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What South Africa's Water Trial Can Teach Us About Health Care For All

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cholera Outbreak, South Africa, Swine Flu Outbreak, Constitutional Court, Profits, Profit, Swine Flu Pandemic, Water, Health, Swine Flu, Health Care Reform, Privatization, Cholera, Health Care, Politics News

Let's hope that the Constitutional Court and the U.S. court of public opinion come to the right conclusion and accept responsibility for essential services.

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I Live Here: My Story

Mia Kirshner | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Cholera, Mia Kirshner, Malawi, James MacKinnon, Africa, World News

I traveled to Malawi in 2005 to collect material for a chapter of I Live Here, an anthology about vanishing communities around the world. Tragically, the situation has deteriorated further since then.

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Zimbabwe Cholera Cases Reaching 100,000

Mail And Guardian | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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The cholera infection rate in Zimbabwe is nearing the 100 000 mark in Africa's worst outbreak in 15 years, aid agencies said on Tuesday. ...

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Zimbabwe's Poor Healthcare System Causing Humanitarian Crisis

NYCity News Service | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe Healthcare, Cholera Outbreak, Morgan Tsvangarai Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Foreign Affairs, Cholera Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Hiv, Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Zimbabwe Cholera, Zimbabwe Cholera Outbreak, HIV/AIDS, Morgan Tsvangarai, Cholera Epidemic, Humanitarian Crisis, Physicians for Human Rights, Cholera, HIV/AIDS Africa, Robert Mugabe, Health Care, Aids Zimbabwe, Advocacy, Healthcare Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, World News

The collapse of Zimbabwe's health system has created a humanitarian crisis where people are already suffering from a crippling hyperinflation and severe food, fuel and currency shortages.

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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe - Without the Crowds

Caroline Gluck | Posted 04.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Food, Cholera, Hunger, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Victoria Falls, Africa, Home News

The country's political crisis, hyperinflation and a cholera epidemic, has meant Zimbabwe has had a hard time selling itself as an ideal tourist destination.

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South Africa Cholera Fears Spread As Zimbabwe Refugees Evicted

Mail and Guardian | NOSIMILO NDLOVU | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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Humanitarian organisations assisting Zimbabwean refugees in Musina have warned that the closure of the showground -- a large open field near the bord...

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Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic Getting Worse

CNN | Nkepile Mabuse | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

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The outbreak -- one of the world's largest, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) -- is only getting worse, and could be a stepping-stone t...

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Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic Infects More Than 60,000 People: World Health Organization

WHO | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

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30 JANUARY 2009 | GENEVA -- Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, one of the world's largest ever recorded, is far from being brought under control. An enhance...

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As Obama Urges Action on Zimbabwe, Health Crisis Worsens

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Cholera Outbreak, Cholera, Obama, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Human Rights Violations, World Health Organization, Crisis, Hillary Clinton, ZImbabwe Crisis, Mugabe, James McGee, Barack Obama, South Africa, Health, World News

As hopeful rhetoric permeates US leadership, Zimbabwe's health crisis is taking a turn for the worse. The average life expectancy has plummeted from 62 in the early 1990s to 36 today.

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Life in a Time of Cholera: Crisis in Zimbabwe

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe Peace Project, Cholera Epidemic, Zanu-Pf, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Operation Clean Out the Filth, Who, Limpopo Province, Southern African Development Community, Harare, Movement for Democratic Change, Mdc, Cholera Zimbabwe, Vhembe District, Sadc, Cholera, African Union, World Health Organization, Physicians for Human Rights, Public Health, Robert Mugabe, Operation Murambatsvina, Beitbridge, Bulawayo, World News

When does denial of health care amount to a human rights violation? Zimbabwe is facing a humanitarian crisis. The cause of the crisis is a political one.

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Zimbabwe Cholera Death Toll Tops 3,000

Mail and Guardian | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

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A total of 3 028 people are now known to have died from the water-borne disease while 57 702 have been affected, the organisation said in its latest u...

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Zimbabwe's Ruined Healthcare System A 'Man-Made Disaster:' Report

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, United Nations, Aids, Icc, Cholera, Zanu-Pf, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Cholera, Humanitarian Aid, Physicians for Human Rights, World News

The healthcare crisis in Zimbabwe is a direct outcome of the malfeasance of the Robert Mugabe regime and the systematic violation of a wide range of human rights.

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Zimbabwe's Stubborn Middle Class Stays Through Cholera And Political Crisis

GlobalPost.com | Posted 01.13.2009 | World

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By GlobalPost's correspondent in Harare (who cannot be named because of Zimbabwe's press restrictions) There is plenty of gallows humor circulating...

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Zimbabwe: UK Caused Cholera

BBC NEWS | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

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The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe which has left hundreds dead was caused by the UK, an ally of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said. Informa...

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Time for global civil disobedience?: Five things to Advance the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Women, 60th Anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Obama, Zimbabwe, Poverty, Mugabe, NATO War on Terror, Darfur, World Bank, National Security, Cholera, Imf, Congo, Civil Disobedience, Sustainability, World News

Today is day of celebration for the progress we have made in the 60 years since the Declaration was signed. However, the litany of abuses does not afford us a second of self-congratulation.

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Pressure on Mugabe increases as Zimbabwe nears Breaking Point

Nora Coghlan | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

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Yesterday morning, President Bush lent his voice to a growing global call for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down.

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Time For Regime Change in Zimbabwe

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

In Zimbabwe, the lack of medicine, equipment, services, and staff in public hospitals is resulting in preventable deaths. There is no access to care for those who cannot afford private clinics.

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Zimbabwe Declares National Health Emergency

AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe declared a national emergency over a cholera epidemic and the collapse of its health care system, and state media re...

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Zimbabwe Cholera Toll Rises As Rainy Season Comes

AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 12.31.2008 | World

Read More: Cholera Outbreak, Zimbabwe, Cholera, Zimbabwe Poverty, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Cholera, Zimbabwe Cholera Outbreak, World News

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe health authorities say 425 people have died in a cholera outbreak and they are concerned it will worsen with the ons...

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