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How text messages help to fight Malaria in Nigeria and Ghana
" Mobile phones could soon be helping re-assure Nigerians and Ghanaians they are getting genuine medicine. A pilot scheme in the two nations has begun putting unique scratch codes on more than 500,000 medicine bottles and packets of pills. When the code is texted to a free...Fund the Global Fund to save lives from AIDS, TB, Malaria
Since its inception in 2001, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM/ The Global Fund) has saved approximately 5.7 million lives, and another 4000 deaths are averted each day of people dealing with AIDS, TB and malaria. In order to continue its existing...Cheryl Tweedy Being Treated For Malaria in London Hospital
Cheryl Cole (Cheryl Tweedy), Who Collapsed at a Photoshoot in North London Over the Weekend, is Being Treated For Malaria According to the Telegraph, she contracted the disease while on a holiday in Tanzania last...
World Malaria Day April 25, 2010 Think Humanity
World Malaria Day represents a chance for all of us to make a difference.
Think Humanity was created to provide relief, support and hope for a promising future to refugees in Africa. Our mission is...
created by Think Humanity | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Harvard's George Whitesides Invents 1 Cent Paper Chip Medical Lab
Automating medical tests on the human body just got a lot easier thanks to the equivalent of a medical lab on a paper chip that can diagnose a wide array of human conditions for about one cent.The...
created by Edmund Jenks | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Haiti Relief Work: Threat Of Diseases As Aid Is Hampered
Haiti earthquake relief work is ongoing, but Haitians are now faced with a threat of diseases as aid supplies are hampered by the country's aged infrastructure. Dead bodies are still lying unattended in Haiti's...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Nothing "Official" in Chhattisgarh
Sambo misses her four children; and has long stopped smiling. The petite woman’s eyes are vacant; she has already seen enough. She has already had enough. © Javed IqbalOctober 1, 2009, 7 am, Gompad:Security forces and SPOs (special police officers) of the Salwa Judum enter... How Long Would You Wait in the Hot Sun For a $5 Mosquito Net?
Mothers stood for over six hours in the hot sun waiting for a $5 mosquito net? HOW LONG WOULD YOU WAIT? Every 30 seconds an African child under the age of five dies from malaria. If you knew it would save your...
created by Think Humanity | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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One Net - Four Children - Five Dollars
Today is World Poverty Day. The main mission of Think Humanity is: “Joining in the fight against malaria by providing refugees with resources and manpower.” We have provided more than 8,000 mosquito nets (LLIN)...Think Humanity, "a positive change for refugees in Africa"
In 2006 my daughter, Aimee Heckel, traveled to Uganda to visit a refugee camp as a journalist on assignment. She wrote a series on the life of refugees. My life changed. Education was a problem in the camp so I...
created by Think Humanity | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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World Mosquito Day on August 20: Fight against Malaria
August 20 is World Mosquito Day. On August 20, 1897, Sir Ronald Ross discovered the link between malaria transmission and mosquitoes. Ross was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 1902, the second person to receive it.Sir Ronald Ross was a British physician born in Almora,... Most Infectious Malaria Strain Came From Chimps?
Malaria comes in four strains varying in virulence. Recent studies show that the most infectious strain may have come from chimps. Malaria is a disease of the blood. Microscopic parasites invade the...
created by Barbara McPherson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Drug-resistant Malaria Sparks Alert
The emergence of a strain of drug-resistant malaria parasites in Cambodia has sparked an alert among health care providers. Malaria is a major killer claiming more than a million each year. For those...
created by Barbara McPherson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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161 views | 15 recommendations | 3 comments
Exotic Diseases in the U.S. May Rise
We know about Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease - but have you heard of Leishmaniasis Disease, Chagas Disease and/or Chikungunya Virus? Probably not, unless you've been to places outside of the U.S.... Crisis Worsens in Zimbabwe
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe is worsening and without increased foreign assistance the crisis will become a full blown health catastrophe according to Medecins Sans Frontieres international president Dr.... NowPublic on Facebook
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