· November, 2006

Stories about Health from November, 2006

Croatia: Legalization of Prostitution

  9 November 2006

Lovorka Marinovic, coordinator of the trafficking prevention program of international organization IOM, says (HRV): Research conducted by IOM shows an enormous lack of relevant data about trafficking despite the issue's relevance for the region. According to the collected info, about 1,300 of the total 6,000 women that were sold in...

Madagascar: Franco-Malagasy Solidarity

  8 November 2006

Harinjaka is happy that a local French NGO is flying Francia, a local girl in need of specialized surgery, to France for the operation but thinks (Fr): “the best way to help Madagascar is to give Malagasies the means to develop their own thinking and methods, rather than offering them...

Puerto Rico: Mosquito experiments

  6 November 2006

“For things like this the colony has always been useful,” says (ES) Tinta Digital, discussing a series of experiments conducted on mosquitos in poor communities in Puerto Rico by the Centers for Disease Control.

Argentina: Blog de Alzheimers

  3 November 2006

Mariano Amartino applauds the concept [ES] of Mal de Alzheimer [ES[, a weblog which aggregates experiences, resources, and information regarding Alzheimer's Disease.

Russia: Moscow's (In)Accessibility

  3 November 2006

Perekhod: an underground walkway in Moscow – by Digenis.org The hype surrounding the Russian blogosphere's fate has subsided, and the collective attention has shifted to the fate of tomorrow's Russian March. One Moscow blogger, however, is concerned about something quite different: LJ user kmaka (quoted in a recent translation) and...

Japan: Dolphin meat

  3 November 2006

Kaishin in Japundit blogs about the recent discussion about dolphin hunting in Japan. Health specialists pointed out that bottlenose dolphin meat contains high quantities of mythril mercury, a dangerous toxic form of mercury, that may cause various ailments as brain or nerve damage. Lee in Tokyo Times also discusses about...

Bangladesh: The privileged and the poor

  2 November 2006

Drishtipat on how the gap between the privileged and the poor in Bangladesh is still wide. “Simply put, it’s because our policy makers, our industrialists, the rich and the beautiful in our society don’t have to deal with this joke of a system. They either go abroad or they go...

Africa: Swahili computer game

  1 November 2006

Mental Acrobatics announces the release of, probably, the first computer game in Swahili, “The first ever Kiswahili computer game? That didn’t sound right but then again I can not think of any other Kiswahili computer game. Perhaps someone out there knows of one? If so please share it with us.”

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