Africa Information - January 6, 2009

U.S. Opens HIV/AIDS Hospital In Tanzania

October 9, 2005 - Topics hospital, hiv, aids, africa and pharmaceutical
A $35 million dollar U.S. funded HIV/AIDS treatment center opens at Tanzania's main referral hospital, the Muhimbili National Hospital, with a capacity to process up to 1,000 tests in an hour.

The money comes from funding given to fight HIV/AIDS and TB in poor African countries by the Bush Administration

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Global Childhood Immunizations Need Improvement

September 30, 2005 - Topics global, immunization, child, africa and vaccination
The United Nation's children's agency reports about 1.4 million children under the age of five die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough, and other diseases preventable by vaccines.

According to the report, about 130 million children are born each year, and since 1990, about 70-ercent have received the vital immunizations - up from some 20-percent under the age of 1 in 1980

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Study Finds Missed Vaccinations Kill 1.4 Million Children Worldwide

September 30, 2005 - Topics study, child, vaccination, africa and whooping cough
The U.N. children's agency reports about 1.4 million children under the age of five die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough and other diseases preventable by vaccines.

According to the report, about 130 million children are born each year, and since 1990, about 70 percent have received the vital immunizations - up from some 20 percent under the age of 1 in 1980

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Jolie, Clinton, Rice Speak-Up for AIDS Action

September 29, 2005 - Topics aids, disease, hiv, africa and education
Angelina Jolie, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton each stood-up and spoke-up at a dinner of the Global Business Coalition on HIV-AIDS, banning together to raise $1.3 million.

Volkswagen of South Africa, Getty Images, MAC Cosmetics, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Virgin United and DeBeers were honored for their work against AIDS

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WHO Says West African Cholera Epidemic Spreading

September 27, 2005 - Topics epidemic, africa, cholera, outbreak and hygiene

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter

So far, this year's epidemic across West Africa has sickened tens of thousands of people and killed about 800 amid heavy rains and subsequent flooding, particularly in Dakar, Senegal's capital

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