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A quiet weekend has afforded me time for the latest interesting news article round-up.

"justice" delayed?
African Union Panel on Darfur Will Meet ICC: Mbeki

Interesting, in terms of how little has been reported on the impact an actual pandemic of flu would have on the developing world. [As if the current pandemic weren't evidence enough.]
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Not enough drugs to handle a pandemic

A new report tells us that, strangely, giving people mosquito (bed)nets is effective at preventing malaria while giving whole populations behavior change education is not very effective at preventing HIV. I wonder how effective malaria prevention would be if we gave 30% of prevention funding to educate people how to avoid mosquito bites?
World Bank HIV/AIDS Programs Less Effective Than Its Other Health Programs, Report Finds

Ahh, and in the US we are still working on offering healthcare to everyone... Flash-forward to the UK:
Should the NHS offer us incentives to improve our health?

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[info]roundballnz wrote:
May. 3rd, 2009 08:03 am (UTC)
Yeah what's crazy abt this whole flu thing well apart from the media beat-up ... is than in comparison to other health issues out there its small fry.

take for example a simple thing like measles more children will dies from measles this year than will die from this flu ... not saying we shouldn't be concerned though ...
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