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ASIA: Isolation, poverty loom for an aging population
14 February 2012
(IRIN
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With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia has one of the largest concentrations globally of aging persons, creating a host of potential challenges, experts warn.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94856/ASIA-Isolation-poverty-loom-for-an-aging-population
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HEALTH: How "totally drug-resistant" is a misnomer - for now
17 January 2012
(IRIN
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The "totally drug-resistant" tuberculosis (TDR-TB) reportedly emerging in India is actually an advanced stage of drug-resistant TB, which researchers called totally drug-resistant for lack of a better term.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94656/HEALTH-How-totally-drug-resistant-is-a-misnomer-for-now
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ASIA: Boosting cities' food resilience
18 November 2011
(IRIN
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From rooftops to railroad tracks, Asia's largest cities will need to maximize every bit of space to feed one of the world's fastest-growing populations, said experts at a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) workshop in Bangkok on resilient food systems in Asia.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94233/ASIA-Boosting-cities-food-resilience
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DISASTERS: A bigger role for Asia in humanitarian response
12 October 2011
(IRIN
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A top UN official says Asia can, and should, play a more prominent role in the humanitarian response to major natural and man-made disasters.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93939/DISASTERS-A-bigger-role-for-Asia-in-humanitarian-response
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KYRGYZSTAN: Tents delivered to earthquake victims
22 July 2011
(IRIN
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A 19 July earthquake measuring eight on the Richter scale in southern Kyrgyzstan has left hundreds of people without shelter.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93308/KYRGYZSTAN-Tents-delivered-to-earthquake-victims
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GLOBAL: Stillbirths could be halved
27 April 2011
(IRIN
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Preventing stillbirths can cost just US$2.32 per mother if governments, the private sector and international institutions adopt a package of 10 health interventions, rather than allowing stillbirths to be an almost invisible problem.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/92590/GLOBAL-Stillbirths-could-be-halved
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KYRGYZSTAN: Violence victims prepare for winter
1 December 2010
(IRIN
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With night-time temperatures currently hovering around zero and forecast to drop to minus 15 degrees Celsius in a few days time, communities badly affected by the June violence in southern Kyrgyzstan are worried about how they will manage over the winter.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91255/KYRGYZSTAN-Violence-victims-prepare-for-winter
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KYRGYZSTAN: Quake-resistant homes for violence survivors
29 November 2010
(IRIN
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Hundreds of people who lost their homes during ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan in June are moving into new earthquake-resistant "transitional" dwellings: about 2,000 will be completed by the end of November, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91220/KYRGYZSTAN-Quake-resistant-homes-for-violence-survivors
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HIV/AIDS: MSM groups hail pill to prevent HIV
24 November 2010
(IRIN
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Gay rights groups have hailed the results of the first study to show that an antiretroviral (ARV) drug can prevent HIV as an important step in the fight against HIV, but say that in countries that criminalize homosexuality, the breakthrough is unlikely to have a significant impact.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91180/HIV-AIDS-MSM-groups-hail-pill-to-prevent-HIV
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ASIA: Taking the taboo out of the loo
19 November 2010
(IRIN
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Entrepreneur turned toilet crusader Jack Sim from Singapore wants to turn the toilet into the new gold standard of status in Asia, which would signify “making it” - as mobile phones have for years and as 24-karat gold did before that.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91130/ASIA-Taking-the-taboo-out-of-the-loo
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ASIA: Why snakebites matter
17 November 2010
(IRIN
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Despite an age-old widespread fear and distrust of snakes, their bites have only recently been added to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of “neglected tropical diseases”. Snakes bite an estimated five million people each year worldwide, seriously injuring or disabling up to three million and killing an estimated 125,000, according to WHO and the Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91107/ASIA-Why-snakebites-matter
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KYRGYZSTAN: The hidden threat of micronutrient deficiency
17 November 2010
(IRIN
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By the time Fatima Emilova was six months old she had been hospitalized twice for 10 days at a time with debilitating bouts of diarrhoea. The disease, a worldwide killer, is often caused by a lack of zinc, one of several micronutrients dangerously deficient among infants in the impoverished Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91119/KYRGYZSTAN-The-hidden-threat-of-micronutrient-deficiency
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GLOBAL: Corruption hampers MDGs - Transparency International
27 October 2010
(IRIN
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Corruption siphons off 20-30 percent of funding for basic services, estimates non-profit Transparency International (TI), and tackling it should be higher on the international development agenda.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90898/GLOBAL-Corruption-hampers-MDGs-Transparency-International
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KYRGYZSTAN: Lawyers demand protection*
19 October 2010
(IRIN
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A group of lawyers are demanding that the Kyrgyz authorities guarantee security and due process in court cases linked to inter-ethnic clashes earlier this year, to prevent the chaos and violence that has disrupted some of the hearings so far.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90814/KYRGYZSTAN-Lawyers-demand-protection
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ASIA: How Typhoon Megi got its name
18 October 2010
(IRIN
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As one of the strongest typhoons in five years rips through the Philippines, some might be wondering why it is called Megi - the Korean word for catfish.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90804/ASIA-How-Typhoon-Megi-got-its-name
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HIV/AIDS: Global Fund looks to private sector to fill funding gap
14 October 2010
(IRIN
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With its coffers running at least US$1 billion short, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is looking to the private sector to fill the funding gap.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90765/HIV-AIDS-Global-Fund-looks-to-private-sector-to-fill-funding-gap
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HEALTH: New global plan aims to wipe out TB
14 October 2010
(IRIN
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A new roadmap for curbing the global epidemic of tuberculosis aims to save five million lives between 2011 and 2015 and eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050 but comes with a price tag of US$47 billion, nearly half of which must still be found.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90767/HEALTH-New-global-plan-aims-to-wipe-out-TB
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ASIA: Cities key to disaster risk reduction
12 October 2010
(IRIN
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Improving the resiliency of cities is critical to disaster mitigation in Asia, according to specialists.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90748/ASIA-Cities-key-to-disaster-risk-reduction
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ASIA: Unquantifiable damage caused by wildfires
11 October 2010
(IRIN
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Wildfires may not get the attention of earthquakes and cyclones but their destructive potential is considerable and warrants further attention, experts warn.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90729/ASIA-Unquantifiable-damage-caused-by-wildfires
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ASIA: Boosting community resilience in disasters
30 September 2010
(IRIN
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A bed sheet to stop bleeding, broken furniture as splints for fractures, Buddhist temples turned into evacuation centres and bottled water to decontaminate wounds: People are often forced to innovate when disaster hits.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/90630/ASIA-Boosting-community-resilience-in-disasters
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