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<title>Africa: Powell Speaks for Africa At ThisDay Festival</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191738863</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 21:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to talk on the Festival&apos;s theme of &quot;Africa Rising&quot;. The first leg of the Festival  ...  Israel and its Arab neighbours; in Sudan, Congo and Liberia; in the Balkans, Cyprus, Haiti,  ...  on the Board of Directors of Revolution Health Group, a company developing strategies for consumer-directed  ...
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<title>Researchers document world&apos;s mammals in crisis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191723743</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 20:31 GMT</pubDate>
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... From majestic African elephants to tiny and often unappreciated rodents,  ...  is the first comprehensive look at the health of terrestrial and marine mammals across the  ...  Central and South America, west, east and central Africa, Madagascar, and in south and Southeast Asia.  ...
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<title>AIDS: A timeline</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191716423</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 20:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for their discovery of  ...  to humans after a bushmeat hunter in Western-Central Africa is bitten by an infected animal or  ...
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<title>Africa: Rolling Back Malaria</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191714969</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 19:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to the web 6 October 2008 Four african countries have cut malaria deaths by half  ...  and advances in disease surveillance. A World Health Organisation report last week said Rwanda, Tanzania, Eritrea, Sao Tome and Principe have  ...
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<title>Canadian program provides care to HIV-positive pregnant women, aims to reduce mother-to-child transmission</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191712173</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 19:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  for the pregnant women to receive future health care for their children and additional support  ...  from places such as London, Paris, Scotland, Cameroon and Botswana have been made to MacGillivray  ...  the women he sees are immigrants from Africa. He said many of them are &quot;middle  ...
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<title>The new war against TB</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191711475</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 19:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to countries as diverse as Cambodia, Siberia, Rwanda and India, documenting the depredations of XDR-TB  ...  is back with a vengeance. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that every year TB  ...  when Time magazine sent him to South Africa to cover Aids. The government was still  ...
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<title>Fatal bleeding disease has S Africa on alert</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191709068</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 19:27 GMT</pubDate>
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... Fatal bleeding disease has S Africa on alert South African health authorities are on high alert after three  ...  infected and a 2006 outbreak in neighbouring Congo infected 264 people, killing 187. Marburg has  ...
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<title>S.Africa on alert after fatal bleeding sickness</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191706893</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 19:14 GMT</pubDate>
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... JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African health authorities are on high alert after three  ...  infected and a 2006 outbreak in neighboring Congo infected 264 people, killing 187. Marburg has  ...
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<title>Dar Move On Work Permits a Major Boost for EAC</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191706287</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 19:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  free movement of labour within the East African Community, will soon be a thing of  ...  in Bujumbura. The eight-day meeting in the Burundian capital was attended by members of the  ...  five partner states of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. However, the country, the largest  ...
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<title>Ugandan savings cooperatives not ready for prosperity challenge</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191706262</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 19:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the 1m Ugandan shillings Baylor College of Medicine-Children&apos;s Clinical Centre of Excellence at Mulago Hospital,  ...  Family planning programmes in at least six African countries, including Uganda, face &quot;serious&quot; disruption following  ...  rolled out in local governments in Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. &quot;This programme  ...
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<title>S. Africa on alert after Ebola-like bleeding sickness kills 3</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191704281</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 18:56 GMT</pubDate>
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... JOHANNESBURG - South African health authorities are on high alert after three  ...  infected and a 2006 outbreak in neighbouring Congo infected 264 people, killing 187. Marburg has  ...
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<title>Khama Steps Up War On Alcohol</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191703938</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 18:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the President (OP) has released a World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa Report, which urges governments in Africa to  ...  Regional Committee for Africa, held in Yaound, Cameroon, earlier last month. The report recommends an  ...
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<title>Ex-Colombian president to give free UOP talk - 10/6/2008</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191682157</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 16:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Ireland. 2004: Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. 2005: Sir Ketumile Masire, former Botswanian president,  ...  Botswanian president, and Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda. 2007: Gro Harlem Bruntland, the first female  ...  and former director general of the World Health Organization, and Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim  ...
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<title>Ex-Colombian president to give free UOP talk</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191682144</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 16:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Ireland. 2004: Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. 2005: Sir Ketumile Masire, former Botswanian president,  ...  Botswanian president, and Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda. 2007: Gro Harlem Bruntland, the first female  ...  and former director general of the World Health Organization, and Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim  ...
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<title>UN special envoy on AIDS in Africa kicks off three-nation tour in Kenya</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191664540</link>
<pubDate>6 Oct 2008 11:57 GMT</pubDate>
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... UN special envoy on AIDS in Africa kicks off three-nation tour in Kenya UN  ...  Kenyan President covered the Global AIDS and Health Fund and the importance of African representation  ...  three-nation tour, Mr. Lewis will be visiting Rwanda and Nigeria over the next two weeks. ...
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