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Nov 26th 2008Drug InformationAid / Disasters
In an editorial in this week’s PLoS Medicine, the journal’s editors discuss some of the controversies surrounding international food aid, and conclude that “donor-supported food programs are not enough as a long term strategy” for addressing malnutrition.
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Nov 26th 2008Drug InformationAid / Disasters
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that it is launching an emergency food operation to help 580,000 vulnerable people during the bitterly cold season in Kyrgyzstan - many of whom have felt the impact of a combination of high food prices and a fall in remittances from expatriates working abroad. “Winter is a brutal time in Kyrgyzstan.
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Nov 26th 2008Drug InformationAid / Disasters
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine last week said that five of the 10 acute-care hospitals in the New Orleans area continue to have financial problems three years after Charity Hospital was shuttered after Hurricane Katrina, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports. At a meeting with the
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