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  ASC_ Resources on African Health & Diseases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This hospital is in the western region of Rwanda near the city of Kibuye and Lake Kivu.
Karl Bremer Hospital is a second level referral hospital situated on the border of Parow and Bellville in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town.
Mvumi is a church hospital situated in the village of Mvumi Mission in Central Tanzania and is run under the auspices of the Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika.
www.africa.upenn.edu /health/hospitalsin1.htm   (1409 words)

  
 South Africa: Energy and Environmental Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
South Africa is especially vulnerable to oil spills due to the high volume of oil transported around the country's coasts by ships en route from the Middle East to Europe and the Americas.
South Africa, as part of a proposed $40 million GEF-funded project, is looking to prevent ship-based environmental contamination, such as oil spills from groundings and illegal discharges of ballast and bilge waters; and unsustainable exploitation of marine resources, such as illegal fishing and fishing practices.
South Africa is one of the most industrialized countries in Africa, but in comparison to "developed" countries, South Africa has lower levels of automobile and home appliance ownership per capita and consumes a higher proportion of "noncommercial" energy (such as fuel wood and paraffin).
www.eia.doe.gov /cabs/safrenv.html   (3008 words)

  
 Hospitals in Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, lithuania, Luxembourg
Hospitals in Austria - Hospitals in Austria -
Infectious Diseases Hospital of Thessaloniki - Infectious Diseases Hospital of Thessaloniki -
Westeinde Hospital, The Hague - Westeinde Hospital, The Hague -
www.escapeartist.com /Offshore_Health_Care/Europe.html   (2404 words)

  
 Africa: G8 Charade on Africa
Africa Policy Electronic Distribution List: an information service provided by AFRICA ACTION (incorporating the Africa Policy Information Center, The Africa Fund, and the American Committee on Africa).
Africa Action noted that the White House initiative to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS came days after President Bush had intervened to derail efforts in Congress to pass an additional $1 billion for the fight against AIDS.
Africa Action provides this information and analysis in order to promote U.S. and international policies toward Africa that advance economic, political and social justice and the full spectrum of human rights.
www.africaaction.org /docs02/g8-0206.htm   (1741 words)

  
 Hospitals in Africa – Web Listings
Hospitals in Africa - Hospitals in Africa - Hospitals in Asia (and Middle East) - Hospitals in Asia (and Middle East) - Hospitals in Australia and New...
List of hospitals in Africa Lists of hospitals for each country in Africa.
Members of the hospital staff are asked to volunteer one percent of their time to helping their sister hospital in Africa.
www.business.com /directory/health_care/facilities_and_health_systems/hospitals/africa/weblistings.asp   (484 words)

  
 FT.com / G8 summit - ‘Brain drain' puts Africa's hospitals on critical list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The recently completed district hospital in Thyolo in southern Malawi would not look out of place in a more developed country except for one thing the chronic shortage of medical staff.
Given that the cost of training a specialist doctor in Africa is estimated by the United Nations to be about $100,000, the exodus represents a $500m annual subsidy from Africa to wealthy nations.
Some hospitals have resorted to hiring local staff out of retirement in a bid to make up the shortfalls.
www.ft.com /cms/s/b14abdc0-ee43-11d9-98e5-00000e2511c8.html   (903 words)

  
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In his 15-minute speech, Hu pledged to double China's assistance to Africa during the next three years and to increase China's involvement in direct development aid.
Bottom of Hu's eight-point list of offers to Africa was a pledge to train 15,000 Africans, send 100 senior agricultural experts to Africa, build 60 hospitals and malaria clinics, provide Chinese-made anti-malaria drugs, send 300 youth workers to Africa, build 100 schools, and increase scholarships for Africans.
African presidents shunned by the West, like Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, both of whom are attending the summit, have shored up strong relationships with China based on extensive reserves of natural resources in their countries.
irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=56251&...+West_Africa   (791 words)

  
 List of hospitals in Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lists of hospitals for each country in Africa.
List of hospitals in Democratic Republic of the Congo
List of hospitals in Republic of the Congo
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Africa   (75 words)

  
 Hospitals in Oceania – Web Listings
List of hospitals in Australia · List of hospitals in Fiji · List of hospitals in Kiribati...
List of hospitals These are links to lists of hospitals around the world.
This is a list of hospitals in New Zealand.
www.business.com /directory/health_care/facilities_and_health_systems/hospitals/oceania/weblistings.asp   (511 words)

  
 Costa Rica Health:List of hospitals and doctors for cases of emergency,.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Costa Rica Health:List of hospitals and doctors for cases of emergency,.
List of hospitals and doctors for cases of emergency
It is always good to know that a country you are visiting has good medical facilities like hospitals and general practitioners.
www.justlanded.com /english/costa_rica/tools/articles/health   (57 words)

  
 Meeting suggests ways of strengthening the Role of Hospitals in National Health systems
Participants also agreed that in order to ensure enhanced collaboration between hospitals and other levels of the health system, health promotion and prevention activities should be co-opted as a function of hospitals.
On hospital financing mechanisms, the meeting urged governments to provide adequate funding for salaries and equipment; design user fee exemption guidelines which ensure access of the poor to services; encourage public-private partnerships, and make deliberate efforts to provide special funding for the management of HIV/AIDS; opportunistic infections and tuberculosis.
Closing the workshop, the Director of Programme Management at the WHO Regional Office for Africa, Dr Paul-Samson Lusamba-Dikassa said: “Services provided by hospitals need to be properly integrated so that there is a maximization of available resources to produce the desired outcome for patients.
www.afro.who.int /press/2006/pr20061025_2.html   (529 words)

  
 Category:Africa - Definition, explanation
Africa is the world's second-largest continent in botharea and population, after Asia.
Africa South of the Sahara - Southern Africa
It became the University of South Africa in 1916 and under its auspices several colleges in South Africa became autonomous universities.
www.calsky.de /lexikon/en/txt/cat/africa.php   (500 words)

  
 Foreign Affairs - Africa's Mess, Mugabe's Mayhem - Robert I. Rotberg
If sub-Saharan Africa is "in a mess," to quote Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's founding president, it is a mess made by its leaders.
To be sure, Africa has its geographical constraints, a cascade of tropical medical ills, and a complex colonial legacy.
Government orders that rural clinics and hospitals refuse treatment to MDC backers got less attention, as did having teachers suspected of supporting the MDC hauled from their classrooms and beaten.
www.foreignaffairs.org /20000901faessay75/robert-i-rotberg/africa-s-mess-mugabe-s-mayhem.html   (743 words)

  
 African entrepreneurs are key to New Economy - May 11, 2001
The speaker list for Africa and the New Economy, a one-day event organised by the London Business School, featured top businessmen from the continent, including the chief executives of Africa Online and Ashanti Goldfields.
The world's poorest continent is still way behind in the technology stakes with the lowest phone densities and number of computers in the world and the most expensive telecommunications charges.
Africa has a long walk to the freedoms and economic potential of this digital revolution.
money.cnn.com /2001/05/11/europe/africa/index.htm   (819 words)

  
 Digital Librarian: Africana: Resources on Africa
Africa Access - "Africa Access was founded in 1989 to help schools, public libraries, and parents improve the quality of their children's collections on Africa.
Africa Research Central: A Clearinghouse of African Primary Sources - History professor Kathryn Green and reference librarian Susan Tschabrun of California State University, San Bernardino, have compiled a collection of resources to archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources.
This is a project of the Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main to digitize photographs that "illustrate the many-facetted life of the colonial fathers: transport and commerce, churches and hospitals, mining and big game-hunting in the foreground of such impressive scenery, as well as survival in the desert." See project description in English.
www.digital-librarian.com /africana.html   (4371 words)

  
 DEVELOPMENT: Cameroon Adds Famine to Its List of Woes
Now Cameroon can add famine to its list of woes, especially in its southern provinces where nearly two-fifths of the country's 16.5 million people live.
According to him, the money borrowed was used to fund development projects such as the Yaounde-Douala highway in the 1980s, an international airport, schools, and several hospitals in Yaounde and Douala, the country's financial capital.
Cameroon is one of 20 countries in Africa and Asia cited as soon-to-be potential debt relief beneficiaries at the Group of Eight (G-8) Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland in June, and confirmed in September at the World Bank and IMF general assemblies.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/nota.asp?idnews=30568   (1063 words)

  
 USAID: ASHA Projects - Africa Region
One of the first institutions to receive an ASHA grant in Africa was Cuttington University College in Liberia, the oldest private, co-educational, four-year degree granting institution in sub-Saharan Africa.
Eight of the fifty-eight institutions with active grants administered by ASHA worldwide in 2003 are located in Africa and include a high school, four universities and three hospital centers.
Many graduates and recipients of services provided from ASHA assisted institutions in Africa are now key decision makers in their respective fields of endeavor.
www.usaid.gov /our_work/cross-cutting_programs/asha/regafrica.html   (371 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: Africa: Health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Africa Nutrition Chartbooks - Downloadable PDF files of surveys on the nutritional status of children in Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Mali and Senegal.
Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre - Promoting a better understanding of human sexuality through informed public dialogue and advocacy for positive changes in policies and programmes in Africa.
Healthlink for Africa Inc. - Organization hoping to promotes better health for the people of Africa by building and operating diagnostic facilities, networking with area health care providers and supplying tools for medical records.
dmoz.org /Regional/Africa/Health   (855 words)

  
 African Studies: Internet in Africa
A list of relevant links and a September 2000 report on the status of the Internet in Africa.
AFRICA CONNECTS will cover a wide range of topics in educational computing and educational use of the Internet, in the form of presentations and hands-on workshops.
Previous Africa TELECOMs have taken place in Johannesburg in 1998, Cairo in 1994, Harare, Zimbabwe in 1990, and Nairobi, Kenya in 1986.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Internet.html   (4557 words)

  
 University of Chicago Hospitals: Hepatitis A
Some 20 percent of patients may have a relapse of the disease and may be impaired for as long as 15 months.
Also, an estimated 15 percent of patients require hospitalization for hepatitis A. What are the symptoms of hepatitis A? The following are the most common symptoms of hepatitis A. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently.
What causes hepatitis A? This type of hepatitis is usually spread by fecal-oral contact or fecal-infected food and water, and may also be spread by blood-borne infection (which is rare).
www.uchospitals.edu /online-library/content=P00375   (974 words)

  
 South Africa - Health
The Brotherhood of Blessed Gerard is the relief organisation of the Knights of Malta in South Africa.
It was born out of a unification of the Medical Association of South Africa (MASA), founded in 1927, and the Progressive Doctors Group (formerly NAMDA), which was formed after severe dissatisfaction with MASA's response to the death in detention of Steve Biko in 1977." Has links to health sites selected by SAMA.
Has a directory of Africa Related Agencies and Activities in Washington, DC in the fields of Health, HIV/AIDS, Medicine.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsahealth.html   (2606 words)

  
 Mail & Guardian Online: Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
We list the who's who of women in the private sector, public sector and civil society
Botswana's high court is expected to rule on December 13 on a legal challenge by the Bushmen against their eviction.
Zambia's former president Frederick Chiluba arrived in South Africa on Friday for medical treatment after a court overturned a decision by President Levy Mwanawasa to block Chiluba's wife from travelling with him.
www.mg.co.za /articleList.aspx?area=southern_africa   (1167 words)

  
 Charities Working in Africa
A UK registered charity, which funds the education and care of underprivileged children from the poorest areas of Southern Africa.
Participation is open to anyone with the desire to help better the lives of orphaned children in Africa.
Biblionef South Africa is a unique NGO, which donates new storybooks in all eleven official South African languages to needy children’s organizations throughout the country.
www.africaguide.com /charity.htm   (1197 words)

  
 From Africa: Fr. Joe Healey
It has been exciting news for many of us here in East Africa (and elsewhere) that the international medical relief organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) was awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on October 15, 1999.
The award honors the work of all national and international MSF relief workers bringing medical assistance to around 80 countries, over 20 of which are in conflict.
MSF is the world's largest independent medical aid agency and is committed to two objectives: providing medical aid wherever it is needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or sex and raising awareness of the plight of the people that it helps.
parish-without-borders.net /global/africa.htm   (712 words)

  
 AFRICA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
South Africa -Foreign Relations-U.S. The appearance of hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Air Force of this Web site or the information, products, or services contained therein.
Reprint of the testimony given at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 25, 2001.
The effects of fetal alcohol syndrome on South Africa.
www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/africa02/afr3502.htm   (390 words)

  
 HealthLink for Africa International Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Some of our directors and volunteers have lived in Africa and have experienced the impact of poor health care conditions firsthand.
Hospitals are overflowing with the sick and dying
For more details on exactly how HealthLink for Africa intends to address some of these needs, see Our Work.
healthlinkafrica.org /auwhyafr.htm   (297 words)

  
 INASP Links & Resources/INASP HEALTH LINKS: General Health Resources/Gateways Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The resource is part of the University of Pennsylvania's ‘Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List’.
It is divided into health related diseases, organizations, and ministries and hospitals plus a current events/news section.
SA HealthInfo serves as a clearinghouse for health research in southern Africa.
www.inasp.info /health/links/gateafrica.html   (421 words)

  
 Please List Top Hospitals/Clinics in Your State - Student Doctor Network Forums
I would like to make a list for the better clinics and hospitals in the United States.
I’m looking more into the good less-known hospitals and clinics that people may not know about.
And one hospital may be top-notch in one specialty--the absolute best--while in another, it's just run-of-the-mill.
forums.studentdoctor.net /showthread.php?p=4350251   (277 words)

  
 Garmin: MapSource - City Select South Africa v5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Download map data for South Africa using your compatible Garmin® GPS with the MapSource City Select® South Africa v5 CD-ROM.
See the product compatibility table (right) for a list of products that Garmin recommends with this software.
General detail is provided for many other areas in South Africa.
www.garmin.com /cartography/mapSource/cityselectSAFRICA.jsp   (372 words)

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