CAMBODIA: Gov’t Heats Up Anti-Smoking Campaign
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EUROPE: Space Agency Maps Mosquitoes to Combat Tropical Diseases
Julio Godoy* – Tierramérica PARIS, May 31 2011 (IPS) – In times of war, the…
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Apr 1 2012 (IPS) – South Africa s nine provinces will…
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WASHINGTON, Jul 30 2012 (IPS) – Ian McKnight, executive director of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities…
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Julitta Onabanjo is Regional Director, UNFPA East and Southern Africa. Benoit Kalasa is Regional Director,…
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Of the 100 patients seen at Kashmir’s psychiatric facilities each day, roughly 75 are women.…
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Paloma Duran is Director of the Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDG Fund). UNITED NATIONS, Mar…
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Tents set up at Alsabeen hospital in Sana’a Yemen for screening suspected cholera cases. UNITED…
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