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A Unique Train To Spread Awareness About AIDS

...h volunteers who will from each station fan out to villages on bicycles to spread awareness about AIDS and how...volunteers, who will fan out on bicycles to nearby villages to create awareness through one-to-one interactions, street theater and other interpersonal communic...

Elephantiasis Is Eliminated In Egypt Due To Mass Drug Administration

...eda Ramzy of Ain Shams University, Cairo, surveyed villages in two area of Egypt and found that all measures of infection and transmission fell sharply with drug use. Weil said that the aim of the Egyptian campaign to eliminate LF, which was implemented by the Egyptian Ministry of Population and Health, has a...

Chicken takes a walk round the country side !

...respite for those going on a one way ticket to the villages and towns. Families in these small towns have enough reason to make merry under the moon light with plenty of chilly chicken, and cheer! ...

Rural India To Benefit From New Diabetes Project

...in with, the project would be implemented in a few villages at Chunampet in Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), National Agro Foundation (NAF) and C. Ramakrishna, a noted philanthropist and an eminent lawyer have agreed to extend their co-operation for the project. ...

Spurious Liquor Claims 13 Lives In Orissa

...of other people in the locality. I too visited the villages Sunday night," Tripathy said. The death toll and the number of those who were ill could go up, he said, adding that it was not clear whether the affected people had consumed spurious liquor from one outlet or several outlets. The villagers were...

Bird-Flu: A Child and Two Adults, Quarantined At Jalgaon

...Stringent surveillance has started in all the four villages that had reported incidences of bird flu. The Animal Husbandry department had supervised the culling operations where 91,161 birds, have been put to death. 'Every house within the three-km radius (whether they had poultry or not) is being disinfected...

Rural Doctors In UP Annoyed Over Attendance Issue

...ent of the poor and needy in the health centres in villages and towns. According to the order, the district chief medical officers would send weekly reports on the attendance of doctors, and these would be verified and ratified by the village heads and block development heads. The doctors resent the move...

Trachoma cannot be obliterated with just one dose of antibiotic

A study carried in eight Ethiopian villages for two years found that a single dose of an antibiotic is insufficient to nip infection causing trachoma, which happens to be the// primary cause of blindness. A previous study in one Tanzanian village had seemed to show that a single distribution...

Female Ratio Drops Alarmingly In Himachal Due To Feticides

...atio had dropped to less than 800 in 41 percent of villages across the state," Sharma told IANS. The more affected districts are Kangra, Bilaspur, Hamirpur and Una in the lower hills of the state. Kangra, the state's most populous district, is the worst affected. Activists allege that illegal sex determin...

After Bird flu its anthrax that scares the wits out of people

... has urged people of Dedakiyali village and nearby villages to report any case of bleeding from eyes, ears or mouth of livestock to the nearest health department office. "In case of death of any animal, the carcass should be buried after spraying lime and salt on it," Vaghasia added. So it is crunch tim...

31 Villages In Romania Affected By Bird Flu

...ction in Ostrov // (near the Bulgarian border), 31 villages have been confirmed to be affected by bird flu. ...he bird flu strain in October last year, nearly 31 villages have been affected. So far, no human-human transmission has been recorded so far. However, it is f...

Bird Flu Reported In Northern Iraq

...Iraqi authorities have imposed a quarantine on the villages bordering Turkey and sent in teams to slaughter fowl in certain areas. Roads into the mountainous Rania area, the site of the first flu death, have been blocked. The area comprises some 50 villages, and it is a home to 400,000 people. Edited (IANS)...

Soccer club visit to turkey, cancelled

...gh Romania was severely affected by bird flu in 23 villages there was no single human case. Four Romanian soccer clubs, which had previously planned to do their winter training, had selected other venues due to the bird flu scare. Poli Timisoara, Rapid Bucharest, FC Vaslui and Dinamo Bucharest are the fo...

Countries Step up Battle Against Bird Flu

...5N1 virus has been found in poultry in 26 Romanian villages since October, but no human cases of the disease have been reported. Africa Seeks Aid Meanwhile, African states will present an action plan to reduce the risk of a bird flu outbreak on the world's poorest continent at the Beijing meeting, experts s...

Indonesia urges a grant of $1 billion for bird flu

...r reporting symptoms of flu as been set up and all villages in the country will be under surveillance...

Men queue up for Circumcision In Swaziland To Prevent HIV/AIDS

...ls are being thought of to provide circumcision in villages at no cost to males between the ages 10-24. However, the largest international supporters of HIV/AIDS prevention have treated the results cautiously and are waiting for results from similar studies in Uganda and Kenya before deciding whether to o...

Campaign Against Witchcraft In Orissa

...ociation, is presently on a 13-day campaign in the villages of Orissa to spread awareness against witchcraft. In a typical example Naik, asks them to applaud the "mother" – a 11-year-old girl when her "supernatural" strength ignites the contents of a vessel on its own. Naik explains to them how the "lin...

Rehabilitate Sex Workers - Mata Amritanandamayi

...nt. She says that she had offered to adopt three villages in the quake-hit areas in Kashmir and also made an offer to Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf to send relief workers or relief material to the quake-affected areas on the other side of the divide, but found no positive response. Source: A...

Indonesian Health Care System Rebuilt After Tsunami

...tiatives have already been made in three different villages (worst affected by Tsunami) to improve the working capacity of health care providers. Zainal Abidin Hospital, the largest referral center in Aceh, has been provided with new medical equipments and the delivery ward has started to receive a lot of c...

New confirmed case of bird flu in Romania poultry

...e presence of the deadly bird flu strain // in six villages Modelu, Traian, Reviga, Odaile, Marsilieni and Tat...t migrates to all parts of Europe and more than 26 villages around the Danube delta is infected with bird flu virus....

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