The World Bank, a leader in the global effort to control malaria, has been accused of deception and medical malpractice by a group of public health doctors for failing to carry out its funding promises and wrongly claiming its programmes have been successful in cutting the death toll from the disease.
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/ 13 February 2006
The British government recently defied the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding. Nearly 70Â 000 women and girls died last year because they went to backstreet abortionists. Thousands of others suffered serious injuries.
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/ 6 February 2006
The number of people suffering strokes could be hugely reduced by including more than five daily portions of fruit and vegetables in their diet, according to the latest research. In the United Kingdom, there are 150Â 000 cases of stroke a year.
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/ 30 January 2006
Within a few years, girls will be vaccinated against cancer. Not every cancer — at least, not yet. But the cervical cancer jab is well on its way. A couple of shots in the arm, perhaps, and young women may never have to think about it again. Simple coughs and colds can trigger everyÂthing from childhood leukaemia to cervical cancer.
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/ 21 November 2005
The prospects for checking the pandemic growth of malaria looked brighter this week after scientists reported that, after 18 months, young children in Mozambique were still enjoying protection from the vaccine they are testing. Malaria takes more than a million lives every year.
Brazil this week became the first country to take a stand against the Bush administration’s massive Aids programme, which is seen by many as seeking increasingly to press its anti-abortion, pro-abstinence sexual agenda on poorer countries. Campaigners applauded Brazil’s rejection of -million for its Aids programmes because it refuses to agree to a declaration condemning prostitution.
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/ 14 January 2005
The discovery of a genetic difference between rhesus monkeys and humans may help find a way to stop HIV infection developing into Aids, researchers said on Monday. British scientists funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) say they have identified a gene that prevents the rhesus monkey from getting infected by the HI virus
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/ 8 December 2004
The true scale of ignorance and lack of sympathy in the United Kingdom to people living with HIV and Aids has been revealed in a survey of British attitudes, released last Wednesday. It suggests the stigma endured by those with the disease in Britain is as serious an issue as it is at the heart of the pandemic in Africa or Asia.
Giant food companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonald’s were accused this week of exploiting the name of the Prince of Wales as a front for a campaign that will promote exercise as the cure for obesity, rather than changes in diet. The International Business Leaders Forum, of which Prince Charles is president, has recently launched a healthy eating, active living global partnership (Heal).
The former United States president Bill Clinton on Tuesday took a swipe at the Bush administration’s close relationship with American pharmaceutical giants by announcing a deal to enable poor countries to buy cheap generic drugs and testing equipment for Aids, rather than the US companies’ more expensive wares.