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20-11-2009
Tribals in central India have adopted hygienic practices. For the first time ever, villagers own a house with its very own toilet, which is no mean achievement for the country, where 60% homes do not have toilet facilities.
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19-11-2009
WHO is targeting to eradicate polio from Afghanistan within next two years. Much of it will depend on how smoothly the agency is able to carry out its six-round immunisation drive.
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Image: An Afghan health worker dropping polio vaccine into the mouth of a child during a vaccination campaign in Kabul/ Photo credit: Britannica
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16-11-2009
Man-made ponds created with the help of international agencies to provide clean water to villages are becoming major dumping grounds in Bangladesh. According to a new study, the release of arsenic into groundwater supplies from agricultural, industrial or natural deposits are threatening livelihoods and increasing health risks.
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Image: A Bangladeshi farmer shows the effects of arsenic poisoning/ Photo credit: BBC
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09-11-2009
Afghanistan's capacity to address the issue of infant and maternal mortality has taken a remarkable turn for the better in the past few years. Decades of war had left the country’s health system in complete disarray.
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Image: Zamina, a designated backup midwife for her extended Afghan family, demonstrates what she learned at a midwifery seminar/ Photo credit: Melanie Stetson Freeman/ CSM
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03-11-2009
A global plan to prevent and control pneumonia, the leading killer of children, has been launched jointly by UNICEF and WHO. The two UN agencies say more than five million children can be saved over next six years if a comprehensive plan to tackle the disease is adopted worldwide.
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15-10-2009
First case of cancer cells crossing the placental barrier has been confirmed after a baby was born to a woman with leukaemia. Failure of the infant's immune system to recognise foreign cells has established that in rare cases cancer can be transmitted in the womb.
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Image: Scientists have found that cancer can be passed from mother to foetus/ Photo credit: Science Photo Library/ Guardian
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05-10-2009
India has made little progress in controlling child mortality, according to international child right group Save the Children. Its new report to be released today says two million children die below the age of five in India annually.
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28-09-2009
Dalit community in Nepal was particularly susceptible to various kinds of diseases because their houses did not have stoves and toilets. All that is now changing with the untiring effort from a Member of Parliament, who also happens to be a gay, writes Sudeshna Sarkar.
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27-09-2009
At least 10 million people in developing nations, including Nepal in South Asia, will get access to free healthcare, in an aid deal spearheaded by UK PM Gordon Brown. In Nepal, infant and child mortality rates are very high.
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Image: Malawi is one of the countries to benefit from the aid deal/ Photo credit: AFP
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25-09-2009
A team of American and Thai researchers has achieved a major breakthrough in developing an experimental HIV/AIDS vaccine. Conducting a clinical trial on more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, scientists found the risk of infection reduced by almost one-third.
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Image: Thailand's minister for public health Witthaya Kaewparadai (R) with US ambassador Eric G. John during a news conference in Bangkok/ Photo credit: Chaiwat Subprasom/ Reuters
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