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...because of - all the obstacles, the American doctors relish any small victory that validates their presence. Annu Goel, who is working in Lesotho with her husband, writes about a six-year-old boy who was brought to her at the most advanced stage of AIDS. "He was malnourished, had pneumonia, a big belly - he looked sick," she writes. "But mainly, what stands out is that he is sad. He is ALWAYS sad. One of the doctors here said she did not have a good feeling that he will make it. He has had side effects...
...DIED. Tamara Dobson, 59, Amazonian model-actress who created one of the blaxploitation genre's most memorable women-the Corvette-driving, martial-arts-loving title character in the film Cleopatra Jones; of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis; in Baltimore, Md. With her flashy style-huge Afro, big hats, leather-trimmed fur coats-Cleopatra was, in the words of the drug traffickers she battled, "10 miles of bad road." Before her career ebbed in the '80s, the 6-ft. 2-in. Dobson went on to appear in other films of the genre, notably the women-in-prison film Chained Heat...
...children. Celebrities don't host concerts to fight diarrhea. Of 29 child-health specialists at major international development agencies surveyed by the Rotavirus Vaccine Program - a charity based in Seattle, Washington - 40% named aids, tuberculosis and malaria as the three greatest childhood killers. In reality, the top three are pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. "This problem isn't getting the attention it deserves," says Wandee Varavithya, a doctor who has treated diarrheal diseases for nearly 40 years in Thailand. That needs to change. Most cases of diarrhea can be traced to food or water tainted by 100 or so intestinal bugs...
...intestine's lining and significantly reduce the duration of diarrhea episodes as well as the risk of recurrence. At ICDDR's field research center southeast of Dhaka, children who were given a 10-day course of zinc tablets after developing diarrhea had 30% fewer relapses, and 20% fewer developed pneumonia, reducing overall deaths by 50%. The cost of a course of zinc: about 25?. With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, an ICDDR program now aims to provide zinc tablets to every child under 5 in Bangladesh. Vaccines also...
DIED. Tamara Dobson, 59, Amazonian model-actress who created one of the blaxploitation genre's most memorable women--the Corvette-driving, martial-arts-loving title character in the film Cleopatra Jones; of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis; in Baltimore, Md. With her flashy style--huge Afro, big hats, leather-trimmed fur coats--Cleopatra was, in the words of the drug traffickers she battled, "10 miles of bad road." Before her career ebbed in the '80s, the 6-ft. 2-in. Dobson went on to appear in other films of the genre, notably the women-in-prison film Chained Heat...