http://www.disabled-world.com/ Disability Community News and Information Wed, 09 May 2012 09:11:39 EST en-us http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/pink-red-ribbon.php Disability News Africa President George W. Bush and the First Lady of Zambia Dr. Christine Kaseba Announce Zambia as First Country to Implement Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative - Program Expands Critically Needed Breast and Cervical Cancer Interventions. Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:02:05 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/pink-red-ribbon.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/african-hunger.php Disability News Africa The world's worst food crisis is devastating large areas of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia - 10 million people face extreme hunger. Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:35:27 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/african-hunger.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/zimbabwe.php Disability News Africa UF researchers suggest cholera vaccination strategies for Zimbabwe. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:08:52 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/zimbabwe.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/freetown.php Disability News Africa At around 7:30 am on Wednesday 11 May, bailiffs and heavy police personnel forcefully and unlawfully entered a property at 15 Ecowas Street, Freetown, in order to violently evict over 300 disabled youths, mostly children and young women. Mon, 16 May 2011 16:52:40 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/freetown.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/nigeria.php Disability News Africa IBM consultants support Cross River State Government in reducing levels of maternal and infant mortality and breaking the cycle of poverty. Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:50:33 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/nigeria.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/hydrocephalus-uganda.php Disability News Africa Hydrocephalus in Ugandan children and other developing countries is seasonal, linked to farm animals and in part, caused by previous bacterial infection, according to an international team of researchers from Uganda and the United States, who believe that the best approach to this problem is prevention. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:35:36 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/hydrocephalus-uganda.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/jordan.php Disability News Africa Jordan is setting a global example in standardizing and demanding social, educational, vocational and rehabilitative care for the disabled. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:55:06 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/jordan.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/meningitis-vaccine.php Disability News Africa The West African nation of Burkina Faso today became the first country to begin a nationwide campaign to introduce a new meningitis vaccine that promises to rid the entire region of the primary cause of epidemic meningitis. Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:16:25 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/meningitis-vaccine.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/swaziland-hiv.php Disability News Africa The dual epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV is devastating Swaziland, cutting life expectancy there from 60 years to just 31, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today in a new report. Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:30:51 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/swaziland-hiv.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/pretoria.php Disability News Africa Minister for Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana has called on the private sector to employ people with disabilities, saying it makes business sense. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:53:05 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/pretoria.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/antimalarial-drugs.php Disability News Africa Substandard and Counterfeit Antimalarial Drugs in Ghana Discovered by Cooperative Program of USP, Ghana Food and Drugs Board. Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:30:52 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/antimalarial-drugs.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/malaria-control.php Disability News Africa Hebrew University-developed method for control of malaria applied in Africa. Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:23:44 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/malaria-control.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/tinnitus-seniors.php Disability News Africa Tinnitus is common among elderly Nigerians and associated with treatable health conditions like otitis media, rhinosinusitis, head injury and hypertension, according to new research published in the October 2010 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:16:31 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/tinnitus-seniors.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/disability-uganda.php Disability News Africa Women with disabilities in northern Uganda experience ongoing discrimination and sexual and gender-based violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:57:19 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/disability-uganda.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/inable-africa.php Disability News Africa inABLE envisions a day when blind and visually impaired students - all over Africa and beyond - have convenient access to life-changing computer-based educational tools. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:25:04 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/inable-africa.php http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/disability-rights-leader.php Disability News Africa Shuaib Chalklen of South Africa has been appointed the Special Rapporteur on Disability of the Commission for Social Development for the period 2009-2011. Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:33:30 EST http://www.disabled-world.com/news/africa/disability-rights-leader.php