Ethiopia news - Health

Ethiopia: IRC oo biyo dhamin & dayactir ka wada Qoraxay iyo dhagaxbuur iyo Mobility o adegyo cafimad ka wada Jijiga

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:01:47 -0700

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Sat, 2008-09-13 06:00

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Jijiga(Kilil5)---Haayada Caalamiga ah ee IRC (International Rescue Committee) ayaa waxay adeegyo kala duwan ka wadaa Gobolada Qoraxay iyo Dhagaxbuur. Haayadu waxay biyo dhaamin iyo dayactiro ceelasha iyo barkadaha ah ka waday goboladan dhawrkii bilood ee lasoo dhaafay. Qaar kamida shaqaalaha haayadaas oo aan waraysi layeelanay ayaa noo sheegay in haayadu baryahandambeba ku hawlanayd biyadhaamin si ay gar gaar ugaadhsiiso dadka ay biyalaantu aadka usaamaysay ee goboladaas, haayadu waxay ceel gacmeedyo ka qodeen Bullaale, Goomaar, Qabridahar, Gurdumi. Waxaa kale oo ay dayactir iyo dhoobo qaad ka wadaan Labo Bali oo waawayn oo kukala yaala Kaam Abokor iyo Awaare. Bali Biyoodka Kaam Abokor ayaa hore ulahaan Jiray Bac wayn oo ku goglan si ayna biyaha caradu u liqin xiliga kulaylka ah balse ay xoolihii iyo dadki reer guuraaga ahaa ee ka cabi jiray baligaasi ay dil dilaaciyeen biyihiina uu siidaayay. Haayadu waxaysaari doonaan Bacda biyaha kaydisa marka ay dhoobo qaadaan labadan ceel. Waxaa kale oo ay haayadu garabwadaa dayactirkan biyo dhaamin ay sadex booyadood kaga hawlganaan gobolka dhagaxbuur kuwaas oo biyaha kasoo dhaamiya Magaalada dhagaxbuur Ceelka Tawlane geeyan qabaleeyo aad uga fog sida Dusmo, Dhagaxtuur, Awaare, Gunagado iyo Gurdumi.

KENYA: High levels of HIV stigma persist in north Eastern

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:23:04 -0700

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Thu, 2008-08-21 21:00

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IJARA, 21 August 2008 (IRIN) - For the past ten months, health workers at Ijara District Hospital in Kenya's North Eastern Province have been caring for two children, aged six and seven, who were abandoned by their father after he discovered he was HIV-positive. Nurses say the children were weak, malnourished and suffering from tuberculosis when they arrived.

ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA: Drought, fighting worsens situation of "Ogaden refugees"

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:41:09 -0700

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Wed, 2008-08-13 05:00

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NAIROBI, 12 August 2008 (IRIN) - Drought and recent fighting around the town of Beletweyne, in central Somalia's Hiiraan region, have aggravated the plight of at least 1,000 Ethiopian refugee families, who were already facing acute food shortages, local sources told IRIN.

KENYA: Pastoralist livelihoods hurt by disease

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:48:44 -0700

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Tue, 2008-08-05 14:00

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ISIOLO, 5 August 2008 (IRIN) - Pastoralists in northern Kenya have said their livelihoods have been seriously affected by a viral disease that has killed 2.7 million goats and sheep in the past two years.

ETHIOPIA: Outlook bleak for pastoral regions as crops fail

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:38:26 -0700

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Tue, 2008-07-29 20:00

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NAIROBI, 29 July 2008 (IRIN) - The humanitarian situation in Ethiopia's pastoral regions of Afar, Amhara, Somali and Tigray is likely to deteriorate because seasonal crops have failed and livestock numbers have fallen, according to preliminary findings of a recent assessment mission.

Millions of Africans facing starvation

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:15:34 -0700

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Mon, 2008-07-28 14:00

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By Mike Pflanz

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Millions of Africans are again facing looming famine, prompting yet another international call for food aid less than two years after the last appeal.

Raaso Hospital

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:43:16 -0700

Raaso Hospital under construction. The hospital is scheduled to be opened early next year.Once completed, it will be the second largest hospital in the Somali region of Ethiopia with two hundred beds,laboratory, and its own ambulances.

Alarming malnutrition situation in children in southern Ethiopia brings immediate outreach programmes to increasing needs

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:47:48 -0700

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Fri, 2008-07-18 11:00

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MSF

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In order to treat as many children as possible, a network of 47 outreach therapeutic programs provide therapeutic food and medical care on an outpatient basis.

Drought in the Somali regional State.

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:26:40 -0700

By the end of May 2008, millions faced hunger in the Somali region of Ethiopia as crops failed and food prices soared.Two successive seasons of poor rains left the region in drought, and the effect on vegetation is shown in this Satelite image on may 20.

FEATURE-Kenya's nomads feel pain of food price rises

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:16:53 -0700

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Fri, 2008-05-09 06:00

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By Hereward Holland

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EL RAM, Kenya, May 9 - It is tempting to romanticise the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-coloured soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky.

WTO deal seen having little impact on food prices-ANALYSIS

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:31:08 -0700

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Fri, 2008-04-18 13:00

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By Jonathan Lynn and Missy Ryan

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GENEVA/WASHINGTON, April 18 - Soaring food prices have surfaced as a big concern in the delicately poised agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). But because any WTO deal will have an impact only in the long term, the Geneva talks will not offer a solution to the immediate crisis, diplomats and officials say.

Health damage from climate change has already started

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:40:01 -0700

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Mon, 2008-04-07 15:00

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by Megan Rowling

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We've already had several sneak previews of how climate change is going to be bad for our health.

From mosquito-borne diseases that jump from cows to people in East Africa, to a heatwave that killed thousands of elderly Europeans, to malaria starting to appear in the highlands of Rwanda and Swaziland in abnormally hot summers. And outbreaks of cholera as more floods hit coastal communities with poor sanitation, mixing sewage with drinking water supplies amid fetid heat.

High School Students in Woodbury, USA , Assist Denan Health Project

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:49:56 -0700

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Thu, 2008-03-27 09:00

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BETHLEHEM-WOODBURY - Students at Nonnewaug High School offered their third annual Battle of the Bands concert Friday, March 14, to benefit the Denan Project, a local group that built and maintains a free hospital in poverty-stricken eastern Ethiopia.

Ethiopia:A treacherous trek to the crater's edge

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:47:32 -0700

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Mon, 2008-03-24 10:00

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By SARAH STUTEVILLE

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DILLO, Ethiopia -- "Just breathe," I comforted myself as I shuffled slowly through the dusty gravel. "One breath with each step," I repeated raggedly as 50 pounds of brackish water sloshed rhythmically against the sides of the muddy yellow jerrycan strapped to my back.

Quenching the thirst: Seattle brings the most precious liquid abroad

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:45:40 -0700

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Mon, 2008-03-24 10:00

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By SARAH STUTEVILLE

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- It was early morning and a dozen Westerners, mostly Seattleites, were getting ready to leave the capital for a three-day visit to water-development projects in Oromia, one of this country's largest rural states.