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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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Somalia, beyond the famine
22 May 2013
(IRIN
),
Over one million people in Somalia are currently food insecure, according to a May report by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET). This number is a significant drop from the 3.7 million considered food insecure in mid-2011.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98082/Somalia-beyond-the-famine
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Malaria overstretching healthcare in DRC
20 May 2013
(IRIN
),
Gaps in the healthcare system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are hampering the fight against malaria, a leading killer of children, say experts.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98069/Malaria-overstretching-healthcare-in-DRC
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Making WASH work in Burkina Faso’s cities
17 May 2013
(IRIN
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Earlier this year Denis Ouedraogo, a tailor living in the Tampouy neighbourhood just north of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, connected his mud-walled home to the water network for the first time. “Even without electricity, having enough water can make you happy,” he said.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98054/Making-WASH-work-in-Burkina-Faso-s-cities
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Uganda grapples with paediatric vaccine shortages
14 May 2013
(IRIN
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Ugandan children are going unimmunized as the country grapples with persistent and widespread vaccine shortages, the result of insufficient funds and inefficient procurement and supply systems, officials say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98033/Uganda-grapples-with-paediatric-vaccine-shortages
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Tracking vaccine scares
14 May 2013
(IRIN
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Vaccine scares have emerged as a major challenge to global efforts to eliminate preventable diseases, with rumours and conspiracy theories proliferating faster than health authorities can respond to them. Now researchers, led by Heidi Larson of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, are developing a tool to identify the first signs of these negative reports.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98030/Tracking-vaccine-scares
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Boko Haram attacks hit school attendance in Borno State
14 May 2013
(IRIN
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Around 15,000 children in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, have stopped attending classes since February 2013, according to a Borno State Ministry of Education official who preferred anonymity, as Boko Haram extremists continue a wave of attacks on state schools.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98032/Boko-Haram-attacks-hit-school-attendance-in-Borno-State
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Little support, no justice for Mali rape survivors
6 May 2013
(IRIN
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During the rebel takeover of northern Mali in April 2012, many women said they were subjected to rape or sexual assault. Since then, little or no support has come through for these women, say aid workers.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97983/Little-support-no-justice-for-Mali-rape-survivors
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Conflict cuts off civilians in DRC's Katanga
2 May 2013
(IRIN
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Tens of thousands of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Katanga Province have received little or no humanitarian aid in the months since having fled ongoing conflict.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97963/Conflict-cuts-off-civilians-in-DRC-s-Katanga
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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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Schools try to play catch-up
26 April 2013
(IRIN
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Iraq’s education system was once the jewel of the Middle East. Today, it is struggling to catch up, with five million children out of school, according to a 2007 survey.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97928/Schools-try-to-play-catch-up
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Smart science in the fight against malaria
26 April 2013
(IRIN
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Malaria continues to be one of the world’s deadliest diseases, annually infecting more than 200 million people and killing more than 660,000, most of them African children, according to the UN World Health Organization.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97924/Smart-science-in-the-fight-against-malaria
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Building health systems from scratch in Somalia
26 April 2013
(IRIN
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Lul Mohamed, director of the paediatric ward at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, treated five children after two bomb attacks killed 30 people on 14 April. "And they were shooting last night. One died, a bullet in his liver," she said of an eight-year-old boy.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97927/Building-health-systems-from-scratch-in-Somalia
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Children bear brunt of CAR crisis
25 April 2013
(IRIN
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Sporadic armed clashes, looting of orphanages, recruitment into armed groups, and widespread school closures have made life perilous for children in the Central African Republic (CAR) in the wake of a 24 March rebel coup by the Séléka alliance.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97921/Children-bear-brunt-of-CAR-crisis
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South Sudan prioritizes immunization, keeps polio at bay
24 April 2013
(IRIN
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Through frequent door-to-door polio immunization campaigns, South Sudan has vaccinated more than 94 percent of children under age five against the disease, according to the Ministry of Health. The immunization effort has been one of the country's few health success stories since it achieved independence a year and a half ago.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97910/South-Sudan-prioritizes-immunization-keeps-polio-at-bay
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Floods highlight disaster management challenges in Kenya
24 April 2013
(IRIN
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Assistance to thousands of flood-affected families in Kenya has been curtailed by lack of a national disaster management body, poor coordination, poor rural infrastructure and other challenges.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97916/Floods-highlight-disaster-management-challenges-in-Kenya
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In Brief: Major price cut for five-in-one vaccine
18 April 2013
(IRIN
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The cost of vaccinating children with the pentavalent vaccine - a five-in-one formulation - is set to drop significantly following a deal between the GAVI Alliance and an Indian drug manufacturer that is reducing its price by 30 percent.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97873/In-Brief-Major-price-cut-for-five-in-one-vaccine
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Far from home, but closer to school in Pakistan
17 April 2013
(IRIN
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Ten-year-old Aliya and eight-year-old Asma arrived at Jalozai refugee camp two weeks ago, after escaping a recent surge in hostilities between government forces and militants near the border with Afghanistan.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97863/Far-from-home-but-closer-to-school-in-Pakistan
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