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Condom Promotion-Crucial To HIV/AIDS Prevention

...art of the survey, almost 3600 questionnaires were handed out of which 2640 of which were completed. Saliva samples were also requested to find out about HIV prevalence, and 2311 men agreed to provide these. Results showed that the rate of HIV infection was highest in Brighton, at almost 14 percent, and...

Hong Kong Choked by Growing Pollution Problem

...ches of water. Ten years after the territory was handed back to the Chinese, pollution is one of the biggest problems facing the former British colony as it bears the environmental consequences of China's rampant economic growth. For around a third of last year, Hong Kong's renowned Victoria Harbour was o...

HIV Awareness Increases as Condoms are Distributed in Gujarat Theatres Screening Porn Films

...itted diseases," he said. The condoms are either handed out by volunteers and NGO workers or sold at the ticket counter. In some theatres, messages regarding safe sex are printed on the back of the tickets and short films on the subject are screened before the shows. To make condoms easily available at an...

Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border

...n the 10 years since the former British colony was handed back to Beijing. Shenzhen is cheap, it's vibrant and it's close -- and crucially for many of those who regularly make the weekend trip, it's a good source of recreational drugs. "I'm so used to going to Shenzhen," said Ah Yan, 19, who often travels...

Indonesian Teenager Dies of Bird Flu

...autions when handling poultry. The first kits were handed out in Tenggulun Timur village this week in a high-risk area of West Java, officials said. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the virus has killed more than 185 people worldwide since the end of 2003, mostly in Southeast Asia. Vietnam this ...

Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...ation, the government of China has been some heavy handed family planning policies for some time, like the one child norm. The policy - which was launched in the 1970s - is aimed at controlling population growth in the world's biggest nation with some 1.3 billion people. Beijing allows urban dwellers t...

Brickbats And Bouquets For U.S Prison Healthcare In-Charge

...efore the sprawling medical operation is fixed and handed back to the state. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson appointed Sillen, 64, after Henderson concluded the state was incapable of fixing prison medical care on its own. He has been on the job a year and earns an annual salary and compensation pac...

The Plot Gets Thicker In The Woolmer Case

...tans former cricket coach Bob Woolmer, was in fact handed over to him by a person well known to him-bowling ...Ahmed and Talat Ali knew the person or persons who handed over the champagne bottles. This revelation comes from Pakistans media manager for the world cup, P...

Canadian Mountain Bikers Hit by Bacterial Infection

...ong the way, too," he said, adding race organizers handed out bottled water. It's difficult to determine what the source of the infection was, said Dr. Eleni Galanis, of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. "Campylobacter lives in the guts of animals and humans," she said, so infections usually stem fro...

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...each year's Carnival celebrations. Brazil also has handed out the morning-after pill and regular contraceptives at government pharmacies for years. Under the newly expanded program, regular contraceptives will be offered at commercial drug stores for sale at just $2.40 for a year's supply. Abortions are...

US Dentists Help Victims of Domestic Violence Smile Again

..." When the work was finished, a dental assistant handed Kauffman a mirror. "I was overjoyed," Kauffman said with a smile. "I feel beautiful. It's given me my self-esteem, my self-worth. It's given me my life."...

Annual Cancer Run Draws Huge Response in US

... people sported, even in some of the food. Vendors handed out free pink baggies of Sun Chips. After the run, Eileen McDonnell, 44, said she was first diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago, when her oldest child, Keira, was 8 months old. She had a mastectomy and was considered cured until two years ...

New Coffee Brand to Hit the Market by This Year-end

...The genetically modified caffeine-less variety was handed over to the Coffee Board by CFTRI officials at Mysore recently. The CCRI has also reportedly taken up the coffee genome sequencing project in collaboration with four other research institutes. The Department of Biotechnology (DBT)-funded project is...

More Cancer Testing Urged in Australian TV Studios

...ral working community. The panel's final report, handed down last month, noted that cancer clusters had been notoriously difficult to get to the bottom of. It noted a US study of 61 workplace cancer cluster investigations, in which most were found to have no plausible cause. The chair of the expert pa...

New Lifeline Express Train Inaugurated

The Indian Railways handed over the new five state-of-the-art coach Lifeline Express , the worlds first hospital on a train, to Impact India Foundation here today. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister for Railways Shri Lalu Prasad said that since 1991, Impact India Foundatio...

Two In One Drug For Smokers And Drinkers

...ng cessation drug varenicline , is posing to be handed out to alcoholics as well . The Pfizer manufactured drug, sold under the name Chantix, which has been used quite successfully by smokers , was tested to reveal the same effects in alcoholics too, of the furry kind, lab rats. Says Selena Bartlett...

Somerville, A Town Committed to Tackle Obesity Among Kids

...hool more appealing. Information brochures were handed out, bicycle paths were built and the number of racks for parking bicycles was noticeably increased. And to show its commitment, the town council decided to give its civil servants an incentive to work on their physical fitness. By going to the gym...

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...een paid to how they are used." "It's as if you handed a teenager a cell phone and said, 'make all the calls you like.' A lot of information gets transmitted, you might only be interested in a small amount of it, and you get a large phone bill at the end of the month." The main cost of using such devic...

Former US Vice President Al Gores Son Continues to Be Dogged by Drug Abuse Problem.

... on the burgeoning climate crisis, but his son has handed him a huge embarrassment by being hauled up on drug abuse charges. Orange County sheriff's deputies in Florida stopped Former US Vice President Al Gores son Albert Arnold Gore III on Tuesday for driving about 100 mph on southbound Interstate 5 in L...

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