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Clinton to Launch 70m Dollar Hospital Project in Malawi

...truction of the modern hospital which will cost 70 million dollars," Local Government Minister George Chapond...aponda added. Malawi, where 60 percent of the 12 million citizens live below the poverty line of less than a dollar a day, faces an acute lack of health work...

Dog Fighting in the US: Bloody, Illegal and Booming

...for bouts organized on the street and up to half a million dollars for more elaborate dog fights overseen by illegal breeders. There are some 20,000 to 40,000 dog fight fans in the United States, who operate underground and use the Internet to help organize events. On Tuesday, Atlanta Falcons star quarterb...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

... still existed in a region estimated to have eight million people with HIV, a figure aid agency USAID says could climb to 40 million by 2010. "The population density in Asia is so great, with countries like India and China that hav...

China Closing in on US for Highest Number of Web-users

...rt seen Thursday. As of June 30, there were 122 million Chinese connected via broadband and another 40 million who regularly log on using dial-up or mobile phones, according to the report by the government-contr...

Ukrainian Town Under A Canopy Of Toxic Skies

... and can cause liver damage if ingested. About 50 million tons of cargo - 70 percent of which include dangerous substances like chlorine, nitrogen, ammonia and petroleum products - are transported by rail through Ukraine annually. This chemical blaze and health threat is sending jitters down Ukraine, where ...

Zambia to Get Anti-AIDS Drug Boost from Global Fund

...ambian government is also due to sign up to a five million dollar UNITAID programme to finance costly second ...t 34 countries have signed up as donors to the 300 million dollar fund, which is aiming to help treat an additional 100,000 child HIV/AIDS victims in the world...

Briton Set for Pacific Solo Odyssey to Highlight Warming

...times called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a 13 million square mile (34 million square kilometer) clockwise whirlpool of ocean trash. Savage will average roughly 30 miles (48 kil...

Shakira Set for Kids' Charity Gigs

... kids in need by unveiling a campaign to raise 200 million dollars to combat juvenile malnutrition and hunger...children die each year due to avoidable causes, 40 million children work and live on the streets. We want an active Latin America, that doesn't give up, united...

U.S President Defied-Senate Votes To Expand Child Health Insurance

...federal money over five years, enough to cover 3.3 million more out of as many as 9 million uninsured children. In order for this to happen, the plan would have to boost taxes on tobacco pro...

Mills Rejects Macca's 20m Divorce Settlement Offer

Sir Paul McCartney has offered 20 million pounds to his estranged wife Heather Mills in divo...tlement, but the latter is adamantly demanding 50 million pounds, if reports are to be believed. Earlier, it was believed that the couple settled their matt...

Beijing Legislator Calls on Government to Regulate Sexually Suggestive TV Ads

...on how such advertising should be judged. Over a million Beijing middle and primary school children started their summer holidays last week, and many spent a lot of time watching television, an pastime many parents are beginning to question. More than half of China's primary and middle school students sp...

Sleep in Mary, Queen of Scots Bed for 7,500 Pounds a Night!

...eat country house to weekend playground. A three million pound refit, supported by a 500,000 pound Historic... a business tourism market, which is now worth 911 million pounds a year....

Indian Government at the Crossroads in Implementing Anti-smoking

...lth problems in India were due to tobacco with one million deaths recorded annually as a result of tobacco-related illnesses. He has also proposed a ban on smoking scenes in Bollywood films....

India Requires Over $200 Bn to Provide Quality Healthcare

...h faster growth rate as it would require about 2.2 million beds and the investment needed for that is almost $77.9 billion, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) said in a presentation to the government. FICCI has suggested a five-pronged PPP (public-private-partnership) model ...

Russian Government Allocate Funds for HIV Vaccine Project

...mber of those being tested for the virus from 21.7 million to 22 million, Onishchenko said. Since 1987 when the first HIV case was reported in Russia, 388,871 cases have been registered, and women infected with the virus have given birth to 1,200 children. Among the most infected areas are the Moscow, Irku...

Fake Drug Factory Busted in Orissa

... Bolangir district and fake drugs worth over Rs.20 million were seized, police said Saturday. A police team raided a factory owned by Sankarlal Agarwal at Kantabanji town, over 400 km from here, late Friday and seized the fake drugs, district police chief Himansu Kumar Lal who led the team, told IANS. A...

Diarrhoea Claims Three Lives in Flood-hit Orissa

... least 30 people were killed and over one and half million were affected by the flood. The worst hit was Balasore district, some 200 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, where the floods killed at least 20 people and affected more than half a million....

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

... makers of painkiller OxyContin agreed to pay $600 million in fines and other payments to resolve the crimina...nding the drug. Together, they agreed to pay $34.5 million in fines. The hearing included statements by numerous people who said their lives were changed fo...

UK Reports Psychiatric Reactions to Weight-loss Drug Rimonabant

...cm-7cm. One in five adults in the UK - almost 10 million people - is clinically obese. The EMEA has said doctors in the European Union had been warned "of the risk of psychiatric side-effects" since June 2006 but it was now upgrading this warning. Any patient who develops depression while on the drug sh...

Orissa CM Orders Probe into Female Foeticides

...eral parts of the country that claims about half a million female lives each year, Mohanty said....

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