News from category: Health & Nutrition
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Many of Côte d’Ivoire’s hospital wards are empty, as people cannot afford treatment (file photo)
ABIDJAN, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) – Continued election delays and political turmoil have for years been used as …
Photo: Hassan Mahamud Ahmed/IRIN
Mogadishu residents call 777 and the base guides the ambulance crew to the scene (file photo)
NAIROBI, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) – The LifelineAfrica ambulance service was launched in Mogadishu in December …
Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN
The latest round of fighting in the Somali capital has entered the eighth day (file photo)
NAIROBI, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) – As the latest round of fighting in the Somali capital enters …
Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN
The latest round of fighting in the Somali capital has entered the eighth day (file photo)
NAIROBI, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) – As the latest round of fighting in the Somali capital enters …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …
Photo: Reinnier Kazé/IRIN
Health workers in the Far North region of Cameroon say malnutrition cases and deaths are on the rise
KOUSSERI, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) – Northern Cameroon, as in much of Africa’s western Sahel …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …
Photo: Eric Kanalstein/UNMIL
Activists say poor prison conditions could be detrimental to the men’s health
NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Kenyan government officials have defended the arrest and incarceration of two men infected with multi-drug …
Photo: Catherine-Lune Grayson/IRIN
Nigerien women have an average of seven children
DIFFA, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – The population of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is growing at an unsustainable rate, according …
Photo: Eric Kanalstein/UNMIL
Activists say poor prison conditions could be detrimental to the men’s health
NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Kenyan government officials have defended the arrest and incarceration of two men infected with multi-drug …
Photo: Eric Kanalstein/UNMIL
Activists say poor prison conditions could be detrimental to the men’s health
NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Kenyan government officials have defended the arrest and incarceration of two men infected with multi-drug …
Photo: Eric Kanalstein/UNMIL
Activists say poor prison conditions could be detrimental to the men’s health
NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Kenyan government officials have defended the arrest and incarceration of two men infected with multi-drug …
Photo: Action contre la Faim
A woman and her children in western Chad, where UN agencies, aid groups and the government are working to tackle soaring malnutrition
DAKAR, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) – In parts of …
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90 percent – an estimated 35,000 – of Somalia’s severely malnourished children are concentrated in the south-central region
NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) – Two million Somalis, an estimated 27 percent of the total …
Photo: Kate Thomas/IRIN
Children athte Gantauda kindergarten develop their motor skills on the balancing beam
GANTAUDA, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) – In the village of Gantauda, 90km from Guinea-Bissau’s capital, Bissau, a child’s third birthday is …
