WHO declares TB an emergency in Africa

26 AUGUST 2005 | MAPUTO -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa comprising health ministers from 46 Member States has declared tuberculosis an emergency in the African region - a response to an epidemic that has more than quadrupled the annual number of new TB cases in most African countries since 1990 and is continuing to rise across the continent, killing more than half a million people every year.

The declaration was made in a resolution adopted today at the end of the Committee's fifty-fifth session in Maputo, Mozambique. The resolution urges Member States in the African Region to commit more human and financial resources to strengthen DOTS programmes and scale up collaborative interventions to fight the co-epidemic of TB and HIV. These and other measures recommended by the Committee encompass those laid out in a "blueprint" developed by the global Stop TB Partnership, which calls for US $2.2 billion in new funding for TB control in Africa during 2006-2007.

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Nakba

Palestine : 1947-1949

Mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages.

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US Public School System

Most modern addicts get their start on the school grounds, not from the pusher hanging over the school fences, but from the school itself. It is there where they learn all about drugs, what they feel like, which ones are dangerous, what they look like, and how available they are. When the child decides he must experiment, he knows which one to look for, what the signs of quality are, the going prices, and he has been reassured that they are available. He knows what downers and uppers are and how to use one to offset the other. The school makes sure that the child becomes well educated in drugs. It is in fact a mantra of the educators, "Drug use is going up, therefore, we must redouble our efforts to educate the child in drugs." This is quite kin to the statement, "The fire is getting bigger, therefore, we must throw more gasoline on the fire." And besides, the child is taught, everyone is doing it.

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Fascism Anyone?

Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.