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To Improve Global Health, Toilets Must Be Redesigned To Work Without Connection To Sanitation Grid The toilet is a magnificent thing. ... Unfortunately it is an impractical luxury for about two-thirds of the world s seven billion people because it relies on connections to water and sewerage systems that must be built and maintained at great expense, a聽Bloomberg editorial writes. About 40 percent of all people, an estimated 2.6 billion of them, have no access to even a minimally sanitary facility, according to the World Health Organization, and [t]he result is illness and early death. Diarrheal diseases, including those linked to improper sanitation, are the second largest killer in the developing world, taking two million lives annually, the editorial continues. Vaccines an
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Monday, Feb 11 2008Violence in Kenya Reducing Access to Antiretroviral
yeezy s Among People Living With HIV/AIDSThousands of people living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya have been forced to discontinue their antiretroviral treatment as a result of ongoing political violence throughout the country, the World AIDS Campaign said recently, Inter Press Service reports. About 21,000 people living with the disease have been displaced from their homes since the violence began in December 2007, according to the Kenya-based advocacy group United Civil Society Coalition for AIDS, TB and Malaria. Many people have not had access to clinics because of the violence or forced relocation, according to the World AIDS Campaign. Some people left their homes without the medical records required to access treatment, while others documents were lost when their houses were burned. Discontinuing treatment could have severe health implications at an individual level, and it also could lead to an increase in the number of new cases within refugee camps, advocates have said. In addition, HIV/AIDS-related stigma has made some people reluctant to seek available treatment because of fears that they will be ostracized, Allan Ragi, the executive director of the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium, said. Kenya was making s
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