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During an October 5, 2008 press conference at the French consulate in Jerusalem, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner made the following statement: "Officially, we have no contact with Hamas, but unofficially, international organizations working in the Gaza Strip - in particular, French NGOs - provide us information." Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the organizations working in the
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In the most volatile parts of North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), violence has reached its highest levels in years while assistance is hardly reaching those most in need, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
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The North Carolina Institute for Public Health has been awarded an $8.5 million, five-year grant to create a new research center focused on helping protect the state from a wide range to disasters and threats. The institute, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, was selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to head up one of seven new Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers.
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Won-Young Kim, a senior scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has won the Jesuit Seismological Association Award from the Seismological Society of America for his work on wide-ranging questions both local and global. Among other things, he has assessed earthquake hazards in New York City and beyond; developed methods of monitoring nuclear-bomb tests; and clarified the sequence of events during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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The government can't ignore the credit crunch crisis that is engulfing Britain's charities, Unite, the country's biggest union, warned today (10 October). Unite, which has 60,000 members in the not-for-profit sector, is writing to the new minister for the Third Sector, Kevin Brennan calling for concerted government action to help voluntary sector organisations which may have directly lost money in the Icelandic banking debacle or as a result of the investments of its funders.
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Food Security: - From Local to Global, will be the focus of the Society for Nutrition Education's 2009 annual conference, but this single event is just one small step in fighting world hunger. Food security remains a top priority around the world and requires immediate attention in order to combat the issues of poverty, poor nutrition, hunger and deficiencies.
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With more than five million Zimbabweans facing severe food shortages, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for US$140 million to provide vital relief rations over the next six months. Without additional contributions, WFP warned it will run out of stocks in January - at the very peak of the crisis.
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The stories of women who die in India during pregnancy, delivery or from post-partum complications have largely remained untold - until now. A powerful new tool that analyses the underlying medical and social reasons behind maternal death is being used by health experts, policymakers and communities to save women's lives. The Indian Government estimates that 301 women die annually for every 100,000 live births.
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The American Red Cross is contributing $600,000 for relief operations in areas of Haiti affected by a series of powerful hurricanes. Of the contribution, $500,000 is a grant from the U.S. Government's Agency for International Development/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and will contribute to relief supplies including hygiene kits, buckets, mosquito nets, and five trained disaster workers.
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The Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH), the US-based non-profit pharmaceutical company that develops drugs for people with infectious diseases in the developing world, announced that a delegation of US experts in diarrheal disease is meeting in the UK from October 6-9, 2008.
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Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a low-cost, high-resolution imaging system that can be attached to a helicopter to create a complete and detailed picture of an area devastated by a hurricane or other natural disaster. The resulting visual information can be used to estimate the number of storm refugees and assess the need for health and humanitarian services.
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WHO is sending drugs and medical supplies to Kyrgyzstan's mountainous Alaisky district, bordering China, where a 6.6 magnitude earthquake has killed up to 70 people and wounded 100. Remoteness and difficult communications are slowing the country's response but UN agencies are supporting Kyrgyz authorities to gain a better understanding of the damage to the area. --
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The American Physiological Society has established the Hurricane Ike Relief Fund to provide unrestricted grants of up to $2,000 to support physiology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who suffered losses as a result of Hurricane Ike. The powerful storm hit the Texas coast on Sept. 13 and also affected other areas of the country. The grants are targeted to students and fellows who are either APS members or working in the laboratories of APS members.
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Future buildings - especially tall structures - should be increasingly resistant to fire, more easily evacuated in emergencies, and safer overall thanks to 23 major and far-reaching building and fire code changes approved recently by the International Code Council (ICC) based on recommendations from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences. Mathematicians at Liverpool, working with physicists at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille Universite have found that coastal defences could be made 'invisible' when water is guided through a special structure called metamaterial.
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Not only are doctors, nurses, and firefighters essential during a severe pandemic influenza outbreak. So, too, are truck drivers, communications personnel, and utility workers. That's the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins University article to be published in the journal of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. The report, led by Nancy Kass, Sc.
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Two weeks ago, the Lord's Resistance Army attacked a number of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and abducted 90 children from their schools. The SRSG and UNICEF call for the immediate and unconditional release of all of the abducted children, who were taken during simultaneous attacks on the Kiliwa, Duru, and Nambia villages in Orientale Province on 17 September 2008.
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The recent escalation in fighting in one of Mogadishu's most populated residential areas has resulted in a surge of wounded civilians and has once again displaced thousands of people. The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is treating some of the wounded and is providing basic relief supplies to newly displaced people.
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A month after the last tropical storms and hurricanes hit Haiti, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have found a whole village partially submerged and its 2,400 remaining inhabitants stranded with no help. On Tuesday, September 30, MSF teams managed to reach Mamont, a town southeast of Gonaïves in the Artibonite region, which was heavily affected by the series of storms that struck Haiti in late August and last month.
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Ten weeks after Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) authorization to treat malnutrition in the Maradi region was suspended, the French section of MSF is no longer providing any medical-nutritional treatment on site there. A new memorandum of understanding was drafted between the Ministry of Public Health and MSF, but the authorities of Niger have yet to sign it.
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Earlier this week the US government announced measures to boost the nation's preparedness against a potentia outdoor anthrax attack: using letter carriers or mailmen on a voluntary basis to deliver supplies and medicines to residents in communities during an emergency.
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Brad Gautney, medical operations executive for the Integral Life Foundation (ILF), returned from a medical trip to Haiti, where he and a team of four other medical professionals treated approximately 400 Haitian orphans and vulnerable children in the town of Gonaives.
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has dispatched a first convoy of food and other supplies for 200,000 displaced people in the LTTE-controlled area of Sri Lanka. The population has been cut off from humanitarian assistance for more than two weeks after fighting in the region escalated. This convoy has delivered enough food to feed the population for one week.
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This month's cover shows a classic public health poster on schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease that still affects about 200 million people despite five decades of prevention and control programmes. In an editorial, Myra Taylor (738) introduces three papers on current schistosomiasis control efforts: Xun-Ya Houet al. (788-795) evaluate different combinations of drugs used to treat acute schistosomiasis in China; Veronica L Tallo et al.
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Hurricane Ike hit Houston hard less than two weeks ago, but already health leadership is hunkering down to address healthcare issues that affect not only people in the Gulf-coast Region but those around the country. The 2008 Wellness Symposium will be held on November 13th-14th at Minute Maid Park/Union Station in Downtown Houston.
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