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KABUL, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - Funded by international donors, the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has contracted dozens of NGOs to deliver basic health services over the past few years, but some analysts argue the government has grown too dependent and it is not a sustainable policy.
JAKARTA, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - Survivors of a severe earthquake that struck Indonesia's West Sumatra province have developed illnesses caused by poor living conditions, say medical workers, while shelter and food remain key concerns almost two weeks after the disaster.
MANILA, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - Nine months pregnant with her first child, Chona de la Cruz, 30, waded through murky flood waters amid heavy rain to reach a government hospital in Manila's suburban Cainta district.
YANGON, 12 October 2009 (IRIN) - Four years after contracting rheumatic fever, Mee Naing, 28, finally beat the disease with the help of traditional medicine.
PHNOM PENH, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - About 700 police and soldiers in riot gear arrived early one morning, waking 58-year-old Teth Neang with a baton and forcing her into a truck.
MANILA, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - The UN is to revise its flash appeal made on 7 October for the Philippines, which faces massive reconstruction and rehabilitation challenges after cyclones devastated many areas and killed at least 684 people, the body's humanitarian chief, John Holmes, said on 13 October.
MINGORA, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - Health officials say 13 cases of polio have been confirmed in Pakistan's volatile Swat District over the past four months, mainly because vaccinators have been unable to access children there for over a year.
BANGKOK, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.
PENANG, 14 October 2009 (IRIN) - In the tourist city of Penang in northern Malaysia, the Buddhist temple has become the locus of social and economic support for migrants from Myanmar.
KABUL, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) - In a memorandum to Afghanistan's next president, 16 Afghan and international NGOs and civil society organizations have called for urgent improvements in the health, education and human rights sectors.
COLOMBO, 16 October 2009 (IRIN) - The seas off Batticaloa in the country's former war-torn east are home to one of the most fertile spawning grounds off Sri Lanka, and fishermen rarely had to travel far for a good catch.
JAKARTA, 16 October 2009 (IRIN) - Climate change is contributing to more frequent and deadlier natural disasters, and governments need to speed up measures to mitigate their impact, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, warns.