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The Japan Committee for UNICEF (JCU) has for years endeavored to disseminate important information about children in developing countries and UNICEF’s various assistance programmes there, as well as to fundraise to support those programmes. Unprecedented damage caused by the East Japan Earthquake,... however, forced us to ask ourselves what we could do to help, and we wasted no time in contacting UNICEF Headquarters in New York.
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Over the past 50 years, dengue has spread from nine to over a hundred countries, making it the most rapidly spreading vector-borne disease. Yet, dengue continues to have a low profile among policy-makers and donors and does not receive the media attention it deserves. While there is no vaccine or cu...re for dengue, it can be managed and prevented. We need a renewed commitment to integrated programming that includes improved management and diagnosis, increased awareness and community participation in controlling the vector and enhanced environmental sanitation
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Lunsar, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone
BMC Family Practice201415:165, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-15-165
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Summary of key informant interviews with representatives of organizations providing, funding, or supporting WASH services to refugee populations
Public Health is the science field dedicated to promoting health and well-being, and preventing disease within the human population to ultimately increase the quality of our livelihood and life span. Public Health does not focus on individual patients or diseases, but rather a given population and ...health system. The discipline is community-centered in its interventions and seeks to improve the health status of whole populations...
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The growing problem of child marriage among Syrian girls in Jordan
What are the political, economic, social and security implications of the Ebola crisis, with a particular focus on Sierra Leone?
This document is a practical guide to the management of burn injuries for healthcare professionals everyhwere who are non-burn specialistsi