Month: November 2011

Colombia highlights progress in helping the victims of mines antipersonnel

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Phnom Penh, 29 nov (EFE).-Colombia stressed today “significant progress” in the integral assistance to the victims of anti-personnel mines on its territory, during his speech at the meeting on the Ottawa Convention being held in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.

“The Colombian State has been reported significant progress in the implementation of the measures on comprehensive assistance to victims referred to in the Plan of action of Cartagena.” “However, still face great challenges”, said Ana María Díaz Uribe, Coordinator of the presidential programme for the Integral action against anti-personnel mines (Paicma).

A total of 438 Colombians were victims of anti-personnel mines between January and October of this year.

“Although this (the fact) shows a decrease of 23 per cent of victims compared with the same period of the 2010, Colombia still faces a problem of major proportions”, said Diaz during his speech.

The Colombian presented himself as an “unprecedented” Act victims and restitution of lands sanctioned by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon this year, which opens another via official attention to integral of the affected.

In this sense, Díaz stated that 100 percent of the affected civilians have been contacted and oriented in 2011,

Is an important fact because in Colombia the victim or the family of the dead by a mine has six months to inform the authorities and processing compensation or reparation, as otherwise he loses his rights.

Colombia, one of the countries with more cases of accidents of landmines, hosted the second Conference of review of the Ottawa Convention, in 2009, which was closed down in order to provide greater assistance to the victims.

The meeting in Phnom Penh, which began yesterday with the assistance of more than one hundred countries responsible for reviewing the progress made with the Plan of action of Cartagena, will close Friday.

The Ottawa Convention, which regulates the use, Stockpiling, production, sale and destruction of anti-personnel mines, came into force in 1999, with the aim that the world was free of these artifacts in 2009.

It has been ratified by 158 countries, of which 153 have confirmed that they already do not have devices stored.

Not signatory Governments include China, India, Russia, United States, Israel, Morocco, Cuba or Singapore. EFE

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Germany destroys vaccines of influenza (a) value of EUR 130 million

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Berlin, 29 nov (EFE).-Germany opened today to destroy a total of 16 million flu vaccines H1N1 of the British Pharmaceutical GlaxoSmith Kline amounting to 130 million euros by the maturity of their date of expiry.

Said German health authorities fear of a pandemic in 2009, after the first deaths in Mexico by an outbreak of flu in humans, it led to the 16 Länder to purchase 34 million doses of the vaccine Pandemrix amounting to 283 million euros.

According to the Robert Koch Institute of Virology, the vaccination rate stood between 4% and 14%, depending on the Bundesland, so total acquired vaccines overran 28.7 million doses.

Until this Wednesday afternoon, a total of 196 pallets with expired vaccinations will be eliminated at a cost of 14,000 euros to 1,000 degrees of temperature in the plant incinerator of Rothensee in Magdeburg, in the East of the country.

For them States Federated was a spending of 239 million of euros, because them safe medical public only assumed the cost of the dose used.

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Also the Länder must now assume the destruction of expired vaccines distributed between their respective health centres and optional.

According to data from the World Health Organization (who), at least 18,400 people died as a result of the flu H1N1 – spread to 214 countries and island Territories-, a much lower figure for the between 250,000 and 500,000 deaths a year by influenza seasonal.

In Germany, the Robert Koch Institute reported a total of 226,000 cases of infection by influenza AH1N1, of which 252 patients died between May 2009 and April 2010.

75% Of the fatalities were minors 60; 29 of them children.

In August 2010, who announced the end of the outbreak, with 350 million people vaccinated worldwide fourteen months after decreeing a State of high alert for influenza a.

A Scientific Committee was subsequently commissioned to evaluate the performance of the who, after accusations that the Organization had ceased to influence by the pharmaceutical industry when making decisions.

Finally, the Committee found there was no “direct or indirect evidence” of the influence of commercial interests. EFE

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Southern Africa, the most affected by cuts in funds against AIDS

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Johannesburg (Reuters)-them countries of el South of Africa, that face it worse of the pandemic of HIV / AIDS, will be probably them more affected in them next three years, since one of them greater donor of el world will reduce them funds that brings to combat the disease, said activists.

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The Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced last week the cut in funding for countries fighting against these diseases, after failing in the collection of at least $ 13 billion needed to finance their programmes.

The Fund said earlier this month which was reducing new grants for funding for the Nations to combat these ailments.

The global fund public-private partnership based in Geneva is the maximum funder of the fight against HIV and provides more than 70 percent of the funds for developing nations to obtain medications antiretrovirals (ARVS), who saves lives.

It is expected that the countries of southern Africa that rely heavily on the Global Fund – including Swaziland, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique – registered increases in deaths and infections as a result of the cuts in funding. The reservations of ARV also diminish.

“It is a disaster for Zimbabwe as a country,” said Faizel Tezera, head of doctors without borders in that country.

“More than 86,000 persons may remain untreated and some 5,000 children will be affected,” said Tezera to journalists.

Worldwide, some 33 million people living with HIV. Nearly two-thirds of that total inhabit Africa sub-Saharan.

The fight against AIDS activists indicate that the situation in Swaziland, where about 26 percent of the population of 1.2 million people living with HIV, was serious before the fall in reserves of ARV.

Representatives of doctors without borders and the South African Group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) warn of an impending disaster.

“The quality of treatment will be strongly committed”, she said Safari Mbewe, spokesman for the network of people living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Malawi, where about 10 percent of the population or 960.000 people living with the disease that attacks the immune system, had hopes for new scholarships for the next year to deal with the estimated 70,000 new infections.

“It is catastrophic for our Nations, particularly for women and children,” said TAC spokesman Nokhwezi Haboyi.

Some South African State facilities are struggling with shortages of drugs ARVS, even though 80 percent of the funds to combat HIV/AIDS coming from the Government.

Patients in hospice funded by donors recently were referred to of health public facilities because many shut down for the loss of funding.

(Mmathabo Tladi report); (Edited by Ana Laura Mitidieri in Spanish)

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The 2011 is in the top warmer age ten in modern history

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(www.neomundo.com.ar) according to a report published by the World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations, global temperatures measured during the year 2011 are currently the tenth record in the Top Ten highest annual.

And also the records of this year are higher than any previous year having log with the event weather “La Niña”, which has an influence towards the cooling.

Another statistic of labour is that statistical history 13 hottest years have occurred in 15 years to come since 1997.

As final registration, extension in square kilometres of ice in the Arctic sea – 2011 – was the second lowest in the register and its volume was also the youngest.

These points are some of the highlights of the annual work coordinated by the WMO on the State of the global climate.

This study was revealed to the public today during a meeting of the International Conference on climate that takes place in Durban, South Africa.

“Our role is to provide scientific expertise to inform those who must make decisions,” said the Secretary General of the WMO Michel Jarraud.

And added: “our science is sound and demonstrates unequivocally that the plant is warming and that this warming is due to human activities”.

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“The concentrations of GHGs in the atmosphere have reached new highs.” And very quickly levels the science indicates are approaching shall ensure an average increase of the temperature between 2 and 2.4 degrees Celsius in global temperatures average.

This figure of increase could lead to irreversible changes in our Earth, the biosphere and the oceans.

Global climate in 2011 was influenced by the event “La Niña” that was developed in the tropical Pacific in the second half of 2010 and continued until May 2011.

This year was one of the strongest in the last 60 years and its course is closely associated with drought in East Africa, Islands in the central equatorial Pacific and South of United States and the floods in southern and Eastern Africa, Australia and Asia South.

Minimum seasonal Arctic sea ice was achieved on 9 September, and was estimated at 4.33 million square kilometres. It’s a figure that is 35% below the average of frozen sea measured in the period from 1979 to 2000 and only somewhat higher than the 2007 record.

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Employers of private clinics calls a “comprehensive review” of the health system

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BARCELONA, 29 (EUROPA PRESS)

La Catalana grouping of health establishments (Aces), which represents to 121 private centres, has defended this Tuesday in Barcelona make a “global health system review”, after say this is unsustainable and precise reforms urgent.

In the presentation of a study on the Catalan onstage post-crisis, health director-general of Aces, Lluís Monset, has argued that there are multiple models of reform, although it has been pointed out that all of them should be in line with transferring the State’s responsibilities in the field of health care to the people.

Previously, the conseller Boi Ruiz has embraced the idea of reform at the Spanish level in which citizens should hire a compulsory minimum insurance from a certain level of income, a proposal that Monset has considered that “it opens a door that has not had never opened”, while has applauded the courage of the Minister to make the proposal.

The President of Aces, Cristina Contel, has said that it should be defined either a measure so that “the citizen must have the possibility to choose,” but it has been favourable to the existence of a minimum insurance policy covering risk catastrophic.

All of this without prejudice to other ideas that it has been considered more feasible as the extension to the whole society of model Muface which governs in the case of officials, and in any case without allowing public amenities to make activity private.

Aces, which has submitted a report which finds that cuts that has implemented the Generalitat in health are the result of growth of the public sector over the generation of wealth, has emphasized the need for reform, because the current model is”the ICU”, pointed out Contel.

Mandatory policy

The expert on issues of health Francesc Moreu has seeded the idea advanced by the counsellor about the possibility of establishing a mandatory policy – Ruiz he has cited him as ideologue-, and stated that made observation is based on the need to move from the current state of the welfare to the current welfare society.

Moreu has explained that the proposed model is based on other European models in which the present public insurance would be divided into two parts: a policy of catastrophic risks that would be charge the State as so far–to cover diseases serious as transplants and cancers- and the other “complementary risk” for services contracted less complex.

The second policy would be bound posts from a certain level of income, to ensure that no citizen should be neglected, while the expert insisted that launched idea was not going beyond that, among other things, the definition of what is meant by catastrophic risks or the minimum income level would vary the outcome significantly.

“No we can continue to take specific actions without tackling the heart of the matter”, expressed Moreu, after warning that the copay would be a bad solution because it does not value the efforts of the citizens.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips