12/03/2008 -
Security forces to get wherewithal
Home Minister P Chidambaram?s second day in the ministry saw bureaucrats making desperate calls to the headquarters of the security forces asking them to re-send the list of basic wherewithal, which they had been asking for years to fight the terrorists effectively and for surveillance of the border.
Source:
Business Standard India
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/security-forces-to-get-wherewithal/0
0/57/342108/
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12/03/2008 -
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-12-03 16:43 Danish firm to give African children free insulin
PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The world's biggest maker of insulin on Wednesday pledged to provide diabetes care, including free medication, to 10,000 children in African countries to combat a hidden killer. Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk said it had a moral obligation to save lives in places where insulin was too expensive for families and aid efforts have focused on more prominent diseases ...
Source:
Interactive Investor
http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=7050951&subject=econom
ic&action=article
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12/03/2008 -
Climate change overwhelming disaster relief: agencies
POZNAN, Poland, Dec 3 (AFP) Dec 03, 2008 Climate change is overwhelming the capacity of relief agencies to cope with people made sick or homeless by natural disasters, humanitarian groups warned here on Wednesday.
Source:
SpaceDaily
http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/081203160012.o6yz8ul3.html
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12/02/2008 -
France's First Lady joins worldwide fight against AIDS
PARIS (AP) - France's glamorous first lady threw her considerable star power behind the global fight against AIDS on Monday, as the world tallied the victims of the HIV virus that infects a new person every 15 seconds. As ceremonies marked World AIDS Day, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy signed on to become a goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which said it ...
Source:
Daily Vidette
http://www.dailyvidette.com/news/2008/12/02/Features/Frances.First.Lady.Joins.Wo
rldwide.Fight.Against.Aids-3564527.shtml
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12/03/2008 -
Major AIDS conference considers impact of financial crisis
Puppets depicting US president-elect Barack Obama (right) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Dakar on December 2 during a march to remind the US and Europe of their promise to give financial aid to fight HIV AIDS. A major international conference on AIDS in Africa opens on Wednesday in Dakar amid fears that the global financial crisis could hit funding for the fight against the disease.
Source:
TODAYonline
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/290565.asp
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12/03/2008 -
Living with AIDS
Oleksiy Boyko Maksym Nikolayenko, an AIDS patient who also works at the government-owned Lavra AIDS Clinic at the Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, says Ukraine needs to make more progress in fighting the epidemic.
Source:
KYIV Post
http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/31580
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12/03/2008 -
Climate change overwhelming disaster relief
POZNAN: Climate change is overwhelming the capacity of relief agencies to cope with people made sick or homeless by natural disasters, humanitarian groups warned here yesterday.
Source:
Gulf Times
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=258587&
;version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21
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12/03/2008 -
Jirair Ratevosian: Zimbabwe Health Crisis a Regional Problem
A complete collapse of Zimbabwe's health system and sanitation infrastructure has given way to a major cholera epidemic spreading throughout the country. Raw sewage is running in the streets, and medicine is unavailable.
Source:
HuffingtonPost
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jirair-ratevosian/zimbabwe-health-crisis-a_b_14806
0.html
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12/03/2008 -
India's Hijra Community Promotes Safer Sex, HIV Awareness
Members of India's community of hijras -- pre- and post-operative transsexuals and cross-dressers -- who work as commercial sex workers are helping to promote awareness about safer sex and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, AFP/Google.com reports. According to AFP/Google.com, hijra sex workers often refuse to engage in sex unless the client uses a condom.
Source:
Medical News Today
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/131587.php
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12/01/2008 -
Bruni embraces role as AIDS ambassador
The French First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, today said that she would work to protect mothers and children against the HIV virus as a global ambassador for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Source:
Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/bruni-embraces-role-as-aids-ambas
sador-1043971.html
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12/03/2008 -
Disease kills SA man in Rio
Brazilian authorities are working to identify an illness with symptoms that were similar to that of arenavirus that killed a South African man in Rio de Janeiro.
Source:
News 24 South Africa
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2436834,00.html
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12/03/2008 -
Early settlers faced many dangers, woes
Mrs. Bessie Grassman Gill?s remembrances of Brazoria County as it was in the late 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century were not all idyllic.
Source:
The Facts
http://www.thefacts.com/story.lasso?ewcd=76be97d45b7c4138
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12/01/2008 -
AIDS diverting cash from more deadly ills, some experts say
HIV infection rate has been curbed in much of the world but still takes money away from fighting malaria, pneumonia. As World AIDS Day is marked today, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.
Source:
The Morning Call
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_aids.6691204dec01,0,4858740.story?track=r
ss
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12/01/2008 -
French first lady becomes global AIDS ambassador
France First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy attends a press conference in Paris to mark World AIDS Day by unveiling her new mission as the first ambassador to the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Source:
TODAYonline
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/290181.asp
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12/03/2008 -
Asian Chronicles
I have a friend who is currently trapped inside Thailand. He accompanied his sister, who's there on a government mission. Just prior to the headline-grabbing events in India, Thailand was also in the news. Protesters shut down the Bangkok Airport and my friend's "exit strategy" was...
Source:
Hartford Advocate
http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10788
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