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1. HEALTH: Global South leads the way towards universal healthcare
coverage
2. HEALTH: Dengue vaccine - still a long way off
3. SOMALIA: Mammoth task ahead for new president
4. HEALTH: The "unfinished business" of lowering child mortality
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HEALTH: Global South leads the way towards universal healthcare
coverage
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JOHANNESBURG, 11 September 2012 (IRIN) - An increasing number of
developing countries are introducing universal healthcare coverage -
and creating new models to do it - according to research published in
The Lancet. Lessons learned from countries like Ghana, India and Rwanda
are already shaping the way countries like South Africa are beginning
to pilot their own bids for universal coverage.
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HEALTH: Dengue vaccine - still a long way off
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LONDON, 11 September 2012 (IRIN) - Dengue fever is classed by the World
Health Organization (WHO) as a "major international public health
concern". WHO estimates that it infects 50-100 million people a year;
it is a leading cause of death among children in Asia and Latin
America, and it is now spreading outside its traditional heartlands to
Africa and the Middle East.
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SOMALIA: Mammoth task ahead for new president
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MOGADISHU, 12 September 2012 (IRIN) - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's election
as president of Somalia has been heralded as the start of a new era for
the troubled Horn of Africa state, which has been mired in conflict for
over two decades. Residents of the capital, Mogadishu, say the new
president has his work cut out for him.
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HEALTH: The "unfinished business" of lowering child mortality
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NAIROBI, 13 September 2012 (IRIN) - In 1990, an estimated 12 million
children around the world died under age five; by 2011, that figure had
dropped to 6.9 million. The message, from a new report by the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF), is that with greater commitment to child
survival from governments and their partners, these figures can go
lower still.
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