Word: cambodia
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...Cambodia, African-style.' That is how some Westerners describe Uganda today ... They contend that the government of President Apollo Milton Obote ... has caused the deaths of as many as 100,000 Ugandan civilians and brought another 150,000 to the brink of starvation in a ruthless campaign to wipe out guerrillas ... Said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Elliott Abrams during a congressional hearing ... 'Repeated reports of large-scale civilian massacres, forced starvation and impeded humanitarian relief operations indicate that Uganda has one of the most serious human rights problems in the world today' ... At one time known...
...strategy, unveiled last week, is long on stockpiles and vaccines, as if the President believes he can build levee walls high enough to keep a pandemic out of the U.S. He can't?and much of that money would be better spent on the ground in countries like Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, where bird flu has hit hardest. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has collected just $30 million of the $175 million it says is needed to control the disease in birds in Southeast Asia, though the World Bank's announcement last week that it will issue emergency...
...Thim laughs when you ask about the day in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge came to his village in Cambodia and put an end to his medical education and his freedom. He laughs about the nearly four years he endured in a forced-labor camp, the decade he spent working with tuberculosis patients in refugee camps along the Thailand-Cambodia border. He laughs about the 20-hr. days he put in getting the NGO he co-founded, the Cambodian Health Committee (CHC), off the ground--the only work that was harder than Khmer Rouge re-education. The one thing...
With his partner, Dr. Anne Goldfeld, a Harvard biomedical researcher, and American Brian Heidel, Sok formed the CHC on a shoestring in 1994, two years after he was repatriated to Cambodia from the refugee camps. From the start, their target was TB. The disease takes an estimated 2 million lives a year globally, and Cambodia has one of the highest rates in the world, 508 cases per 100,000 people. The tragedy of TB is that it can be cured with a six-to-eight-month series of daily antibiotics, but interrupted treatment can lead to the rise of multi...
...synergistic partnership. "Thim without Anne is just another local NGO leader struggling to start an organization," says Joel Charny, a former member of the CHC board. "Anne without Thim is a Harvard researcher without the connections to get things done." Today CHC is adapting its TB program for Cambodia's growing HIV problem and launching ambitious clinical trials, led by Goldfeld, that will study how to treat patients simultaneously suffering from both diseases. This is CHC at its best--harnessing grassroots programs to find answers to vital medical questions, which can then be used to help the very patients...