Afghanistan's double-edged problem - AIDS and Heroin
...2003, to 14,000 in 2005. 'Forty to 50 percent of refugees use heroin and 20 to 30 percent hashish. There is a problem because production is always rising. The drug mafia, which could not be operating without protection at a high level, is everywhere and always wants to produce and sell more.' Zafar said. T...AIDS Cases In Sudan Increasing
...training program. Magaya said that the influx of refugees from other countries having a high prevalence of H...uct HIV/AIDS tests at reception camps of returning refugees and at the same time launch propaganda campaign at evacuation sites. The youth and students die in a...Clothes Treated with Insecticide Reduces the Risk of Malarial Infection
... in Nairobi and other researchers studied Somalian refugees living in camps in Kenya. The average household size in Kenya is 4.4 people, and only three percent of households have more than one treated net, reported the online edition of New Scientist. So Kimani and her colleagues decided to investigate ...WHO to Assist Local Health Services in Lebanon
... of the UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestinian refugees plans to support them with vehicle, supplies and other logistics. Measures, it said, have also been taken to step up regional interagency response involving WHO, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and other agencies. ...Six Reang Refugees Affected By AIDS
At least six Reang refugees staying in camps in North Tripura district have be...n the six camps there. More than 33,000 Reang/Bru refugees are sheltered in these camps, who crossed the border since 1997 following ethnic clashes between Rea...UNICEF To Help For The Betterment Of Refugee Kids in Chhattisgarh
UNICEF has offered to help the children of refugees settled in the makeshift relief camps of the Maois...e. Though the government offers free food to all refugees at relief camps, sources reveal that a majority of kids have been facing malnutrition and other seri...Epidemic Of Cholera Continues To Sweep Over Angola
... in the country's many slums inhabited by internal refugees who remain displaced after the country's devastating 27-year civil ended in 2002. The oil-rich Angola is in the midst of a petrol dollar fuelled building boom, currently spending billions of dollars rehabilitating infrastructure and communications. ...Exiled Tibetans In India To Adopt Organic Farming
... the Dalai Lama. There are over 100,000 Tibetan refugees living in India and some of them have taken around...ers is a well known fact now,' he said. Tibetan refugees grow several crops on leased land provided by the Indian government, including wheat, rice, corn and......ntonio, Texas, where a contingent of nearly 30,000 refugees from Katrina were channeled, psychiatrist Malathi Koli listens to a grandmother who says: "Doctor, I have 15 children with me and I don't know whose they are." Desperate parents wanting to save their children put them with her partially submerged ho...