for a &quot;green revolution for Africa&quot;, involving a review of agricultural protectionism to  ...  was optimistic that technological developments and new medicines a solution to the Aids crisis would  ...
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<title>This is Viewpoints for Friday, 25 July 2008</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180202301</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 09:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  spelling, grammar, style, length and content. Priority will be given letters that address contemporary local  ...  to Florida and Alabama, while the harmful health impacts stay in Georgia. The wiser solution  ...  and poverty are present where we, as African Americans, reside (Bellvue, Unionville). Why have not  ...
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<title>Shortfall In Current Funding Commitments To Halve Malaria Infections By 2015</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180201687</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 08:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  study published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine , malaria control goals can only be  ...  of GFATM funding has been committed to Africa, the continent with the highest malaria burden.  ...  research that enhances our understanding of human health and disease, together with commentary and analysis  ...
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<title>Congress Votes to Triple Spending for Global Fight Against AID</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180200848</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 08:09 GMT</pubDate>
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...  saving or prolonging millions of lives in Africa alone. The 303-115 vote sends the global  ...  the $48 billion, for American Indian water, health and law enforcement programs. While some GOP  ...  percent of pregnant, HIV-positive mothers with the medicine they need to keep their babies HIV-free,&quot;  ...
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<title>Africa: Why I Am Bothered by Neo-Colonialist NGOs</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180200446</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 08:08 GMT</pubDate>
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... Soon after the real colonialists had left Africa, a new breed of Western colonialists emerged:  ...  NGOs or bodies such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), mandated with providing impartial scientific  ...  and they want subsidies for setting up medicine factories in Africa, where ingredients, technicians and  ...
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