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Submitted by Babak Fakhamzadeh (MastaBaba) about 2 years ago
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Submitted by Babak Fakhamzadeh (MastaBaba) about 2 years ago
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Submitted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby) about 2 days ago
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. Read more...
Keywords: citizen news service CNS drug resistance extensively drug-resistant jail kenya M/XDR-TB MDR-TB multi-drug resistant prison TB tuberculosis XDR-TB
Submitted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby) about 1 day ago
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... Read more...
Keywords: citizen news service CNS diagnostics Dr Christian Lienhardt drug resistance extensively drug-resistant M/XDR-TB MDR-TB multi-drug resistant OPEN FORUM 4 research shobha shukla TB tuberculosis XDR-TB
Submitted by Gershom about 2 days ago
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. Read more...
Submitted by weziwe about 21 hours ago
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. Read more...
Keywords: recombinant HIV sub-types of HIV A and D Uganda
Submitted by Meghan Lewis (MLewis) about 3 days ago
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. Read more...
Keywords: Cambodia gender MDGs Millennium Development Goals rape Sex work sexual violence women
Submitted by kyeswa johnson m (johni) about 2 days ago
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. Read more...
Keywords: HIV pornography Uganda
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