by Beth | Aug 14, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Nearly 18,300 new cases of invasive cancer were diagnosed each year from 1988 through 2000 in Louisiana, according to a report released by the Louisiana Tumor Registry.More than 237,600 cases of invasive were diagnosed in that 13-year period...
by Beth | Aug 5, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The international site of the Daughters of Charity has an abstract of the testimony shared by Sr. Adelfa Siega (Province of Thailand) during the XVth International HIV-AIDS Conference (July 11-16, 2004, Bangkok, Thailand) upon the request of the organizing committee....
by Beth | Jul 28, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Facing the possibility of a major malaria epidemic, Ethiopia has joined with UNICEF and the World Health Organization to raise nearly $7 million for new medicines to fight the disease, the United Nations said yesterday. U.N. Agencies Join Ethiopia’s Call For $7...
by Beth | Jul 5, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“United States patent 6,708,443, a wide-ranging patent covering several approaches that he contends might help control mosquito populations across wide areas such as wetlands or regions in Africa where mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria are rampant. Most of...
by Beth | Jul 3, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
According to the Center for Disease Control, “In several instances over the past decade, malaria incidence in Canada as a whole, or in individual provinces, reached epidemic levels.”Why some were not immediately identified and why no comprehensive analysis...