2015年8月12日 星期三

2015-08-13 South Africa Health


Independent Online
   
Paraplegics are making great strides   
Independent Online
Carlton Mabusela is strapped into a robot-assisted walking machine to help him regain the ability to walk. Photo: Nokuthula Mbatha/The Star. 1/4. August 12 2015 at 08:46pm. Johannesburg - He looks like a robot and sounds like one too. But every now and ...


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National Geographic
   
It's Been One Year Since Africa Had a Polio Case. Can This Last?   
National Geographic
At midnight Tuesday night—Aug. 11, 2015—the continent of Africa passed a quiet milestone: one full year since the recognition of its last case of polio. As a journalist, my job is to try to be objective, and to not be a partisan or booster. But I ...
Africa Marks Polio-Free Year   Tolerance.ca
Africa celebrates one year without polio: UN   Times LIVE
Africa celebrates one year without polio   News24
New York Times   
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Times LIVE
   
Sexy ads don't work - people remember the sexy and not the product : Wits study   
Times LIVE
Marketers go “to extreme measures and use shock advertising to attract consumers' attention”‚ but it doesn't seem to work. Save & Share. Email · Print. That's according to a paper‚ penned by Wits student Brandon Urwin and lecturer Marike Venter‚ which ...

Wits study: Shock advertising has become obsolete   Eyewitness News

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IT Decisions
   
UNICEF strives to keep schools in West Africa Ebola-free   
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The UN Children's Fund ( UNICEF) and its partners are helping to carry out measures to make schools in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone safe from Ebola transmission, said a UN spokesman at Wednesday's daily ...

Kenya refuses refuge to 'Ebola' chimps   News24
Kenya refuses refuge to chimps from Ebola-hit Liberia   Reuters
SLFA awaits LFA over venue   Sierra Express Media
Prensa Latina   
CIDRAP   
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Rapid News Network
   
WC targets thousands for HPV campaign   
Rapid News Network
Professor Michael Herbst, head of health at the Cancer Association of SA, said parents were within their rights to refuse vaccination for their young daughters, but could regret that decision later in life. “If you want to interrupt the circulation of ...
HPV vaccine is neither safe nor effective   Baltimore Sun
Cervical cancer fight begins in W Cape   Independent Online
Ask the Expert: What you need to know about HPV   Muncie Star Press
Junior College   
Mail & Guardian Online   
KFOX El Paso   
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Fox News
   
At least 20 000 infected in southeast DRC measles outbreak   
News24
Kinshasa - A measles outbreak in the copper-mining Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 315 people and infected at least 20 000, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Hundreds more deaths have likely not been documented ...

Congo Measles Outbreak Infects at Least 20000   TIME
At least 20000 infected in southeast Congo measles outbreak, UN says   Fox News
Pygmies killed by rival tribe in Democratic Republic of Congo   The Australian (blog)
International Business Times   
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The Nation
   
Chasing fair skin, Ivorians ignore whitening cream ban   
postzambia.com
At just 26, Fatou's skin is marbled from layer on layer of whitening cream. Some even call her a “salamander” woman after the little reptile with light spots and translucent skin. But nothing can stop the hairdresser in Ivory Coast's commercial capital ...
Despite Ban, Ivorian Women Still Using Dangerous Skin Lightening Cream   Chem.Info
The shocking effects of Skin Bleaching   Citizen
Ivorians take little notice of whitening cream ban   BDlive

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BDlive
   
SPCA lays fresh charges against ostrich farmers   
BDlive
NEW charges of animal cruelty will be laid against ostrich farmers and the Ostrich Business Chamber in the Western Cape, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) said on Tuesday. The SPCA said inspections carried out at several ...

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News24
   
Homosexuality not to blame for rise in Zim prison HIV cases - gay group   
News24
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 91, has showed signs of fatigue during celebrations to mark the country's Defence Forces Day, a report says. Zwelithini wanted Zim trip kept secret – report · Zwelithini welcome in Zimbabwe, activists say · Mugabe ...

Gays not to blame for prison HIV rise, GALZ   New Zimbabwe.com

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expressandstar.com
   
Chewing the fat   
expressandstar.com
In terms of kitchen 'outlaws', sugar has completely overtaken fat as public enemy number one. P-e22dd7bb-4325-4ebc-b7cb-3417fd50fbc2. In fact, fat has been making something of a comeback in recent years, and the latest advocates to sing its praises are ...

Video: Tim Noakes Chats to Bonang Matheba About Banting While Jonno Proudfoot ...   Books LIVE (blog)

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