After being infected at his local hospital, 7-month-old Akram passed the virus onto his mother, Nasiba, as she breastfed him. After Akram’s father disowned both mother and child. While poverty and stigma sometimes drives parents of HIV-positive children in Kyrgyzstan to put their children into state nursing homes, Nasiba has stayed with her son and now educates other parents and children affected by the virus.
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A resent study from researcher at the University of Arizona, AZ, USA, has investigated the role of hip born mineral density (BMD) in predicting a woman’s risk of breast cancer. The result suggest that combining information of BMD with the GAIL risk model could improve the prediction of breast cancer risk compared with the using the Gail risk model alone.
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'The WHO Guide to sanitation in natural disasters (Assar, 1971) summarized the essential aspects of environmental health management in disasters. These included the provision of emergency water and sanitation services; the burial or cremation of the dead; vector and pest control; food hygiene; and the assessment of the danger of epidemics following emergencies and disasters, etc. Thirty years later these aspects remain essential, though the needs, challenges and opportunities are greater.
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'Every year some 3.4 million people, mostly children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene. Over half of the hospital beds in the world are filled with people suffering from water- and sanitation-related diseases.
In 2002, participants in the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, made a commitment to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by the year 2015. The United Nations Deve more...
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Almost one tenth of the global disease burden could be prevented by improving water supply, sanitation, hygiene and management of water resources. WHO 2008.
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With more funding for large-scale treatment programs for HIV/AIDS, research on emerging policy questions related to treatment is increasingly in demand. In tandem with programs designed to step up access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and to deliver treatment through public-private partnerships, World Bank researchers are collecting and analyzing new treatment-related data to uncover evidence that could shape future health policy and improve the design of HIV/AIDS treatment programs
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'This publication, which consists of two parts, underscores the importance of population issues, including reproductive health, as a critical component of national efforts to reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs. The first part highlights key arguments on the benefits to be gained when governments make reproductive health and rights a development priority. The second part includes the 'Stockholm Call to Action', a list of practical ways to invest in reproductive health which was endorsed by a num more...
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