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Sleeping sickness: tsetse flies counterattack in urban areas

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Health - Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Togo, Ghana, Archipelago of the Canaries, Nigeria, Central Africa, Democratic republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea

June 2009

Sleeping sickness is a parasitic infection which affects humans and animals alike in Africa. True to its name, it disturbs the sleep cycle: the patient sleeps during the day and stays awake at night. Sensory disturbance, motor coordination anomalies and mental confusion develop. The whole ...

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Access to abortion in Africa and Latin America : a question of public health and social inequality

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Health - Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Cape Verde, Tunisia, South Africa, Egypt, Congo, Malawi, Swaziland, Algeria, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua

May 2008

Abortion is a serious public health problem in many countries of the South and it reveals many social injustices. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in Latin America 3.7 million women resort to unsafe abortions each year. In Africa, an estimated 4.2 million women put their lives ...

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