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    AFRICA: Sub-Saharan sanitation targets “two centuries away” 

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    IRIN
    Published on 21st November 2011 09:59 PM

    LONDON, 18 November 2011 (IRIN) - It will take two centuries for sub-Saharan Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, according to NGO WaterAid, which calls on national leaders to commit 3.5 percent of their annual budget to ...

    ZIMBABWE: Typhoid spreads amid water shortage 

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    IRIN
    Published on 21st November 2011 09:52 PM

    HARARE, 18 November 2011 (IRIN) - A shortage of clean water and adequate sanitation in one of the most populous townships in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, have caused an outbreak of typhoid. Experts warn it could herald the resurgence of cholera.

    The Director of Health Services for Harare Municipality, Prosper ...

    SOUTH AFRICA: Calls for partnerships to prolong lives 

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    Admin
    Published on 29th July 2011 01:33 PM

    Pretoria - KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, has called on health professionals and community leaders to work with the department to help prolong the lives of South Africans.

    Addressing faith leaders, councillors ...

    SOUTH AFRICA: Motsoaledi set to drive ban on alcohol ads 

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    BuaNews
    Published on 20th July 2011 05:48 PM

    By Gabi Khumalo

    Johannesburg – Despite being criticized for his call to ban alcohol adverts, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has vowed not to back down until his mission is fulfilled.

    "I won't pull back on the issues ...

    SOUTH AFRICA: Give the gift of life, give blood 

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    BuaNews
    Published on 13th July 2011 07:09 PM

    Pretoria - KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, has made a compelling appeal to South Africans to join the community of blood donors.

    "Imagine for just two seconds, that your life hangs in the balance and the only people ...

    AFRICA: Malaria vaccine could have extra benefits 

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    VOA News
    Published on 13th July 2011 06:15 PM

    LILONGWE, 20 June 2011 (IRIN) - The malaria vaccine that has eluded medical science for decades is now within reach, with the final phase of clinical trials underway in seven African countries, including Malawi, where the disease claims 6,500 lives a year, most of them children under the age of five.

    Tisungane Mvalo, head of ...

    SOUTH AFRICA: Slumming it in Jo'burg 

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    IRIN
    Published on 8th June 2011 04:44 PM
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    JOHANNESBURG, 2 June 2011 (IRIN) - Johannesburg's abandoned and neglected inner-city buildings have become slum dwellings for thousands of people, many of them jobless migrants, who endure over-crowding, poor or non-existent sanitation and limited access to running water and electricity because of a lack of affordable alternatives.


    Slum living has health consequences Photo: Mujahid Safodien/IRIN

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    NAMIBIA: Mothers urged to have their newborn babies vaccinated 

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    NBC
    Published on 8th January 2011 06:57 PM

    The Regional Health Director in Namibia's Omaheke region urges mothers with newborn babies to take their children to health centres for measles and polio ...

    AFRICA: Defeating malaria "within reach" 

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    IRIN
    Published on 18th December 2010 03:45 PM
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    Nairobi, 15 December 2010 (IRIN) - Over the past decade, malaria control programmes in Africa have resulted in 200,000 fewer deaths per year, down from 985,000 in 2000 to 781,000 in 2009, states the World Health Organization’s World Malaria Report 2010, released on 13 December 2010.

    “We are saving ...

    The Losing Battle Against Tobacco 

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    Mie1
    Published on 2nd March 2010 03:11 PM

    Their products may be on most governments’ hit lists, but the London quoted tobacco companies, among the largest groups keeping farmers busy, are on most ...

    Now, a machine that can smell if you have cancer 

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    Mie1
    Published on 21st February 2010 04:30 PM

    London: British scientists have invented a machine which can “smell” cancer.

    Brainchild of academics at Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, ...