· March, 2007

Stories about Health from March, 2007

Africa: women and smoking

  8 March 2007

Jackie Tumwine asks, “Does tobacco empower the African woman?”: “The low female smoking rates in Africa are due to the social and cultural taboo against women smoking and not due to health awareness. The tobacco industry, in order to maintain profits, is steadily breaking these cultural norms through its aggressive...

Egypt: $450m for Bird Flu Campaign

Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey links to a news article which says that his country will be spending $450 million to conduct a nationwide campaign to vaccinate live poultry against avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu. “But don't you start spreading rumors that we might be having a Birdflu epidemic or...

Palestine: Film on Benghazi Aids Epidemic

Palestinian blogger Haitham Sabbah links to a video highlighting the plight of a Palestinian doctor and a group of Bulgarian nurses accused of inflicting more than 400 children with the deadly Aids virus in Ben Ghazi, Libya, here. “Injection is the real-life story of six health care workers falsely accused...

Bahrain: A female preacher who gave something extra

This week Mahmood Al Yousif, who is facing legal action regarding comments he made on his blog, refers to the supposed freedom of expression in Bahrain: No sooner than our king vowing to protect the freedoms of expression in Bahrain, than we get yet another journalist dragged in for questioning...

Egypt: Bird Flu Update

Egypt is recorded as the hardest hit country outside Asia by bird flu, writes Freedom for Egyptians here. She adds that the four-year-old girl is the disease's latest victim in her country.

Singapore: Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy

  1 March 2007

Kitana blogs in response to a news story in Singapore that talked about a 9 year old girl getting pregnant. The blogger feels that objective sex education should be a must in schools. “I’m irritated at the lack of objective sex education in schools. There is all this moral talk...

Botswana: blessed is the hand that giveth

  1 March 2007

Nata Village clinic staff are excited about their new protective gowns, “These gowns will make their jobs a little easier and help to put their minds at rest when treating patients. The staff at Nata clinic wish to thank all of you who have donated to this website. The total...

China: Mosquito Fish

  1 March 2007

Tim Beckenham from Shanghaiist reports about the plan to introduce Mosquite fish to solve the problem of potential mosquito plague.

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