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<title>EIN News: East Africa Health News</title>
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<title>Emergent Biosolutions And University Of Oxford Form Joint Venture To Develop An Advanced Tuberculosis Vaccine</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180018069</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and the University of Cape Town&apos;s South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) in Worcester, South  ...  Institute. &quot;Curbing tuberculosis is a pressing global health priority, and if achieved could save the  ...  in Asia (Thailand, Laos and Vietnam) and Kenya, and work at the MRC Unit in  ...
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<title>AME Fifth District gets a new bishop</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180015986</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  assigned to the 17th Episcopal District encompassing African nations Zaire, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi and Zimbabwe. He most  ...  programs that included computer literacy training and health services for the needy at the Nichols  ...
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<title>Peters announces additional cyclone aid to Myanmar</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180015519</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:47 GMT</pubDate>
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...  request from the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) to redeploy a New Zealand military  ...  that genitally mutilated women in the West African nation of Burkina Faso find richer husbands.  ...  Guinea next week to help build a health clinic for some of the world&apos;s poorest  ...
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<title>Lachifarma labs present malaria drugs to KATH</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180015247</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  heath care delivery. He said being the African representative of the Italian company, it was  ...  by adults had proven very effective in East African countries including Congo, Angola, Uganda and Cote d&apos;Ivoire, and Artemal Comb (anti-malaria  ...
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<title>Malaria Millennium Development Goal Unlikely To Be Met</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180007012</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a view to tackling global poverty and health inequality. Goal 6 included the target to  ...  year, mainly children and pregnant women in Africa and South-east Asia. It is caused by  ...  Professor Snow, who is based at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Nairobi, Kenya.  ...
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<title>Drought is now the norm in the deprived north of Kenya</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180006708</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the norm in the deprived north of Kenya A toxic cocktail of factors, including successive  ...  poverty has the potential to devastate East Africa. Oxfam Cymru&apos;s Jonathan Tench reports on a  ...  living in and travelling many times to East Africa over the past seven years, I had  ...
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<title>Humanity Alert</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180004641</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Today 1st major Discrimination, The global women health and education crisis is the result of  ...  in Asia, South Asia, Mid East and African nations. It used to be said, That  ...
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<title> Why the bad mood, SA?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180000387</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 06:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  depressed. An annual opinion poll on South Africans&apos; optimism found that in February 2008 60  ...  more beautiful when a brilliant analysis on Ugandan population growth drew the following comparison: &quot;  ...  messy in Zimbabwe  good education and health that they could not afford but never  ...
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<title>AUSTRALIA&apos;S ROCKEBY BIOMED GETS ORDERS FOR HUMAN BIRD FLU TEST</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179999397</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 06:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  several South East Asian, European, and North African countries, worth A$242,000 (US$232,126), the company said.  ...  H5N1 since 2003, according to the World Health Organisation&apos;s website. South Korea has been hit  ...  times, although no person has contracted the disease. Rockeby said also that it had withdrawn  ...
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<title>Rockeby gets orders for bird flu tests</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179993737</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 05:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  several South East Asian, European, and North African countries, worth $242,000, the company says. Rockeby  ...  H5N1 since 2003, according to the World Health Organisation&apos;s website. South Korea has been hit  ...  times, although no person has contracted the disease. Rockeby said also that it had withdrawn  ...
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<title>Why the bad mood, SA?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179991999</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 05:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  depressed. An annual opinion poll on South Africans&apos; optimism found that in February 2008 60  ...  more beautiful when a brilliant analysis on Ugandan population growth drew the following comparison: &quot;  ...  messy in Zimbabwe  good education and health that they could not afford but never  ...
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<title>Albinos being targeted in Tanzanian witchcraft killings</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179991062</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 05:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  two more times Albinos being targeted in Tanzanian witchcraft killings In Tanzania, albinos such as  ...  in the past six months in the African country where superstition and sorcery are prevalent  ...  independence from Britain in 1961 and borders Kenya to the north and Mozambique to the  ...
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<title>First Ladies to Tackle Cervical Cancer</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179985860</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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... THE wives of African presidents should convince their husbands to make  ...  maternal health programmes a national priority, the Kenyan health minister, Beth Mugo, has said. &quot;Our  ...  represented Kenya&apos;s First Lady Lucy Kibaki, said East Africa had the highest prevalence of cervical cancer  ...
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<title>TB And Asthma Fight Stepped Up</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179985857</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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... Kenya is stepping up the fight against tuberculosis,  ...  and I guess in other parts of Africa, as evidenced by lack of large public  ...  seminar attended by representatives from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda. The medics lamented the  ...
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<title>Student Devises Solar Energy ECG Useful In Developing Countries And Troubled Areas</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179985146</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the time, he was concentrating intensively on Africa and had already built various technical devices.  ...  discover when he consulted a company in Tanzania that specializes in medical technology: &amp;ldquo;It should be robust, affordable and  ...
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