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November 2007
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30.11.2007
More...Related topics/regions: [Aid] [Education] [Energy] [Fisheries] [Food] [Intermediate technology] [International cooperation] [Labour] [Land] [Population] [Poverty] [Social exclusion] [Tourism] [Transport] [Volunteering] [Youth] [Environment] [Animals] [Atmosphere] [Climate change] [Conservation] [Environmental activism] [Forests] [Oceans] [Pollution] [Renewable energy] [Rivers] [Soils] [Disease] [Infant mortality] [Malaria] [Nutrition/malnutrition] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Gender] [Indigenous rights] [Sexuality] [Culture] [ICT] [Media] [Globalisation] [Governance] [Conflict] [Conflict resolution] [Peace] Image: Waves of Change
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30.11.2007
Small salt producers in the Indian western state of Rajasthan are partnering NGOs and the government in the campaign against iodine deficiency disorders. According to the WFP, Nawa now produces iodised salt as per the national standard.
more...From: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [India] [Capacity building] [Food] [Knowledge] Image: Women working at the salt production site
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30.11.2007
2007 AIDS Epidemic Update a joint report by UNAIDS and WHO comes as a reprieve. The new report reveals that the epidemic has slowed down in recent times and that the dreaded HIV virus has actually not infected as many people as it was earlier feared.
more...Related topics/regions: [AIDS] [Disease] Image: Red Ribbon
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30.11.2007
Selama di rumah sakit tersebut, tidak ada perawat yang mau melayaniku. Mereka juga tidak mau mengurus bayiku. Aku sadar bahwa aku adalah Orang dengan HIV/AIDS (ODHA). Namun, apakah sehina itukah diriku di mata mereka?
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [Children] [AIDS] [Disease] [Infant mortality] [Narcotics] [Gender] [Social exclusion] Image: Bayi. Sumber www.images.jupiterimages.com
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29.11.2007
Sosialisasi mengenai bahaya HIV/AIDS makin gencar dilakukan di Kotawaringin Barat. Baru-baru ini, giliran siswa dari berbagai sekolah menengah atas, madrasah aliyah, dan sekolah menengah kejuruan di kota itu yang mendapat giliran sosialisasi.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] Image: Waduk Wadas Lintang, Kebumen. Sumber www.pariwisatakebumen.tripod.com
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29.11.2007
Apakah nyamuk bisa menularkan AIDS? Bukankan nyamuk menghisap darah kita dan alat penghisapnya sama seperti jarum suntik yang dapat menularkan AIDS? Apakah pendapat ini fakta? Atau mitos?
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] [Malaria] [Narcotics] Image: Nyamuk. Sumber www.cornellcollege.edu
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29.11.2007
Selama Oktober 2007, delapan orang dinyatakan meninggal akibat menderita HIV/AIDS. Jumlah tersebut merupakan akumulasi dari 39 pasien penyakit ini yang mendapat perawatan di RSUP HAM dalam kurun satu bulan.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] [Infant mortality] Image: Becak Medan. Sumber www.geocities.com
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28.11.2007
Masih ingatkah beberapa tahun yang lalu saat kampanye kondom di media massa dihentikan secara mendadak sebelum waktunya? Alasannya, ada protes dari kelompok Islam yang tidak setuju adanya kampanye kondom di media massa.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] [Religion] [Sexuality] Image: Kondom. Sumber http://confluence.oncampusuk.co.uk
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28.11.2007
A new report by Oxfam says that more than 85% people in the world have no access to medicines due to high pricing. Developing medicines only for the rich is a bad business strategy, as also the scant interest shown by pharmaceutical companies in research and development of medicines for diseases that affect the poor in developing countries, says the report.
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28.11.2007
Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation has extended a grant of 100 million dollars for polio eradication worldwide. The grant will target Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan, the last four countries in the world where fresh cases of polio still keep surfacing.
more...Related topics/regions: [Children] [Disease] [Disability] Image: Child receives polio vaccine © Crack Palinggi/Reuters/Corbis; permissions through “Rx for Survival”
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28.11.2007
Sydäntaudit, syöpä ja diabetes tappavat yli kaksi kertaa niin paljon ihmisiä kuin HIV/AIDS, malaria ja tuberkuloosi. Nämä yleensä korkeaan elintasoon liitetyt sairaudet tulevat iskemään voimakkaasti kehitysmaihin, asiantuntijat varoittavat.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [Disease] Image: - © Television Trust for the Environment
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28.11.2007
Detoksifikasi secara garis besar adalah proses pemulihan dari ketergantungan narkoba, baik tanpa menggunakan obat ataupun menggunakan obat. Salah satu yang saat ini banyak dipakai adalah buprenorfin atau subutex.
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28.11.2007
Ketua Pokja Perempuan Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS Nasional ini mengatakan bahwa anak-anak akan menjadi perhatian khusus pada peringatan Hari AIDS 1 Desember 2007 nanti. Sebab, penularan HIV kini juga merambah anak-anak.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] Image: Anak-anak. Sumber www.aulia-kids.org
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27.11.2007
Rumah Tahanan Negara (Rutan) Medaeng kembali mendapat tambahan seorang tahanan yang terdeteksi menderita AIDS. Kali ini, tahanan berinisial DS tersebut merupakan kiriman Polsekta Tenggilis Mejoyo. Saat datang, DS cukup mengkhawatirkan.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] [Narcotics] [Human rights] Image: Logo petugas Rutan. Sumber www.lapas.aids-ina.org
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27.11.2007
Current sanitation systems will not help in reaching the Millennium Development Goal, concluded experts at the recent meet of the World Toilet Association (WTA) at Seoul. Flush toilets have to become eco-friendly as newer ways to dispose human waste get developed.
more...Related topics/regions: [Development] [Water/sanitation] [Environment] [MDGs] |
27.11.2007
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in his ‘moment of enlightenment’ has described the act of manual scavenging a spiritual experience for dalits! In India, more than one million people are engaged in this inhuman and degrading form of work, despite a law that prohibits either employment of scavengers or construction of dry latrines.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Labour] [Poverty] [Social exclusion] |
27.11.2007
Departemen Kesehatan RI memprediksi, hampir 3.000 warga di Kalimantan Barat terinfeksi HIV. Atas hal tersebut, Kalimantan Barat menjadi provinsi prioritas penanggulangan HIV/AIDS seperti tercantum dalam Komitmen Sentani.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] Image: Senja di TN Gunung Palung, Kalbar. Sumber www.erickdanzer.com
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27.11.2007
Perang terhadap HIV/AIDS terus mengalami kemajuan. Sejumlah ilmuwan yang dipimpin Profesor Robin Offord dan Olivier Hartley dari Universitas Jenewa, Swiss, baru-baru ini, berhasil mengembangkan sejenis molekul yang diyakini dapat melindungi manusia dari virus HIV/AIDS.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] Image: CCR5. Sumber www.scripps.edu
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26.11.2007
Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS Kabupaten Sambas bekerjasama dengan UNFPA, gencar melakukan berbagai kegiatan untuk mencegah penyebaran. Termasuk di antaranya dengan memfasilitasi pelaksanaan rapat koordinasi dengan kepala sekolah.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [AIDS] [Disease] Image: Sambas. Sumber www.urip.files.wordpress.com
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26.11.2007
"Nonostante una diminuzione generale dell’intensità e della frequenza dei conflitti nel distretto dell’Ituri nell’est della Repubblica Democratica del Congo (RdC), la popolazione civile continua a subire livelli di violenza intollerabili": lo afferma Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) in un rapporto che testimonia il perdurare delle "atroci violenze sessuali e le conseguenze umanitarie delle operazioni militari condotte nel 2007 nell’ambito del 'processo di pacificazione' nella regione". "Quasi la metà delle violenze sono causate da uomini legati alle forze armate o alle milizie”. In un altro comunicato sempre MSF segnala che nel corso degli ultimi mesi nuove ondate di combattimenti nella provincia del Nord Kivu, nella parte orientale della RdC hanno costretto alla fuga diverse centinaia di migliaia di persone.
more...Related topics/regions: [Emergency relief] [Human rights] [Activism] [Conflict] Image: Rapporto su violente in Ituri - da Msf
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