Aid is key to halt disease: Sri Lanka
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SRI Lanka is banking on 2,000 Indian medical workers and planeloads of other foreign relief to help it stave off disease from thousands of decomposing bodies in the wake of Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami.
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Efforts to combat diseases such as malaria, Aids, tuberculosis and polio in the developing world are being thwarted by a critical shortage of four million health care workers, a new report has found.
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Sri Lanka has confirmed an epidemic of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya viral fever, a top health official said on Saturday. Doctors suspect it has infected 5,000 people in the island's far north.
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Governments and rebels in Sumatra, Sri Lanka and Somalia must keep the peace or risk a cut-off in tsunami aid, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as Australia and Germany pledged more than &#36;1.4 billion in disaster assistance.
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GENEVA - The United Nations warned Wednesday that respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out in areas affected by southern Asiaâs tsunami disaster âin the next few days.
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Improving access to medicine could save 10 million lives a year globally, a U.N. health envoy said on Thursday, recommending that drugmakers support research for neglected diseases and cut prices in poor countries.
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Test cricket's leading bowler Shane Warne said he wants to visit Sri Lanka to help in the tsunami relief effort.
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A fund set up to help combat three of the world's most widespread diseases will support another round of projects, organizers said Thursday, after the United States dropped its objections to financing provisions.
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With the prospect of people living in camps for extended periods, doctors in Sri Lanka worry about the threat of epidemics.
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Less than two weeks ago, Dr. Duane Gubler was walking the streets of Galle in Sri Lanka, heading a World Health Organization team assessing the country&#39;s response to dengue hemorrhagic fever.
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Respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out within days in areas affected by southern Asiaâs tsunami disaster, the UN warned tonight.
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Sri Lanka was set to launch a 3.5 billion dollar "action plan" to rebuild tsunami-smashed regions, the president's office said as the UN warned that the emergency phase was still not over.
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Survivors of last month's quake and tsunami in Indonesia still face the risk of deadly disease outbreaks such as cholera, but epidemics could be controlled, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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Rescuers battled to reach survivors in stranded villages, restore basic services and prevent the outbreak of deadly diseases across South Asia on Tuesday in
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Global AIDS funding needs to be quadrupled to fight the epidemic's spread in the developing world, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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A dispute develops in Sri Lanka over whether the government has given enough aid to tsunami-hit Tamil areas.
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COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka mounted a massive humanitarian operation after tsunamis devastated much of the island&#39;s coastline, killing almost 11,000 people of whom 70 were foreign tourists.