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Improving sanitation and building more toilets could save millions of lives around the world and would remove an important source of inequality, the UN said Friday ahead of World Toilet Day. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-poor-sanitation-mn-people-year.html Health Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:36:18 EST news272288169 (AP)—A Dutch academic hospital is taking the lead in a major international investigation into the illegal trafficking in human organs for transplants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dutch-hospital-trafficking-probe.html Other Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:50:34 EST news272181020 The UN's refugee agency warned Friday that an outbreak of hepatitis E among refugees in South Sudan was worsening and that it did not have the needed funds to contain it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hepatitis-sudan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:22:56 EST news271668164 The United Nations appealed Wednesday for $2 million (1.6 million euros) to fight an epidemic of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed 14 people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-2mn-deadly-ebola-outbreak-dr.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:36:44 EST news266081794 The United Nations food agency on Tuesday warned that an outbreak of African swine fever in Ukraine could pose a risk for animal health in the region as a whole despite swift moves to limit its spread. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-swine-fever-outbreak-ukraine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:10:02 EST news264765349 (Medical Xpress) -- The University of Queensland researchers are seeking to identify more effective ways of treating drug addiction to tackle the perceived prevalence of injecting drug use worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-queensland-treatment-drug-addiction.html Addiction Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:03:06 EST news264744180 Punitive laws and human rights abuses are costing lives, wasting money and stifling the global AIDS response, according to a report by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, an independent body of global leaders and experts. The Commission report, "HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights and Health," finds evidence that governments in every region of the world have wasted the potential of legal systems in the fight against HIV. The report also concludes that laws based on evidence and human rights strengthen the global AIDS response - these laws exist and must be brought to scale urgently. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-high-level-commission-epidemic-bad-laws.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:19:36 EST news261047969 Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Monday the government would vaccinate 700,000 babies this year to protect them from a virus that causes diarrhoea, a killer disease ravaging poor communities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-philippines-vaccinate-babies.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:45:39 EST news260433928 HIV infections continued to rise in Europe in 2010, but thanks to treatment the number of cases of full-blown AIDS has dramatically declined in recent years, according to a report published Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-hiv-europe-aids-cases-declining.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:11:45 EST news241863094 At least 10 people in northwestern China have contracted a highly infectious strain of polio, in the first outbreak of the disease in the country for 12 years, a United Nations group said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-infected-polio-china-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:24:41 EST news235905849 In advance of a United Nations conference today on the global challenges of treating cancer and other diseases, the UBC Graduate School of Journalism has launched an ambitious multimedia site, The Pain Project, which documents one of the greatest challenges to treating chronic illnesses: severely constrained access to morphine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-ubc-journalism-documents-global-pain.html Other Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:48:09 EST news235644474 Up to 3.6 million lives could be saved every year if midwifery services were upgraded in 58 developing countries by 2015, according to a major new report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with the University of Southampton and 28 other organisations worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-adequate-midwifery-million.html Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:12:09 EST news227952709 Young adults from Montreal, Halifax and New York City have very specific ideas about what it takes to build a more sustainable world. And they are willing to make the necessary changes to their lifestyles to make such a world a reality. This is the conclusion drawn from a survey sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which surveyed 400 young adults between the ages of 18 and 35. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-survey-young-adults-ready-behavior.html Health Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:24:50 EST news226146260 Debate about the public health response to Haiti's cholera epidemic continues as the crisis enters its ninth month, with some experts arguing that a vaccination campaign in Haiti would be neither feasible nor cost-effective, and advocating putting forth other measures. In a viewpoint article published on May 31st in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, a coalition of medical and public health researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, led by Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners In Health and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, argue that a universal vaccination campaign is essential to ending the crisis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-cholera-haiti-world.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:18:06 EST news226120662