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Prime Minister approves SCMC’s 2009 plan

Aug 26, 2008 - 5:13:46 AM
SANA’A, Aug. 23 (Saba) - Chaired by Prime Minister Ali Mujawar, the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood (SCMC) approved in its meeting held on Saturday the action plan of the council for 2009


YEMEN: Ministry issues warning on maize smut

Aug 19, 2008 - 2:28:15 AM
The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI) has warned farmers about a fungus known as "maize smut" and asked them to use seeds that do not contain the fungus. The warning comes as the maize cultivation season gets under way.


Mysterious disease inherited throughout generations in a Yemeni village

Aug 12, 2008 - 7:28:47 AM
Patients’ groans are commonly heard when moving anywhere in Bait Murad area, especially in the al-Qainiah village, for dozens of people continue to be threatened by a vague hereditary disease.


New program to combat infectious diseases in Yemen

Aug 5, 2008 - 7:12:29 AM
To reduce the rate of infection by Onchocerciasis (Sowda) disease to less than 5 percent until the elimination of the disease is reached, the Onchocerciasis Control Program recently arranged a training course for around 30 of the program’s volunteers in Khamis Bani Sa’d district, Al-Mahweet governorate.


Urgent need to increase breastfeeding in the Middle East

Aug 5, 2008 - 1:51:55 AM
At least YR 1.1 billion is annually spent on breast-milk substitutes when the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding (0-6 months) in Yemen fell from 18 percent in 1997 to 12 percent in 2003, according to a presentation showed at a press conference held at the UNICEF office in Sana’a, to mark World Breastfeeding Week, taking place 1-7 August.


Mediating the nuclear impasse

Jul 22, 2008 - 3:56:45 AM
Iran's insistence on enriching uranium in defiance of three UN Security Council resolutions, combined with a bevy of antagonistic threats aimed at Israel's existence has created an explosive recipe that may well precipitate a horrifying regional conflagration.


Drugs threaten Yemen First drug addicts’ sanatorium in Yemen

Jul 22, 2008 - 3:29:37 AM
Life Makers Organization, a non government organization (NGO), has revealed a project to establishing the first sanatorium to treat drug addicts in Yemen. “During the last months, we worked to prepare a study for establishing such sanatorium for drug addicts. We also aimed to train a group of specialists in Egypt to be well skilled in dealing with addicts.


Critical numbers of Yemenis are suffering from cancer

Jul 22, 2008 - 3:06:15 AM
To be aged 46 or over means that you are more susceptible to cancer than other age groups, says a new local study which calls upon all people in this age-group to avoid cancer by taking routine examinations.


Medecins Sans Frontieres damns the refugee crisis

Jul 8, 2008 - 4:15:33 AM
The high influx of refugees and migrants poses a major challenge for Yemen. To date, the humanitarian response to those arriving at the shore as well as to the refugees already in Yemen has been far from adequate, said a new report issued by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)...


Raising AIDS awareness

Jul 8, 2008 - 4:08:02 AM
Media outlets and journalists in Sana'a have participated in a three-day training workshop on HIV/AIDS, held in June 28 to 30. The workshop was conducted by Progressio and the Interaction in Development Foundation (IDF) in cooperation with the Yemen Journalists Syndicate for people working in print and electronic media.


Five health practices can save babies' and mothers' lives

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:15:49 AM
A training workshop was conducted by the Basic Health Services Project (BHS) during June 22-26 to train more than 20 doctors and midwives on the best five health practices that can help Yemeni women and their babies to survive childbirth and reduce their high mortality rates. The workshop included participants from five different governorates: Aden, Lahjj, Ibb, Taiz, and Amran.


Yemeni women give birth to more Low Birth Weight babies

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:11:24 AM
Low Birth Weight (LBW) babies are still a problem in Yemen, great enough to trigger public health action, a new study has said. Human and medical costs are extremely high to save LWB infants and maintain their health in the subsequent years.


High costs of treatment adds to Yemeni cancer patients’ suffering

Jun 17, 2008 - 12:45:11 AM
A new local study has disclosed that every Yemeni cancer patient spends an average of YR 350,000 on their treatment, even though most of them are very poor. The study was conducted on 992 cancer patients in different Sana’a hospitals over a period of one year.


MTN tent receives more voluntary blood donors

Jun 17, 2008 - 12:30:54 AM
Long before the MTN (Mobile Telephone Networks) tent opened, throngs of people queued outside to stake their lives on people they will never meet – people who donate their blood freely and unrewarded.


New water laboratory opened at Technical Industrial Institute in Dahban

Jun 10, 2008 - 11:57:03 PM
A completely new water laboratory at the Technical Industrial Institute Dahbhan was officially inaugurated by the Ministers of Technical Education and Vocational Training and Water and Environment, on Wednesday, June 4.


New Yemeni stroke study reveals the toll on young lives

Jun 10, 2008 - 12:02:53 AM
A new Yemeni study shows that 3 percent of Yemeni stroke patients are people between 15 and 45 years old. Strokes are a major public health problem since they are one of the leading causes of long-term disability. It is a disease that affects the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain.


Yemeni woman is honored as the 2008 InterAction Humanitarian of the year

Jun 10, 2008 - 12:00:21 AM
For around 40 years, she has worked to save women’s’ lives in the most isolated regions of Yemen. Now she has been recognized by being named Humanitarian of the year by InterAction, an organization that represents more than 150 development and humanitarian NGOs worldwide.


When the cure becomes the killer

Jun 3, 2008 - 2:35:35 PM
Three year-old Hanin was born with cataracts in both eyes. Her parents did not realize this until she was three months old. The little girl underwent routine cataracts-removal surgery at a local hospital when she was six months old. The operation was deemed a success.


Women, be warned: Oral contraceptive pills increase risks of being affected with breast cancer

May 27, 2008 - 12:43:49 AM
Simply being a woman is the main risk factor for developing breast cancer. However, women are nine times more prone to develop breast cancer by using oral contraceptive pills than other contraception methods, a new local study found.


Yemen to celebrate Arbor Day through efforts of SYFF

May 27, 2008 - 12:37:37 AM
As with many other countries around the world, Yemen will celebrate the Arbor Day in June 5 as a tribute to a history that was built largely on trees and preventing their destruction.


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