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“The AIDS pandemic continues to devastate sub-Saharan Africa. Two million people died from the disease in 2005 alone. Twelve million children have lost at least one parent. The statistics are staggering.”
Kristen Ashburn’s BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family is the story of these men, women and their children.
Watch it here, on Media Storm.com

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ARCA consulting, une société qui travaille dans la coopération internationale et s’occupe de la gestion de l’environnement et de communication, est en train de produire 4 documentaires qui traitent une problématique essentielle pour l’humanité : l’eau.
Maroc, Algerie, Tunisie, Egypte, Jordanie, Palestine, Liban et Syrie sont les pays où Arca Consulting est en phase de tournage […]

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Fast Food Hits Mediterranean;a DietSuccumbs

A fast-food restaurant in Kasteli, Crete, offers pizza and burgers in addition to more traditional, and more healthful, Greek salads.
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
KASTELI, Greece — Dr. Michalis Stagourakis has seen a transformation of his pediatric practice here over the past three years. The usual sniffles and […]

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One German and two French scientists won the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine , traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year.
The prestigious prize goes to Harald zur Hausen of Germany for his work into the cause of cervical cancer and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France for their discovery of the […]

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La journée mondiale sans ou avec tabac!? je me demande?!!
Bien que les compagnes de sensibilisation ont été bell et bien présentes, les Tunisiens hommes ou femmes n’ont pas eu le courage d’abandonner leurs cigarettes même pour une journée…
Le tabagisme tue chaque année plus de 4500 personnes en Tunisie dont 3050 atteints de la maladies […]

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Ils étaient là assis dans une grande salle pleine de journalistes, de photographes, de responsables avec de long discours sur la meilleure façon de soutenir les jeunes handicapés et assurer leurs intégrations dans la société…
Plus de 300 jeunes ont été ramené des 24 régions du pays pour participer à un forum de dialogue avec les […]

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Our computer keyboard may have five times more microbes than our toilet seat. British microbiologists have reached this conclusion after 33 keyboards were examined. Their research showed that 4 out of 33 keyboards were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office’s toilet seats.
The […]

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Yesterday I heard a report on the radio that stopped me completely in my tracks.
The report details the violence continuing in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite a recent ceasefire, and in contrast to plans for the UN to reduce their peace-keeping forces in the country. It focuses specifically on violence against […]

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This is not Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie “Junior”, but this is a true story about an American woman, Tracy Lagondino, who had women as a preference and used to be lesbian. One day, she decided to have a sex change operation in order to be “legally” a man! Tracy turned out to be Thomas Beatie a […]

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This montage gives hints of local stories, situations and symbolisms that I picked up during my time at a community radio station in a town called Ada, Ghana. The audio montage includes a range of voices, from University lecturer, midwife and the local leader of community radio, to old and young women from farming and […]

 

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