2015年2月4日 星期三

2015-02-05 South Africa Health


Yellow Fever Low Risk in Southern Africa   
AllAfrica.com
All travellers arriving into South Africa from Zambia, Tanzania, Eritrea, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe will no longer be required to produce proof of the yellow fever certificate, says the Health Ministry. This following the countries recently being included on ...


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The Mary Sue
   
Transgender children are not confused, study finds   
The Globe and Mail
Transgender youngsters identify as much with their genders as do non-transgender children, a new study says. The findings indicate that transgender children are not confused or delayed in their understanding of gender, as some have suggested, write the ...

Why Transparent Has Lost The Trust Of The Trans Community   The Mary Sue
11 myths about transgender people   Vox
For Transgender Students, Business Schools Are a Transition   New York Times
News-Medical.net   
PinkNews   
Women24   
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The News International
   
The new Ebola target number: Zero cases   
Washington Post
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is entering a critical and complicated new phase, one that global health officials refer to simply as “getting to zero.” Even as cases continue to plummet, reaching that elusive goal means marshaling more resources than ever ...

New Ebola cases show first rise in 2015   BBC News
Weekly Ebola case total rises for 1st time this year   Fox News Latino
Ebola Trial Vaccine Anxiety: Legislature Summons Executors   Front Page Africa
Bloomberg   
Sierra Leone Times   
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Reuters UK
   
African Union unit says developing epidemic insurance   
Reuters UK
A woman walks past an isolation ward (R) set aside for Ebola related cases at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in the capital Nairobi in this file photo taken on August 19, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Noor Khamis ...


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New York Times
   
Ebola Drug Trial Has Encouraging Early Results, and Questions Follow   
New York Times
For the first time, a drug is showing promising signs of effectiveness in Ebola patients participating in a study. The medicine, which interferes with the virus's ability to copy itself, seems to have halved mortality — to 15 percent, from 30 percent — in patients with ...

Hollande hails encouraging results of Ebola treatement trial   GlobalPost
France says results of trials in Guinea of anti-Ebola drug encouraging   WHBL Sheboygan

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News Tonight Africa
   
Tweeting about sexism might improve woman's well-being, study   
News Tonight Africa
According to a new study, openly expressing sexism on social networking sites including Twitter might improve women's wellbeing. Researchers at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada found that women who tweet publically, usually show a feeling of ...

Sexism: Tweeting About It May Improve A Woman's Well-Being   University Herald
Tweeting about sexism good for the soul   The New Age Online
Dealing with sexism at work? Tweeting helps, apparently   htxt.africa
India.com   
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MSF says lack of public health messages on Ebola "big mistake" - TRFN   
Reuters Africa
CONAKRY, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) made the "big mistake" of focusing too much on treatment early on in the Ebola epidemic rather than speaking to people about tackling the disease, a senior member of the ...


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Live Science
   
Babies Understand Friendship, Bullies and Bystanders   
Live Science
Babies who are just over a year old already comprehend complex social interactions — they understand what other people know and don't know, and expect them to behave accordingly, new research shows. In the new study, 13-month-olds who watched a ...

Are babies more intelligent than we think? Infants aware of complex ...   Daily Mail
Babies can make sense of complex social situations, study   News Tonight Africa

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Daily Mail
   
A fear of the Pill, condoms and coils leads to 15m unwanted pregnancies ...   
Daily Mail
Millions of women worldwide endure unwanted pregnancies each year because they are fearful of modern forms of contraception, a report has claimed. In fact, 40 per cent of women who avoid contraception do so because they worry about the side effects ...

Modern Birth Control Methods Could Avoid 15 Million Unwanted Pregnancies ...   U.S. News & World Report
Highest number of unwanted pregnancies in India: WHO   Livemint
15 million unwanted pregnancies annually due to fear of contraceptives: study   Times LIVE
Voice of America   
Clinical Advisor   
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Jonathan Signs Anti-Discrimination Bill Into Law   
Daily Trust
President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the HIV and AIDS Anti-Discrimination Act 2014 into law reflecting Nigeria's commitment to stopping all forms of stigmatization and discrimination targeted at people living with HIV. This makes provisions for the ...


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