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World Care Council wrote to Kenya's National TB Programme manager, about the two TB Patients in Kenya being sentenced to 8 months in prison for not taking their tablets as prescribed. World Care Council has sought clarification on this from the National TB Programme Manager in Kenya.

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We need new tools to fight TB. With the currently available over-40-yrs old diagnostic tools, just 61% of TB cases get diagnosed globally AND close to 40% of the cases go undetected...

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Today, 10 years after setting the Millennium Development Goals, many developing countries like Zambia are nowhere near to meeting the goals. One of the challenges is that national governments are not fulfilling the Abuja Declaration of 2001 in which African states made the commitments of allocating 15% of their national budget to the health sector.

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A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter have "recombinant" viruses that might threaten both treatment and prevention efforts. A and D are the most common nationally but 29 percent of research participants had "recombinant" forms of HIV called A/D and D/A - evidence that re-infection has occurred.

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Gender inequality is threatening Cambodia's chances of achieving several of the Millennium Development Goals. Increasingly women are standing up and demanding equality and visibility. But in order to achieve gender equality, men also need to take responsibility for their actions and demand to see a fairer society in which all genders are treated with respect.

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Live sex on screens and the provocatively posed pictures of naked women and men create an imagery that gradually builds up in young people's minds and can end up hooking them into addiction.

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