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Health in Africa: My Kenyan mamas
Fri, 25 May 2012 03:31:52 -0700
Commentary: An American journalist is reminded of the need to nurture and be nurtured. Julienne Gage WASHINGTON — Nurturing is something we learn at an early age and often dismiss as a minor incidental until life circumstances get the best of us. For me this realization came a week into a three-week assignment on reproductive health in Kenya. After several hours shooting video of the masses of ...
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World Health Assembly endorses new plan to increase global access to vaccines
Fri, 25 May 2012 07:56:20 -0700
( Sabin Vaccine Institute ) Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly today endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan, a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.
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Cycling could harm male reproductive health by increasing estrogen levels
Wed, 23 May 2012 10:03:21 -0700
Male cycling enthusiasts may have more to worry about than saddle sores and road safety, after a UCLA study found the sport can play havoc with their fertility.
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Africa: World Health Assembly Endorses New Plan to Increase Vaccines Access
Sat, 26 May 2012 08:11:49 -0700
[Decade of Vaccines Collaboration] Geneva, Switzerland - May 25, 2012 - Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly today endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.
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Dabawenyas to raise health, envi issues
Sat, 26 May 2012 09:14:40 -0700
WOMEN leaders and advocates in Davao City would once again converge in another yearly gathering to put across their various issues on health and the environment that greatly affect the women sector.
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Revive rights-based focus on women's health
Fri, 25 May 2012 02:29:32 -0700
"We need to revive the rights-based agenda and realign research priorities for women's health," journalist Priya Shetty writes in this SciDev.Net opinion piece. "The activists who fought to put human rights at the center of women's sexual and reproductive health, at the landmark International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994, may have won the battle -- but they are ...
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Study by UCLA School of Nursing Finds Cycling May Negatively Affect Male Reproductive Health
Mon, 21 May 2012 08:00:00 -0700
A new study conducted by UCLA School of Nursing researchers has found that serious leisure male cyclists may experience hormonal imbalances that could affect their reproductive health.
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Madagascar: A Decaying Health Sector
Fri, 25 May 2012 08:11:55 -0700
[IRIN] Antsohihy - The Basic Health Centre or Centre de Santé de Base (CSB) II in Anjalajala, near Antsohihy, the capital of Madagascar's northern Sofia Region, is housed in a recently renovated building and its status as a CSB II promises the availability of a trained doctor. But the doctor left for Antananarivo, the capital, in 2002 and has not been replaced, and whenever the remaining nurse ...
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Reproductive Health: Sidelined but irrepressible
Mon, 21 May 2012 05:52:10 -0700
When the Reproductive Health Bill (House Bill 4244) made it past Committee on Population early in 2011, legislators and civil society organizations supporting RH were ecstatic. They had reason to be, for after 14 years of being bottled up in committee, the RH bill had blasted its way to the plenary and appeared to have the momentum.
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UCLA study: Riding bikes could, ummmm, affect male reproductive health
Mon, 21 May 2012 11:41:58 -0700
LOS ANGESLES - Men who ride bicycles may experience hormonal imbalances that could affect their reproductive health, researchers say in a UCLA School of Nursing study released today.
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