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Global health funding - does not reflect the health needs
About this event: Universal Forum of Cultures
Related to country: Zambia
About this category: Health

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Global health funding at the World Health Organisation (WHO) is skewed
towards infectious diseases and does not reflect the actual health
needs of recipient countries, say researchers in The Lancet this month (1
November).

The United Kingdom-based team compared the allocations for infectious
diseases, chronic non-communicable diseases and injury with their burden
- deaths and number of productive years of life lost due to a disease
- in each budget cycle of the WHO from 1994-95 to 2008-09.

They looked at whether there was a difference between the regular WHO
budget, to which all member states contribute and which is decided by
democratic consensus, and extra-budgetary funds, which are voluntary and
most often come from developed countries.

They found consistent evidence that funding is skewed towards
infectious diseases. In 2006-07, for example, infectious diseases,
non-communicable diseases and injury received 87, 12 and one per cent of funds
respectively. This skew was even more extreme in the extra-budgetary funds.

The pattern was the same in both Africa and the Western Pacific,
despite differing patterns of disease burden - Africa has a high infectious
disease burden and relatively low non-communicable diseases, while the
opposite is true in the Western Pacific.

Lead author David Stuckler, research fellow in the department of
sociology at the University of Oxford, told SciDev.Net that it was possible
the gap was even wider in other global health-related organisations such
as the World Bank and the Gates Foundation.

He added that many institutions follow the WHO's lead in global health.
"WHO has the opportunity to step out as a bold leader for setting
global health priorities. Yet it, in part, is transferring this
decision-making role away from its member states to private donors. Our study
echoes the point that we need democracy in global public health."

He said that infectious diseases are prioritised for a variety of
reasons, which include the North's perception of a threat from Southern
infectious diseases; perceived economic cost; and a holdover from the WHO's
inception when infectious diseases were prevalent.

"Our analysis suggests that donors are giving money out of geopolitical
or economic interests, rather than based on the actual health needs of
recipients," he said. Martin McKee, co-author of the study, from the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, added that "the 2008
Bamako ministerial forum offers a rare opportunity to reassess research
priorities".

Addressing the forum's delegates, Stuckler said: "Consider whether the
way money is being allocated is in the best interests of those
receiving the funds. Try to establish systems for oversight and for empowering
health ministries to set their own priorities through democracy, [and]
not only through private philanthropy."

November 21, 2008 | 1:15 AM Comments  0 comments

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FREE HEALING RECIPE, SPECIALITY SOUP
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FREE HEALING RECIPE
THE FOOD DOCTOR'S
SPECIALITY SOUP

This delicious soup is packed with ingredients shown in clinical studies to relieve joint pain, prevent cancer and heart disease, reduce blood sugar and prevent memory loss.

Ingredients:
1 onion ==================
2 carrots=================1 ½ tsp. ground turmeric
2 celery sticks=============1 Tbsp. grated gingerroot
3 medium-sized potatoes ====1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
4 medium-sized tomatoes====½ tsp. curry powder
14-oz. can of chickpeas=====4 strands of saffron
5 cups vegetable stock======1 bay leaf
1 tsp. ground cinnamon======1 Tbsp. fresh-squeezed lemon juice.


Preparation:

1. Dice celery, onion and potatoes. Peel and dice carrots. Dice tomatoes, remove seeds.
2. Pour 1½ cups of the veggie stock into large saucepan. Add onions and simmer for a few
minutes.
3. While onions are simmering, deal with the spices. Mix in the cinnamon, curry, turmeric,
cayenne, and ginger and add 2 Tbsp. of the vegetable stock. Mix well.
4. Add this mix to the onions and stock already being heated.
5. Add the rest of your veggie stock to the onion and stock mix and let soup return to boil. Stir,
then cover and heat.
6. After 5 minutes, add the potatoes, tomatoes, celery, and carrots and allow it to simmer in the
covered saucepan for 20 – 30 minutes or until carrots and celery are tender.
7. Pour in the chickpeas, black pepper, saffron, and fresh-squeezed lemon juice and heat
thoroughly
before serving.
8. Enjoy!

September 24, 2008 | 10:29 AM Comments  0 comments

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Five Fish are Healthy to Eat, Four Are Deadly
About this category: Health

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Have You Taken the Bait For
the Healthy Fish Myth?


Have you fallen hook, line and sinker for fish?

Fresh, frozen and canned — collectively, we eat 4 billion pounds of fish each year.

Fried, grilled, blackened, in sushi, in fancy restaurants or in fast food joints. And of course, our kids love their homemade tuna sandwiches and tuna casserole.

In addition to fish, seafood consumption in general continues to rise. We love it all — shrimp, lobster, scallops, clams, oysters, and crab. Perhaps that's because of the messages we get about eating fish and seafood.

What have you heard or read about eating fish?

You read in the popular press about the many virtues of eating fish. The director of the government's NOAA Fisheries Service, Bill Hogarth, says: "Seafood is a safe and healthy food choice for all Americans..."

And the American Heart Association suggests that you eat fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids two times a week to keep your heart healthy.

So what's the problem?


Something's Fishy with Fish...

The fish (and some of the seafood) you're eating may contain high levels of a number of less-than-healthy compounds.

Nasty stuff like mercury (one of the most poisonous metals in existence), PCBs, dioxins, pesticides and herbicides.

Be healthy.


September 15, 2008 | 3:22 AM Comments  0 comments

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Chicken Wings
Related to country: Zambia
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AVOID Eating Chicken WINGS frequently - Especially Ladies


Avoid eating chicken wings frequently - ladies especially a true story....!

A friend of mine recently had a growth in her womb and she underwent an operation to remove the cyst. The cyst removed was filled with a dark- colored blood. She thought that she would be recovered after the surgery but she was terribly wrong.

A relapse occurred just a few months later. Distressed, she rushed down to her gynecologist for a consultation.

During her consultation, her doctor asked her a question that puzzled her. He ask if she was a frequent consumer of chicken wings and she replied yes wondering as to how, he knew of her eating habits.

You see, the truth is in this modern day and age; chickens are injected with steroids to accelerate their growth so that the needs of this society can be met. This need is none other than the need for food.

Chickens that are injected with steroids are usually given the shot at the neck or the wings. Therefore, it is in these places that the highest concentration of steroids exists. These steroids have terrifying effects on the body as it accelerates growth. It has an even more dangerous effect in the presence of female hormones, this leads to women being more prone to the growth of a cyst in the womb. Therefore, I advise the people out there to watch their diets and to lower their frequency of consuming chicken wings!


Do Good, Think Good!

September 9, 2008 | 10:36 AM Comments  0 comments

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Face Of Zambia
Related to country: Zambia
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Thats my face, a twenty year old young African Beauty. thats what people see. But when you look deep enough you see, a strong will powered young woman, living in a country where, women only started to take a leading role in society, where the poverty rate among women and young girls is one of the highest world wide and where the HIV prevelance is escalleting each day. each day is a hardship for education, employment, prevention from disease 'HIV'. and because i can survive and do survive. i believe other young people in africa can survive, speak out and show their face for the Arican struggle like i do. so it is an honor for me as an african female to take a leading role in fightin HIV and Aids through the work that i do with Youth Vision Zambia.

April 7, 2008 | 4:51 PM Comments  0 comments

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THE REPERCUSSIONS OF IGNORANCE ON HIV/AIDS
Related to country: Zambia
About this category: Health



By Alfred Lola Sachifunga,Chipata,Zambia.
Taken critically,''ignorance''would land you to two ends,both being negative. I expect the reader to get the whole picture of what ignorance really is(in two phases),what it has caused(repercussions) and what can be done to utterly eradicate it. This article is more of a concern on the rate at which HIV/AIDS is being spread. Free your mind from anything else and focus on this Global crisis of HIV/AIDS in this article.
From my personal perspective,ignorance has two very serious views. One of which is common everywhere. This is one when someone has no idea of something at all,especially on the issue of HIV/AIDS. Many people particularly in our developing Country,Zambia,remain uninformed about the nature of HIV/AIDS and have little access to available preventive measures. Especially those that are far away from Towns,they are most vulnerable. That is to say,yes,they are aware that there is HIV/AIDS,however there is no one to educate them more on the issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. In a nutshell,this illustration can be phrased as follows;ignorance is having little or no knowledge about HIV/AIDS at all.
Nevertheless,others are accessible to the information on HIV/AIDS. That is to say,they have sufficient knowledge on HIV/AIDS. From the word ''IGNORE'' itself,people tend to ignore the facts of the dangers thereof. It's estimated that of all the people living with HIV/AIDS,75% of them are quite educated but they don't live according to their standard of knowledge. Even though they claim to understand things in an educated way,AIDS is non selective. So,what am trying to put across is the fact that ignorance can also be defined as having knowledge on HIV/AIDS but ignoring the facts of dangers thereof. Knowing something and yet not considering its seriousness.
Unlike where you don't know anything the latter definition is what am concerned about. It's just as good as doing things deliberately. So much sensitization has been done by some concerned organisations
e.g,the Family Health Trust,Civil Society for Poverty Reduction(CSPR),Youth development Foundation(YDF) to mention but a few,but the situation seems as though nothing is been done to the matter. Year after year,there some organisations that come up with helpful projects fight against HIV/AIDS. This implies that almost everyone has information pertaining to HIV/AIDS despite their irresponsible behaviors.
I feel this situation of deliberation has brought Zambia to a fall. The actual ignoring of the dangers of HIV/AIDS has caused a blame to the government of Zambia. A lot of people have been saying that the government of Zambia is doing absolutely nothing on the fight against HIV/AIDS. Personally,i strongly disapprove this notion. Because everywhere,people have been doing things without realizing the repercussions thereof.

September 24, 2007 | 7:00 AM Comments  0 comments

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Keep Zambia Clean Campaign
About this event: Universal Forum of Cultures
Related to country: Zambia
About this category: Health


The Government of the Republic of Zambia embarked on a sensitization campaign of keep zambia clean. The Local Government and Housing Minister, Sylvia Masebo, told a Press briefing in Lusaka on 21st june,2007, that she was happy that the Government had allocated K200 million in this year's Budget for the program.
Zambia is one of the poorest countries and its total population is half constituted by the young people. These young people have been heavily affected by HIV pandemic as they are faced with high unemployment levels. There activities are mginalized with substance abuse and beer drinking.
In this regard, government as i feel should look at means of how to address the real issue of unemployment.
Therefore, i rate the keep Zambia clean campaign a waste of resources as Zambia has more important issues to address.
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September 19, 2007 | 6:47 AM Comments  0 comments

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my bithday.
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Thank very much for wishing a happy bithday, its great to have a family like this that remembers me on such important days. I did not do much on my birthday, i had alot of work to do. But later on i was taken for a movie and had dinner with my friends.
Thanks once more and keep up the spirit.

November 7, 2006 | 9:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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TOBACCO SHOULD BE BANNED OR RECLASSFIED AS AN ILLEGAL DRUG
Related to country: United Kingdom
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By HOPE CHITAMBO

Smoking is a health hazard for smokers, non-smokers, children and unborn babies and should be banned or reclassified as an illegal drug. Surprisingly, smokers claim that it helps them to release stress and relax, despite knowing that they would be in worse stressed illnesses caused by tobacco. The solution would be to declare tobacco as illegal, starting from the grower.

Tobacco smoking is the major cause of respiratory diseases such as lung cancer, bronchitis as well as heart disease which are all expensive to treat. The amounts of money spent on the treatment of these diseases exceed by far, the amounts that government receives from taxing tobacco. Non-smoking tax payers, have been subjected to an unfair situation were they are forced to pay for the health of smokers.

The nicotine contained in cigarettes is a dangerous substance that is also used in liquid form as an insecticide. Furthermore, non-smokers have fallen victims of cancer, bronchitis and other smoke related diseases, as a result of passive smoking. It is difficult for anyone to avoid inhaling second hand smoke as it always finds its way in different directions. This is the case even in places where smoking areas are separated from non-smoking ones. The fact is, smoke passes through air and can therefore easily pass through the thinnest gap. For this reason, tobacco should be reclassified as an illegal substance because of the danger it causes to everyone.



Even though the government has taken noteworthy steps towards controlling tobacco, such as beefing up warnings on cigarette packets, banning advertising by tobacco companies and establishing network of smoking termination clinics, further actions need to be taken to create an environment where not smoking becomes a social standard.

The nicotine which is found in tobacco is as highly addictive as substances such as heroin and cocaine, which are classified as illegal. Tobacco should also fall in the category of illegal drugs because it is a danger to people’s health.

Finally, a lot of money is being spent on treatment of tobacco related illness and as well as on campaigns to sensitise people on the dangers of tobacco. As a result of all these efforts falling on deaf ears, the innocent non-smokers who include children and unborn babies end up suffering too.

Therefore, lives of both smokers and non-smokers can only be protected if government could ban tobacco growing as is the case with marijuana, heroine and cocaine, because that is the starting point to smoking.

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January 15, 2006 | 7:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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Chief Urges Govt to connect electricity
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Chief Hamaundu’s representative in Choma District of southern Zambia has asked government to consider connecting electricity to the chief’s Palace.

Daniel Hangwemu said that chief Hamaundu’s area has a lot of viable institutions that need electricity. He said that there is clinic, a basic school, a local court and many shops that are a great help to the local people.

He said that connecting his area to electricity can help the people very much. (Christopher Chizanda)

August 24, 2005 | 5:26 AM Comments  0 comments

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The HIV Situation in My Country
Related to country: Zambia
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Until very recently, the problem of HIV in my country seemed somewhat distant to me and my inner circle, this has changed substantially after I visited one of the HIV treatment centers here in the city of Lusaka, from what i have seen, the problem is growing pretty fast, and we might be needing more help than we care to admitt.

The pattern of infection has trewmendously shifted. This is so because HIV has previously been synonymous with promiscuity, something that no longer holds true.

The situation is a desperate one and we need more people to try and fight this.

There are quite a number of drawbacks that will certainly affect this struggle in a negative way.

1. Financial Resources
2. Will power to keep the fight alive
3. The inability for the youth to comprehend the magnitude of the problem at hand


Finnaly I would like to suggest that, if the above are to be dealt with, then we might have some sorta direction in this so-desperate fight.

TREAMENT CENTERS

I have had the previlage of working in an HIV treatment center and have also notices some flaws in these programmes. My aim is not to criticise these efforts but to compliment them by adding my voice to the struggle.

Things such as nutrition and patient follow-ups are still an issue in these treatment centers, even though humangous amounts of money are being invested for this purpose.

I will go on discusing this topic.

If you want more information about my views on this matter kindly e-mail me at samtrop2001@yahoo.com


July 14, 2004 | 2:49 PM Comments  0 comments

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MIRACLE BABY(FOUR LEGS)-ZAMBIA
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PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS BABY AND THE PARENTS!! YOU CAN GET MORE INFORMATION BY SENDING AN E-MAIL TO:amos.chipasha@kcm.co.zm)

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!
AMOS.

July 2, 2003 | 4:03 PM Comments  0 comments

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Relief for Manchester
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Considering we have to beat Arsenal this year if we are to remain respectable in the premiership, it is kind of bad for Manchester to have lost two matches in a row. However, our win against Birmingham today was a great relief. Manchester fans world-wide, persevere.

Shalala
Zambia

December 28, 2002 | 12:11 PM Comments  0 comments

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World AIDS Day
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As we commemorate World AIDS Day, think about what you are contributing to this fight. Remember what Mahatma Gandhi said: "Be the change you want to see in the world". Don't take it that others will do the job. Do it.

We shall be producing a CD ROM in Zambia on the AIDS scourge in our Youth Fighting AIDS Digitally project. This is a mammoth undertaking and we would be willing to get support from anyone who has done this kind of job.

Have a good World AIDS Day.

Shalala

December 1, 2002 | 1:10 PM Comments  1 comments

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Sunday Sports
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Been having my usual round of Pool and Snooker today....my favourite sports. The footbal team I support is Manchester United but it has been doing badly of late. Thanks to yesterday's win. In tennis I love the William sisters and I do identify with Tiger Woods in Golf. All in all I follow most sports on the world scale save for cricket and baseball which I know almost nothing about.

September 22, 2002 | 12:20 PM Comments  0 comments

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