 | UNFPA'S 2008 State of the World Population: Focusing on the Numbers
15 December 2008 | Global
Let's first look at the numbers contained in UNFPA's 2008 State of World Population (SWOP) entitled Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights.
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| 'Airport Malaria' Risk Rising With Global Warming
15 December 2008 | Global
Mosquitoes make their way on to planes in tropical regions, and at the end of a flight can escape into the increasingly warmer climates of developed countries, where they now have a better chance of surviving and proliferating.
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| Disease Knows No Borders
15 December 2008 | Asia
In an interview with The Post, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou talked of his hopes that China will allow Taiwan to participate in a meeting in May of the World Health Assembly, an agency of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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| Report: Nations Exaggerated Numbers of Vaccines in Gates-Funded Program
15 December 2008 | North America
A new analysis - by another Gates-funded organization - says only about half as many additional children as reported got the shots.
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| Indian State to Kill 200,000 Fowl in Bird Flu Cull
15 December 2008 | Asia
Indian authorities will slaughter 200,000 chickens in the northeast state of Assam in the next two days in a culling operation to tackle the threat of bird flu, officials said.
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| Myanmar-Thailand: Child Trafficking Continues, but Not Fuelled by Cyclone
15 December 2008 | Asia
When Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar in May, leaving close to 140,000 people dead or missing, aid workers feared an increase in child trafficking from the region.
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| CMMB to Host Mahler Symphony Fundraiser
12 December 2008 | North America
mahler for the children of AIDS, a benefit concert featuring Gustav Mahler's monumental Third Symphony, will be held 8pm, Monday January 12, 2009 in Isaac Stern Auditorium/ Perelman Family Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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| Greater Integration of HIV-Infected in Eastern Europe, Ex-Soviet States Crucial – U.N.
11 December 2008 | Europe and Former Soviet Republics
Discrimination and the social exclusion of people living with HIV are undermining efforts to respond to AIDS in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS.)
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| Easing the Burden of AIDS in Zambia
11 December 2008 | Africa
Each December, Children International and the world takes time to remember those who have died of AIDS and those who still suffer from the disease.
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| Drug Resistant TB Rife in China
11 December 2008 | Asia
Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average and almost 10 percent of cases are resistant to the most effective first-line drugs, a study has shown.
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