News from category: Health & Nutrition
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Rift Valley Fever threatens livestock
JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) – An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in two South African provinces has killed one person, while five others have tested positive …
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A refugee peels a papyrus reed, one of the initial stages in the production of the Makapads sanitary pads at Kyaka II refugee settlement, southwestern Uganda
KYAKA II, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) – …
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A medical officer attends to a patient: Officials say the number of people seeking mental health treatment has increased despite Bosasso having only one small health unit (file photo)
BOSASSO, 9 March …
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Food security solves many ills
MBABANE, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) – The myriad crises afflicting Swaziland can only be solved with a holistic approach, not a piecemeal one, the World Food Programme …
NAIROBI, 5 March 2010 (IRIN) – Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the …
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Mariama Adao and her last-born child
AGADEZ, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – Mariama Adao, aged 40 and a mother of eight, makes the 400km journey from Matameye in the south of Niger …
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Hundreds of migrants from southern Niger are camped out in Agadez
AGADEZ, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – The unusually large-scale migration of southern Nigerien farmers and pastoralists, heading north to look …
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Hujale Jama is one of thousands of people in Bossaso who have been displaced by drought and have moved to urban centres where they depend on relatives
BOSASSO, 2 March 2010 (IRIN) – …
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As many as 130,000 Tanzanian women fall pregnant every year; many of these are unwanted pregnancies
DAR ES SALAAM, 1 March 2010 (PlusNews) – A Tanzanian project is integrating family planning and HIV …
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A child who underwent treatment for malnutrition, during a follow-up visit by Helen Keller International (file photo)
DAKAR, 25 February 2010 (IRIN) – Nutrition experts in Guinea are studying options for treating …
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Ade Sheikdon Negeye’s hands
BELETWEYNE, 24 February 2010 (IRIN) – Displaced and ostracized, his drug supply cut off because of conflict, Ade Sheikdon Negeye, a resident of the town of Beletweyne in central …
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Children at a past polio vaccination: Nine million children are being vaccinated countrywide in a project run by the Ministry of Health, with the UN Children’s Fund and World Health Organization (file …
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A child is vaccinated against measles
HARARE, 22 February 2010 (IRIN) – A measles outbreak has hit 28 of Zimbabwe’s 62 districts and is still spreading, but efforts to vaccinate people in …
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ECHO/MSF 2009 meningitis campaign; 2010 outbreak weeks earlier (file photo)
DAKAR, 22 February 2010 (IRIN) – A meningitis epidemic has struck earlier than usual and is spreading across sub-Saharan Africa’s “meningitis belt” from …
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Constitutional crisis thickens (file photo)
NIAMEY, 18 February 2010 (IRIN) – Small vendors abandoned their stalls as the typical lunch hour break opened with gunfire at the presidential palace shortly after 1pm …
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Constitutional crisis thickens (file photo)
NIAMEY, 18 February 2010 (IRIN) – Small vendors abandoned their stalls as the typical lunch hour break opened with gunfire at the presidential palace shortly after 1pm …
