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HEALTH: Airdrops to fight schistosomiasis in Ghana
15 May 2012
(IRIN
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At the Kpong airfield, a few kilometres from Lake Volta in northern Ghana, Patricia Mawuli, pilot and co-founder of Medicine on the Move (MoM), a local NGO, is preparing her plane for takeoff. She is one of four health workers who fly weekly to isolated communities around the lake to raise awareness of the dangers of schistosomiasis, also called bilharzia.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95450/HEALTH-Airdrops-to-fight-schistosomiasis-in-Ghana
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NIGERIA: Where is the money to help poisoned children?
15 May 2012
(IRIN
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Aid organizations and rights groups are putting more pressure on the Nigerian government to release a promised US$5.4 million in aid for lead-poisoned children, but government officials keep ducking the issue.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95451/NIGERIA-Where-is-the-money-to-help-poisoned-children
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HEALTH: Child survival up, but not enough
11 May 2012
(IRIN
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Global mortality among children younger than five years declined by 26 percent between 2000 and 2010 - meaning that the lives of some two million children were saved - but this is still not enough for many countries to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing deaths in this age group by two-thirds by 2015, according to recent US research.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95441/HEALTH-Child-survival-up-but-not-enough
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DRC: Reducing the HIV risk of girls living on the street
8 May 2012
(IRIN
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Sarah, 16, started sleeping on the streets of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic republic of Congo (DRC), when she was only eight years old. She doesn't remember how she came to live on the streets, but thinks it was soon after her mother died.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95427/DRC-Reducing-the-HIV-risk-of-girls-living-on-the-street
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MADAGASCAR: Peer pressure to stop teen pregnancy
4 May 2012
(IRIN
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Daughters as young as 12 in the villages surrounding Antsohihy, the capital of Sofia Region, in Madagascar's remote, traditional north, often suffer the harmful consequences of falling pregnant and giving birth too young when parents accept zebus (cattle) or cash as a dowry.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95397/MADAGASCAR-Peer-pressure-to-stop-teen-pregnancy
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SOUTH SUDAN: Losing the war against kala-azar
3 May 2012
(IRIN
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In the dusty courtyard of a crowded clinic in Old Fangak, in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, throngs of people, some of them under mosquito nets strung between trees, wait to get tested for kala-azar, amid the worst continuous outbreak in three decades.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95407/SOUTH-SUDAN-Losing-the-war-against-kala-azar
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AFGHANISTAN: Concerns over child detention conditions in Kandahar
3 May 2012
(IRIN
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A government plan to relocate an all-boys juvenile rehabilitation centre (JRC) in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, from the city centre to a site near Sarposa prison, where top Taliban leaders are held, could expose the children to significant risk, according to observers.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95405/AFGHANISTAN-Concerns-over-child-detention-conditions-in-Kandahar
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SOUTH SUDAN: Teresa Nyakouth, “He was still holding his shoes when he died”
27 April 2012
(IRIN
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Teresa Nyakuoth, a 24-year-old mother of two, recalls how she was shopping in the market next to her home in Rubkhona, a district of the South Sudanese town of Bentiu, when a Sudanese bomb fell on 23 April. The blast killed one teenage boy instantly, and another died later that day in hospital, where he had been admitted with severe burns and head wounds.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/95375/SOUTH-SUDAN-Teresa-Nyakouth-He-was-still-holding-his-shoes-when-he-died
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SIERRA LEONE: "Now we can move on"
26 April 2012
(IRIN
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Sierra Leoneans are relieved that former warlord and President of Liberia Charles Taylor has been convicted by the Special Court of Sierra Leone on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95368/SIERRA-LEONE-Now-we-can-move-on
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INDONESIA: Living with dirty water
24 April 2012
(IRIN
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Heavy pollution of river water by household and industrial waste in the Indonesian province of West Java is threatening the health of at least five million people living on the riverbanks, say government officials and water experts.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95343/INDONESIA-Living-with-dirty-water
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