World News Brief 4U

$87 bn needed to fight AIDS, TB, malaria: report
Brussels (AFP) April 08, 2013 -
The fight against HIV AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria will cost some $87 billion (67 billion euros) between 2014-16 if the three scourges are to be kept in check, a report showed Monday. The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said it estimated $87 billion was needed to "provide essential services for effective treatment ... to vulnerable populations." The battle against A ... more

Obama takes first step to selling arms to Somalia
Washington (AFP) April 8, 2013 -
President Barack Obama took the first step Monday toward providing US military assistance to Somali forces battling Islamist militants, after the easing of a UN arms embargo last month. Obama signed a determination stating that having the legal capacity to offer defense equipment to Somalia was in the national interest of the United States and could promote peace and stability in East Africa ... more

Vietnam reports first bird flu death in 14 months
Hanoi (AFP) April 9, 2013 -
A four-year-old child has become Vietnam's first victim of the H5N1 bird flu virus in more than a year, a health worker said on Tuesday, amid growing regional concerns about the virulent disease. The death comes as neighbouring China scrambles to contain a new H7N9 strain that had not previously been transmitted from birds to humans but has now killed seven people since February. "A test ... more

Dead fish cause for concern in China river
Shanghai, China (UPI) Apr 8, 2013 -
Dead fish found on the shorelines of a Shanghai river have sparked safety fears. Small carp-type dead fish were first sighted last week in a river in Shanghai's Songjiang district, China Daily reported Monday, and larger dead carp over the weekend, hundreds of fish in all. So far about 551 pounds of fish have been retrieved. The incident comes less than a month after thousands ... more

Cambodia fights surge in bird flu deaths
Phnom Penh (AFP) April 9, 2013 -
As China scrambles to contain a deadly new strain of bird flu, Cambodia is battling a spike in the better known H5N1 strain that is baffling experts a decade after a major outbreak began in Asia. Bird flu has killed eight people so far this year in Cambodia, including six children, while more than 13,000 chickens have been culled or died from the highly contagious illness. The impoverish ... more

South Africa rolls out new single dose AIDS drug
Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa (AFP) April 08, 2013 -
South Africa's health minister on Monday launched a new single dose anti-AIDs drug which will simplify the world's biggest HIV treatment regime to just one life-saving pill a day. The three-in-one combination anti-retroviral (ARV) was secured at a record-low price and will cost the state 89 rand a month ($10, eight euros) per patient. "Before 2010, we were buying the most expensive ARVs ... more

No proof China's H7N9 spreading between humans: WHO
Beijing (AFP) April 8, 2013 -
The World Health Organisation said Monday there is no evidence China's new H7N9 strain of bird flu is spreading between humans, as the death toll rose to seven and airline and tourism shares slumped. China said just over a week ago that H7N9 avian influenza had been found in humans for the first time. Shanghai announced a new fatality on Monday, a man aged 64 who died the previous day, while ... more

Smog-eating pavement on greenest street in America
Chicago (AFP) April 6, 2013 -
The big rigs rattling past smokestacks sure don't make this Chicago roadway look like the greenest street in America. But their tires roll over smog-eating pavement, the streetlights run on solar and wind power, the sidewalks were made with recycled concrete, and shrub-filled "bioswales" keep storm water out of overtaxed sewers. "Sustainability is critical for us," Karen Weigert, chief ... more

China boosts bird flu response as cases rise
Shanghai (AFP) April 7, 2013 -
China confirmed three more cases of bird flu on Sunday, as authorities sought to curb a deadly outbreak by banning live poultry sales and disinfecting schools. The new cases of the H7N9 strain of avian influenza brought the number recorded in China's developed eastern region to 21 since it was announced a week ago that the virus had been found in humans for the first time. Six people hav ... more

Argentina floods caused $5 billion in damage
Buenos Aires (AFP) April 7, 2013 -
Damage from last week's record rains and flooding in Argentina exceeded five billion dollars, according to officials, who said on Sunday that more than 350,000 people suffered losses in property. "More than 350,000 of our neighbors were affected directly or indirectly by the storm, which caused 2.6 billion pesos (five billion dollars) in damage," according to a press release by the Telam gov ... more

Thousands in Darfur seek protection after fighting
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP) April 07, 2013 -
Thousands of civilians in Sudan's troubled Darfur region have sought protection around peacekeeping bases after rebel attacks and "possible" air strikes, the mission said on Sunday. The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) confirmed rebels of the Sudan Liberation Army's Minni Minnawi faction "attacked and seized" the towns of Muhagiriya and Labado. On Saturday the rebe ... more

China steps up response to bird flu cases
Shanghai (AFP) April 6, 2013 -
Cities in eastern China where an H7N9 bird flu outbreak has killed six people moved Saturday to prevent the virus from spreading by banning live poultry trade and culling fowl. Nanjing city shut markets selling live poultry to its more than eight million residents, while Hangzhou culled birds after discovering infected quail, the official Xinhua news agency said. Two more people were con ... more

Congolese pygmy seeks to enlighten his kin
Kinshasa, 06 Avr 2013 -
Kapupu Diwa Mutimamwa, a pygmy from the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been to university and become a champion for his people, trying to open their way to education, health care and a place in politics. Lively and talkative, the 55-year-old man of medium height calls himself "indigenous" to his country, but worries whether he is being politically correct. No serious studies have been und ... more

Italy marks fourth anniversary of L'Aquila quake
Rome (AFP) April 06, 2013 -
Italy on Saturday commemorated the fourth anniversary of a devastating earthquake in and around the city of L'Aquila which killed 309 people and forced tens of thousands to abandon their homes. Families of the victims led a torch-lit procession with thousands of people in the night between Friday and Saturday, when the tremor struck the mediaeval university town in the middle of the Apennine ... more

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