Archive for the 'Health صحة' Category



I couldn’t finish watching this… Read about it here in English and over there in Arabic…
UPDATE: Read those two postings by Zeinobia…

Sarah Carr reports…
Eighteen Egyptian human rights groups have condemned the government’s decision to prevent the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) from participating in a United Nations meeting on HIV and AIDS.
The UN General Assembly High Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS will take place on June 10 to 11 in New York.
During the HLM government [...]

From the BBC…
Millions of people with HIV/Aids in poor countries still do not have access to potentially life-saving drugs.
A major report found just 31% of people in need of treatment in low and middle-income countries had access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2007.
The report, by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAids and Unicef, said an [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
The US army says the number of suicides among active duty troops in 2007 had reached the highest level on record, due partly to the stress caused by deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the full report…

Michaela Singer reports…
Human Rights Watch has condemned the decision taken by the Cairo Appeals court to uphold the sentencing of five men diagnosed with the HIV/AIDS virus to three-year prison terms, labeling it, “inhuman and unjust.”
In a press release issued by the organization, a torrent of criticism has also been directed at the ‘months-long campaign’ [...]

Read the report here…

Click on the photo below, taken by Sarah Carr, to read a BBC profile of Dr. Mona Mina, a leading member of Doctors Without Rights…

Sarah Carr reports…
During a heated emergency general assembly meeting on Friday, the Doctors’ Syndicate voted to hold protests outside hospitals for better pay on April 23.
The emergency general assembly was held to discuss what steps the syndicate should take as part of its campaign for a minimum wage for doctors.
At the last emergency general [...]

Sarah Carr reports…
Doctors staging a seven-day sit-in at the Doctors’ Syndicate suspended their protest for one day yesterday, during the Syndicate’s annual awards ceremony in celebration of Doctors’ Day.
According to organizers Doctors Without Rights — a lobby group which presses for better pay and conditions for doctors — pressure from security bodies persuaded them [...]

From the Daily News Egypt…
“I chose to study medicine because I wanted to help those in need, to make a difference — but it turned out that this was impossible.”
So says Mina Zekry who currently works in a human rights organization, but is a qualified doctor. He was driven out of the profession by [...]


From Reuters…
Six water brands found unsafe in Egypt govt study
CAIRO, Dec 26 - Egypt’s Consumer Protection Agency found six locally produced brands of bottled water, including Schweppes, unfit for human consumption, agency chairman Said el-Alfy said on Wednesday.
Alfy said at a news conference that a study financed by his one-year-old agency and conducted over two [...]






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