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Nicola Ruotolo is an intern in CNN's Rome bureau - CNN

Nicola Ruotolo is an intern in CNN's Rome bureau
CNN
In "Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security," presented at a news conference in Rome on Monday, the group's etnomophagy experts shared compelling evidence suggesting that increased intake of insects would promote health, wealth and ...
Breed insects to improve human food securityAuthint Mail

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Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 14 May 2013 | 11:17 am

See-and-treat approach can rein in Cambodia's cervical cancer death toll - The Guardian

The Guardian

See-and-treat approach can rein in Cambodia's cervical cancer death toll
The Guardian
A single visit see-and-treat approach eliminates the risk of loss to follow-up, a particular problem in countries like Cambodia where there is no referral system. The Cambodian ministry of health introduced cervical cancer screening using VIA two years ...
QIAGEN joins Cambodia's cervical cancer awareness campaign and ...EIN News (press release)

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Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 14 May 2013 | 10:25 am

Gisborne nurse awarded for caring at the limits - New Zealand Doctor Online

Gisborne nurse awarded for caring at the limits
New Zealand Doctor Online
Primary care in conflict areas and chronic emergency zones, like Cambodia and Iraq, has been similar to New Zealand but reduced to its bare essentials, award winning Red Cross nurse Janet Askew says. The services may be similar - from immunisations to ...

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Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 14 May 2013 | 5:15 am

Direct Relief Women Raises Funds for 4000 Safe Births at Annual Mother's Day ... - Santa Barbara Independent

Santa Barbara Independent

Direct Relief Women Raises Funds for 4000 Safe Births at Annual Mother's Day ...
Santa Barbara Independent
The organization, which provides education, nourishment, and healing to vulnerable children from some of Cambodia's most destitute communities, runs one of the only free health care programs serving all ages in the country – treating about 100 patients ...

Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 14 May 2013 | 12:23 am

Lalich to leave county health - Daily Astorian

Lalich to leave county health
Daily Astorian
With a passion for social justice and promoting health care, Lalich has been involved globally with Medical Teams International of Portland and served in Uganda, Cambodia, Macedonia and Moldova. She said her love has always been the global connection ...

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Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 13 May 2013 | 6:30 pm

PH one of worst places to be a mom in Southeast Asia

It's apparently not so fun in the Philippines for mothers, as a new report ranked the country as one of the worst places in Southeast Asia to be a mother.

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 12 May 2013 | 3:04 am

WHO says Cambodia can end HIV infections by 2020

Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 10 May 2013 | 11:17 am

Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020: health experts - Xinhua

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Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020: health experts
Xinhua
"Having reviewed available data, documents and reports and carried out on-site observations and interviews, the Review of the National Health Sector Response to HIV concluded that Cambodia was on track moving towards the ambitious goal of eliminating ...
WHO says Cambodia can end HIV infections by 2020Channel News Asia

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Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 10 May 2013 | 8:55 am

Migrant kids in Thailand struggle to learn

Refugees have trouble with language skills and education but a new school is working to improve things.

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 8 May 2013 | 10:42 am

Apparel Retailers Confront Tough Options

The recent spate of garment-factory disasters in Bangladesh spotlights the poor working conditions in that country. But for big apparel retailers seeking better standards—without giving up low-wage workers—the ...

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 8 May 2013 | 8:06 am

Despite economic gains, PHL declines in maternal welfare

Despite the much-trumpeted economic gains of the Aquino administration, maternal welfare in the country remains in need of much government attention. According to the study State of World Mothers 2013 by the charity group Save the Children, of the 176 nations surveyed, the Philippines, along with Indonesia, is at 106th spot, a drop from 95th place last year. Other Southeast Asian neighbors fared ...

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 7 May 2013 | 12:53 pm

Midwives urged to use skills abroad

Midwives from across the UK have been urged to use their skills abroad in a bid to curb the number of women who die from preventable complications during pregnancy and childbirth.

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 4 May 2013 | 11:11 pm

The Pope and Godless Capitalism

"This is called slave labor," said Pope Francis.

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 3 May 2013 | 7:00 am

Social policies like MGNREGS can tackle child labour: Report

New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Social protection policies such as MGNREGS and the direct cash transfer scheme can play a key role in fighting child labour, a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said Monday.

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 29 Apr 2013 | 1:14 pm

Gene clues point to Cambodia for resistant malaria - Geo News, Pakistan

Geo News, Pakistan

Gene clues point to Cambodia for resistant malaria
Geo News, Pakistan
"These recent developments have grave implications for public health, as artemisinin derivatives are the mainstay of malaria treatment worldwide." Western Cambodia has unleashed "successive global waves" of antimalarial drug resistance, the ...
Parasite 'resistant to malaria drug artemisinin'BBC News
'Fingerprinting' malaria parasite drug resistance offers new tool for tracking ...Wellcome Trust
Study: Cambodian parasites resistant to most effective antimalarial drugWired.co.uk
AllAfrica.com -NHS Choices -The Guardian
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Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 28 Apr 2013 | 9:32 pm

Gene clues point to Cambodia for resistant malaria

Gene analysis of malaria parasites has pinpointed western Cambodia as the hotspot of strains that are dangerously resistant to artesiminin, the frontline drug against the disease, scientists said on Sunday.

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 28 Apr 2013 | 4:10 pm

West Hartford Clinic Helps Cambodian Refugees Deal With Trauma - Hartford Courant

West Hartford Clinic Helps Cambodian Refugees Deal With Trauma
Hartford Courant
WEST HARTFORD — — As a young woman in Cambodia, Theanvy Kuoch spent her days doing back-breaking labor, watching helplessly as 19 members of her family succumbed to abuse, disease and starvation. As she recounts the genocide of the ...

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Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 26 Apr 2013 | 1:27 pm

Program Launched to Counter Drug-Resistant Malaria - VOA - Voice of America

Voice of America

Program Launched to Counter Drug-Resistant Malaria - VOA
Voice of America
Six years ago, health researchers were worried after a strain of malaria in western Cambodia began to show resistance to the world's key malaria treatment - Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy, known as ACT. In response, the Cambodian government ...
Malaria Drug Resistance Draws 'Emergency Response'Radio Free Asia
emergency response to antimalarial drug resistanceWorld Health Organization (press release)
WHO starts program against new malaria strainDeutsche Welle
The Hindu -People's Daily Online -The Cambodia Daily (subscription)
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Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 25 Apr 2013 | 6:19 pm

Nutrition campaign helps make Cambodia's children strong, healthy and clever - UNICEF (press release)

UNICEF (press release)

Nutrition campaign helps make Cambodia's children strong, healthy and clever
UNICEF (press release)
A campaign to improve child nutrition in Cambodia is changing the way caregivers feed their children. KAMPONG THOM, Cambodia, 24 April 2013 – It is 8:00 a.m. in Ponleak village, Kampong Thom, and the sun is already high in the sky. A line of oxen amble ...

Source: Cambodia Health - Google News | 24 Apr 2013 | 9:57 pm

Malaria remains a major threat, say experts

New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The number of deaths from malaria might be steadily declining, but health experts believe the mosquito sting continues to pose a grave threat to millions in the country.

Source: Cambodia Health - Yahoo! News Search Results | 24 Apr 2013 | 9:56 am

Open letter to Cambodian PM and justice minister - Nation - Thailand

which is evidenced by the fact that he willingly returned to Cambodia, fully aware of arrest threats made against him. The denial of his bail application is particularly unacceptable as there are growing concerns over the health of Sonando, who has ...

Source: Cambodia Health - Bing News | 31 Jul 2012 | 5:07 pm

Consultancy - MCH Advisor - 12 months (August 2012 to July 2013) - Reliefweb.int

Presentation and discussion of results at MEDiCAM (Cambodia’s health NGO forum) Activity 3: Presentation and discussion of results at Disability Action Council (DAC) during regular meeting of childhood disability group Objective 3: A Disability Detection ...

Source: Cambodia Health - Bing News | 31 Jul 2012 | 3:27 pm

Health exec: Boy in Benguet confirmed to have deadly EV71 virus - gmanetwork.com

A five-year-old boy in Benguet has been confirmed to be the second person in the Philippines to contract the deadly enterovirus 71 (EV71) hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) that has killed several children in Cambodia, a health official said on Tuesday.

Source: Cambodia Health - Bing News | 30 Jul 2012 | 11:56 pm

Increase in Genomic Replikin Counts Predicted Recent Avian Flu (H5N1) Outbreak in Cambodia - Marketwatch

Nature Precedings doi:10.1038/npre.2012.6952.1 2. WHO and Ministry of Health, Cambodia Press Releases. August 23, 2011 and June 5, 2012 3. UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) discussion of Replikins. DVM Newsmagazine Rome Sept.

Source: Cambodia Health - Bing News | 30 Jul 2012 | 10:16 pm

Dengue fever epidemic in Cambodia may meet match with new vaccine - GlobalPost

Although the epidemic is bad, it's not the worst in Cambodia's history, pointed out Steven Bjorge, team leader for malaria and other vector-borne diseases at the World Health Organization's Cambodia office. A 2007 epidemic killed 407 and infected 39,861 ...

Source: Cambodia Health - Bing News | 28 Jul 2012 | 5:36 am

Asia's Health Workers Scramble to Contain HFMD Outbreak - Voice of America

Cambodia’s Ministry of Public Health and the WHO later issued a joint statement confirming hand, foot, and mouth disease claimed the lives of 54 children. Doctors have blamed some of the higher death rates on clinics using steroids to treat the symptoms ...

Source: Cambodia Health - Bing News | 25 Jul 2012 | 5:00 pm