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Health · August, 2006
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Stories about Health from August, 2006

30 August 2006

The beautiful island of Guimaras, located in central Philippines, is under state of calamity. More than 26,000 people who depend on fishing suddenly lost their livelihood after tanker MT Solar...

29 August 2006

Jamaica: Singles

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Africans in France: Riots’ First Anniversary

Written by Alice Backer · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya: “I am African” Aids campaign criticised

Written by Andrew Heavens · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

25 August 2006

Thailand: Medical Tourism

Written by Preetam Rai · Quick Reads · East Asia

23 August 2006

Africa: Is the Battle against AIDS Lost?

Written by Alice Backer · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Hong Kong: opium history

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

22 August 2006

Estonia: 15 Things

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

21 August 2006

Central Asia & Caucasus: 15 Years of Independence

Written by Nathan Hamm · Quick Reads · Central Asia & Caucasus

18 August 2006

Jamaica: Attending the AIDS conference

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Quick Reads · Caribbean

17 August 2006

Russia, Estonia: Forest Fires

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Estonia

16 August 2006

Americas: Eating in the USA

Written by David Sasaki · Quick Reads · North America

10 August 2006

Japan: western business practice

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

9 August 2006

Barbados: HIV/AIDS messages

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Quick Reads · Caribbean

China: Hooker unions, uniting bloggers and qualitative and quantitative data from the Chinese blogsphere

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

One stock narrative for MSM reports on China is the untabooing of sex since Mao died. Indeed, a trip to the countryside reveals unsettling numbers of STD treatment posters and...

8 August 2006

Trinidad & Tobago: Smelter activity continues

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Quick Reads · Caribbean

5 August 2006

Philippines: Alcoholism in Philippines

Written by Preetam Rai · Quick Reads · East Asia

4 August 2006

Voices from Kazakhstan

Written by Leila Tanayeva · Central Asia & Caucasus

Welcome to our latest round-up of blog posts and online discussions that took place in the Kazakhstani blogosphere in the last two weeks. We start off with Russian-language neweurasia Kazakhstan...