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'Father' of Aids Orphans in Kenya Dies

...as died at a time when one big question facing the continent is how to care for an estimated 10 million Aids orphans, a number expected to soar to 30 million within the next decade. Not only are many of these children usually abandoned and destitute, but many are themselves HIV-positive. "Nyumbani was D'Agost...

Impact of Climate Change in Africa

Africa is the continent that will suffer most under global warming. Past history gives us lessons on the likely effects of future climate change//. Of greatest concern are the 'large infrequent disturbances' to the climate as these will have the most devastating effects. In...

Diabetes - An Increasing Threat to the World

...he effects of Diabetes is necessary in the African continent because of limited regional health resources. Rapid changes in the social and cultural habits, like increasing urbanization and implementation of sedentary lifestyles, result in the increasing number of people developing and those getting prone to ...

The Deadly Duo – Why Malaria and HIV Coexist in Afric

...ck and one million dead, especially children. This continent is also grappling //with the largest number of HIV sufferers, estimated at 24.7 million in sub-Saharan Africa. The latest UN communiqué reported that 2 million people succumbed to the disease this year. University of Washington researchers have ma...

HIV Dementia Alarmingly High in Africa

... In the first study of HIV dementia on the African continent using rigorous neurological and neuropsychological tests, 31 percent of a small but presumably representative group of HIV-positive patients in Uganda were found to have HIV dementia, according to Ned Sacktor, M.D., a Johns Hopkins neurologist and se...

Australian City Fights Global Warming in a Unique Way

...the event. "This country is the driest inhabited continent on the planet and we face some of the worst aspect...ing," he warned. Per capita this vast Australian continent is one of the world's largest producers of carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to the war...

U.N. Envoy Calls for E.U. Health Plan To Help Tackle TB, HIV in Africa

... the two diseases are spreading rapidly across the continent and that African countries are unable to combat them without assistance. "We are providing antiretrovirals to as many people as we can in Africa, but they are now dying because of tuberculosis, which is curable," Sampaio said. According to Sampai...

Aborigines Century Behind the Health of Colonizers, WHO Report

... are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. The term includes both the Torres Strait Islanders and the Aboriginal People, who, together make up about 2.5% of Australia's population. The latter term is usually used to refer to those who live in mainland Australia, Tas...

African NGO Sets 20-million-dollar Goal to Fight Disease

...a private sector initiative to raise funds for the continent in the fight against the diseases that have claimed millions of lives in the world's poorest continent....

Alzheimers Incidence is Set to Quadruple by 2050

...est jump is projected for Asia. At the moment the continent has almost half of todays Alzheimers patients, at 12.6 million. By 2050, the region will have 62.8 million of the world's 106 million Alzheimer's, researchers at Johns Hopkins University say. When the worlds Alzheiemer population explodes, fro...

World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

... on the Arctic ocean in the north and the Antartic continent in the south. Since the ice is more "water ice", the Arctic Ocean is covered by floating ice or sea ice, called the Arctic Ice pack. In recent years there has been noticeable shrinking of polar ice. Scientists have warned that the Arctic ice cap...

Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care

...c health services. But many nations in the African continent are hard pressed for funds to rise to the challenge before them. Like elsewhere in the third world, visitors to Zambia could observe in the capital city of Lusaka hundreds of persons walking aimlessly along the roads, talking to themselves or sho...

Cultural Bias Against Women Hampering Fight Against AIDS in Africa

...ricans are infected with the HIV virus, giving the continent the worst AIDS burden in the world. Women make up 75 percent of HIV-positive Africans aged between 15-25. The PHR study concentrated on the two African countries with the highest HIV prevalence rates -- Swaziland, where an estimated 33 percent of a...

Now a Green Agenda for Mental Health

... mental distress has been highly successful on the continent but the UK is lagging far behind Europe there are only 43 care farms in the UK, none of which are directed at mental health, compared to 600 in the Netherlands and 400 in Norway, Mind says. Minds report presents the findings of the first ever stud...

Laura Bush in Senegal for Anti-HIV/AIDS, Malaria Campaigns

... and Mozambique during a five-day long trip to the continent which will also focus on education and women's empowerment. She is due to visit US-funded 15 billion dollar projects under the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was launched by President George W. Bush in 2003 and is due...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

...been an adequate explanation as to why Africa as a continent is experiencing an AIDS epidemic far in excess of any other region of the world with some African countries' prevalence rates exceeding 25 percent of the adult population and tens of millions dying from the disease on the continent. Talbott's new s...

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