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Mixed messages on home deliveries in Philippines
24 May 2013
(IRIN
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Varied implementation of a Department of Health (DOH) policy advocating health facility-based delivery under the care of a skilled birth attendant (SBA) has health officials and advocates worried that the policy may be doing more harm than good.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98091/Mixed-messages-on-home-deliveries-in-Philippines
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Helping displaced children in rebel-held parts of Kachin
23 May 2013
(IRIN
),
Children's laughter rings out from bamboo huts along the perimeter of the Lana Zup Ja camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a part of Myanmar’s Kachin State controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA): A group of pre-schoolers are playing in a plywood hut, seemingly oblivious to the squalid conditions surrounding them.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98083/Helping-displaced-children-in-rebel-held-parts-of-Kachin
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Analysis: How to avoid a fourth year of serious flooding in Pakistan
21 May 2013
(IRIN
),
Since 2010, monsoon rain in Pakistan has brought with it some of the biggest seasonal flooding in living memory.
Two months from this year’s rains, weather forecasters are already predicting above normal rainfall and in some areas standing water has yet to drain away from last year’s monsoon.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98071/Analysis-How-to-avoid-a-fourth-year-of-serious-flooding-in-Pakistan
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Filipino Muslim rebels take tentative steps towards governance
21 May 2013
(IRIN
),
The oppressive summer heat bore down on this impoverished southern Philippine town on Mindanao Island as thousands gathered to hear a "proxy candidate" of the country's largest Muslim rebel force address the crowd on the eve of recently concluded mid-term elections.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98072/Filipino-Muslim-rebels-take-tentative-steps-towards-governance
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Challenges to improving health care in Pakistan
17 May 2013
(IRIN
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Hamza Mazhar, a 35-year-old teacher from Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, says he never wants to see the inside of a government hospital again.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98055/Challenges-to-improving-health-care-in-Pakistan
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Evacuation volunteers fan out in Bangladesh
16 May 2013
(IRIN
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Some 50,000 volunteers in coastal communities across southern Bangladesh are out and about warning people to move to higher ground ahead of Cyclone Mahasen. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated so far.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98046/Evacuation-volunteers-fan-out-in-Bangladesh
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Landmine casualties rising in Kachin, Myanmar
15 May 2013
(IRIN
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Former rebel fighter Lahpai Hkam has been in pain every day since a landmine destroyed his lower right leg during a battle with government soldiers 18 months ago in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98040/Landmine-casualties-rising-in-Kachin-Myanmar
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Rohingya evacuation under way in Myanmar
14 May 2013
(IRIN
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The government of Myanmar has launched a large-scale effort to relocate to higher ground tens of thousands of Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDPs) ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, says the UN.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98034/Rohingya-evacuation-under-way-in-Myanmar
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Bangladesh, Myanmar brace for Cyclone Mahasen
13 May 2013
(IRIN
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Bangladesh and Myanmar are bracing for Cyclone Mahasen, a storm which could affect millions in the region, the UN has warned.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98024/Bangladesh-Myanmar-brace-for-Cyclone-Mahasen
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Marshalling smartphones, gravediggers to fight dengue in Pakistan
10 May 2013
(IRIN
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On the frontline in the fight against dengue fever in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, the authorities have a sharp eye for spare car tyres.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98010/Marshalling-smartphones-gravediggers-to-fight-dengue-in-Pakistan
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Beating wild weather in Sri Lanka
9 May 2013
(IRIN
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Planners in Sri Lanka should do more to mitigate the effects of extreme weather in order to help those most likely to be affected, experts say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98008/Beating-wild-weather-in-Sri-Lanka
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Calamity planning - Bangladesh role-plays quake response
7 May 2013
(IRIN
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As Bangladesh armed forces retrieve bodies from the country’s worst ever industrial disaster, a garment factory collapse killing over 700, contingency planning is taking place for something worse - a long-predicted earthquake striking the mega-capital of Dhaka.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97990/Calamity-planning-Bangladesh-role-plays-quake-response
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Analysis: “Wake-up call” for Bangladesh’s building industry
6 May 2013
(IRIN
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Corpses are still being recovered from Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster ever - a factory building collapse on 24 April that killed at least 600 workers near the capital. Government experts are scrambling to prevent a repeat.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97987/Analysis-Wake-up-call-for-Bangladesh-s-building-industry
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Analysis: Southeast Asia’s human trafficking conundrum
6 May 2013
(IRIN
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Tens of thousands of people are vulnerable to being trafficked in Southeast Asia, with governments struggling to understand and respond collectively to the problem, say experts and government officials.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97979/Analysis-Southeast-Asia-s-human-trafficking-conundrum
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Activists call for review of Myanmar’s citizenship law
3 May 2013
(IRIN
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Human rights groups are calling for a review of Myanmar's citizenship law, which has left more than 1.2 million people stateless nationwide, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97966/Activists-call-for-review-of-Myanmar-s-citizenship-law
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Prospects for Rakhine reconciliation dim
2 May 2013
(IRIN
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Almost one year after the first wave of inter-communal violence struck Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, sectarian hostilities have gone unabated, leaving little room for reconciliation, residents and experts say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97956/Prospects-for-Rakhine-reconciliation-dim
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Innovative ICT helps aid workers in Afghanistan
2 May 2013
(IRIN
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As Asia’s poorest country and the deadliest for aid workers, rugged Afghanistan offers a considerable challenge to humanitarian work.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97936/Innovative-ICT-helps-aid-workers-in-Afghanistan
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Behaviour change needed to combat malnutrition in Nepal
1 May 2013
(IRIN
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More work is needed to improve nutritional behaviour in Nepal, where nearly half of children under five are chronically malnourished, experts say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97949/Behaviour-change-needed-to-combat-malnutrition-in-Nepal
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Pressure in Philippines to end ban on formula milk aid
30 April 2013
(IRIN
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Health authorities in the Philippines were vigilant in keeping out infant formula donations when Typhoon Bopha hit last December, but activists are concerned the infant formula industry will succeed in pushing through legislative changes that will allow formula donations in future emergencies, making it harder to convince women in those crises to continue exclusive breastfeeding.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97943/Pressure-in-Philippines-to-end-ban-on-formula-milk-aid
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Lessons from Bangladesh garment factory collapse
30 April 2013
(IRIN
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Bangladesh must strengthen its urban search and rescue capacity, say experts, following the collapse of an eight-story factory building outside Dhaka which left nearly 400 dead.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97945/Lessons-from-Bangladesh-garment-factory-collapse
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