Stories: Health Services
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Health Conditions in South Eastern Turkey, Gatekeepers 2008
Rural villages in South Eastern Turkey are among the poorest in the country. The lack of development and affordable clinics has created a dire health situation for many in these ...
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A New Approach to an Old Disease
Kenya - Charles Kimando, a doctor in Kenya, has long been frustrated with his limited arsenal of drugs to treat malaria. The parasitic disease makes its appearance after heavy rains ...
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Uganda grooms its future
KAMPALA, UGANDA - IN THE 46 years since gaining indendence from Great Britain, Uganda has moved from the murderously destructive era of Idi Amin and Milton Obote to more than two ...
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Cheap AIDS Drugs Bring Uganda Hope
Once a month, Jane Nandawula walks seven miles from her home to an AIDS clinic in Kasasa, a ramshackle collection of storefronts and huts clinging to a roadside in southwestern ...
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The Tuberculosis Epidemic in the South African Gold Mines
David Rochkind is a freelance photographer who just returned from five weeks reporting as an IRP Fellow in South Africa where he examined the tuberculosis epidemic in the mining ...
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Disease Detectives in Kenya
The World Health Organization reported that the H1N1 swine flu virus has now sickened just shy of 60,000 people. That’s the number of confirmed cases worldwide. Of those, just ...
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Where AIDS is a family affair
Kogelo, Kenya -- Accompanied by two HIV counselors, we left the Kogelo Dispensary, walked down a dirt road for a little while, and then veered off down a path that twists among ...
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Dispatch from China: Wrestling with Health care
Reporter's Notebook Like the United States, China is wrestling with its health care systems. And party officials are looking to the U.S. for good ideas as they struggle to provide ...
