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Targeting men for HIV testing at World Cup games

by IRIN | 0 » | Jul1 10
NAIROBI - James, a 23-year-old football enthusiast in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has been playing a dangerous game during this ...
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How a life-long madness built Somaliland’s first teaching hospital

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun30 10
HARGEISA - Edna Adan Ismail became interested in health in the 1950s, seeing her doctor father struggle to treat ...
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Acute child malnutrition increases by 5%

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
DAKAR - Nearly 17 percent of Niger’s children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 5 percent increase over the ...
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Diabetes cases to double by 2030

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
DAKAR - Without a major breakthrough in preventing and treating diabetes, the number of cases in sub-Saharan Africa is projected ...
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Please manage the food better

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
JOHANNESBURG - A new global architecture to govern food security is urgently needed to reduce the number of hungry ...
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Seven cholera deaths in Kenya in a week

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun24 10
NAIROBI - Poor latrine coverage and unsafe drinking water are helping to fuel a cholera outbreak affecting parts of ...
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Surviving on a crust in Cairo’s expanding slums

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun23 10
CAIRO - For seven-year-old Ahmed Yasser, it is normal to have just a crust of bread to munch on ...
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Kakuma camp cuts child malnutrition

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun22 10
NAIROBI - Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed ...
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Installing toilets to reduce blindness

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun21 10
MAIDUGURI - Lack of access to clean toilets or an adequate water supply, living in close proximity to animals, ...
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Not spending enough on food

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun21 10
JOHANNESBURG - "Africa is now facing the same type of long-term food deficit problem that India faced in the ...

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