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Amanda Stueve

CHALLENGES 2006-2007: Malawi On Track to Meet Child Mortality MDG - 0 views

www.ipsnews.net/...nota.asp

childmortality healthcare malawi statistics

shared by Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • more than a million babies in the region die each year before they are a month old because of a lack of essential health care.
  • Malawi, together with Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda, is regarded as having made significant progress in reducing infant deaths over the last 10 years, thanks to increased government spending on basic health care.
  • Currently infant mortality stands at 94 deaths per 1,000 live births in Malawi. A decade ago, the infant mortality rate was pegged at 146 per 1,000 live births.
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  • The Malawian government has intensified the promotion of low-technology and cost-effective measures such as vaccines against child illnesses, antibiotics to treat respiratory infections, and oral rehydration therapy against diarrhoea.
  • measures include the provision of free insecticide-treated bed nets against malaria, and education in improved family care and breast-feeding practices.
  • Illnesses such as polio and neonatal tetanus have been virtually eradicated.
  • Japanese figures show fewer than two deaths per 1,000 live births.
  • Tokyo has provided financial aid for the procurement of drugs and preventive materials.
  • Annually, about 73,000 children in Malawi die from preventable diseases. One in every five children dies before she or he is a month old, and one in every eight dies before her or his fifth birthday.
  • Malnutrition is associated with 54 percent of all children's deaths in Malawi, says the country's former advisor for health, Wesley Sangala. According to him, seven in 10 deaths of under-five children are attributable to diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections, measles, malaria and nutritional deficiencies.
  • She points out that malnutrition rates among Malawian children have not improved significantly since 1992.
  • Almost half of all children under the age of five (48 percent) are stunted, 22 percent are underweight, 59 percent suffer from vitamin A deficiency, and 80 percent are anaemic.
  • Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07
     
    Describes Malawi's progress towards achieving the MDG of child mortality. Has a lot of really, really good statistics. Particularly important are the things that have worked to make a difference in child mortality rates, and the specific diseases that most commonly cause death in children in Malawi.
kgarland

World Simulation Ideas - 95 views

I think it would be great to add more natural disasters, along with trying to bring out the slave trade, I think we could make the slave trade more part of the game. Also I think it would be great ...

worldsim

started by Mike Wesch on 18 May 07 37 follow-ups, last by kgarland on 29 May 07
jcoop11

Science fact sheet- traditional Maori fisheries - 0 views

www.starfish.govt.nz/...fact-traditional-maori.htm

cultures pacific trade

shared by jcoop11 on 17 May 07 - Cached
  • Traditional Maori fishing operations were very well organised. Different tribes had their own fishing areas. Tribal boundaries were marked by landmarks and stakes and protected against trespassers. Fishing was often a community activity. Tasks involved everything from observing the movement of schools of fish and making gear, to catching and processing the fish. Early Maori knew a great deal about the life cycles of different fish. A fishing calendar was developed to work out when certain fish should be caught, what techniques to use, and whether it should be during the day or night. Kaimoana was a very important trading item. Coastal tribes traded it with inland iwi for goods such as birds, berries or workable stone. In Canterbury, Kaipoihai pa was a trading pa with eight different gates. It was similar to European trading sites in the middle ages.When Europeans arrived, Maori started trading with them. They bartered fish for other goods or sold it for cash. They exported fish to Australia in the early 19th century.
  • Maori are very knowledgeable and skilled fishers. Lines were made from flax fibre and sinkers from stones. Hooks were made from wood, bone, stone or shell. Sometimes a gorge was used instead of a hook. It was a straight piece of bone, sharp at each end and attached in the middle. When the line was pulled it turned sideways and caught in the fish's throat.
sleavitt

The Yes Men - 0 views

www.theyesmen.org/dow

conservation_sustainability corporations natural_resources

shared by sleavitt on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • sleavitt on 28 May 07
     
    "The Yes Men agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of their hijinks to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of business. In other words, the Yes Men are team players... but they play for the opposing team."

    Interesting way of doing business-incriminating evidence straight from the horse's mouth?  The evidence against Dow is pretty substantial.
Ryan Felber

Drug Access | Lack of Doctors, Health Workers in Developing Countries Hinders Fight Aga... - 0 views

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healthcare

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  • Ryan Felber on 28 May 07
     
    Tells of how we are seriously lacking doctors and what that is doing to countries in Asia and other places.
Amanda Stueve

LABOUR: Reversing South Africa's Brain Drain - 0 views

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braindrain healthcare southafrica

shared by Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • the country's dark days of post-apartheid crime, that triggered an exodus of the white population are over. According to them new opportunites are building up and there is no more ‘reverse discrimination' against whites.
  • The reality today is that if you are black, young, and male, your chances of being affected by crime is much higher,
  • Whites constitute most of the South African expatriates.
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  • encouraging trends
  • one white for every 11 blacks in the population, of every 33 murder victims only one is white
  • while blacks still account for 31 percent of the unemployed, the rate for the whites was only five percent.
  • Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07
     
    Ok. Wow. I so did not think of white South Africans when I thought about African professionals. The statistics they are using to try to convince white expatriates to return to South Africa are very interesting.
jcoop11

THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS AND MALARIA Dealing a Blow to Third World Diseases | IN FOCUS, 4.3 - 0 views

infocusmagazine.org/...aids_malaria.html

healthcare

shared by jcoop11 on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • jcoop11 on 29 May 07
     
    The impact of AIDS and Malaria, plus a possible solution.
Aaron Scott

Project Concern International: Health and poverty solutions for children in need - Proj... - 0 views

www.projectconcern.org/...PageServer

health poverty projectconcern

shared by Aaron Scott on 27 May 07 - Cached
  • Aaron Scott on 27 May 07
     
    This organization works to fight against poverty by providing health care and development to those communities and families that can't afford it. Interestingly, on its mission statement page, one of its operating principles listed is Accountability, which is what Easterly said was one of the things that seperated planners and searchers.
Josh Sparkman

International Criminal Court : Article - 0 views

www.icc-cpi.int/...201.html

child soldiers

shared by Josh Sparkman on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Josh Sparkman on 28 May 07
     
    A militia leader tried for breaking int'l law against child soldiers
kgarland

YouTube - World Hunger: Africa - 0 views

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africa against fight hunger

shared by kgarland on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • kgarland on 29 May 07
     
    Shows the struggle and battle that africa has with hunger.
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