African Clinic Struggles to Help Children with AIDS December 29, 2005 • In Africa, almost a half-million children died last year of AIDS. Hundreds of thousands of others are in need of treatment. But very few get it because the barriers to treating children are even greater than those for adults. African Clinic Struggles to Help Children with AIDS Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5074228/5074595" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Abstinence, Condom Use at Odds in Overseas AIDS Fight December 29, 2005 • AIDS activists are charging that groups promoting abstinence are undermining condom distribution in U.S.-funded programs overseas. They blame a stronger emphasis on abstinence in President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, while the administration says there's been no shift in its focus. Abstinence, Condom Use at Odds in Overseas AIDS Fight Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5074823/5074824" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health Officials Keep Close Watch on Bird Flu Sifting Through Official Speak on Bird Flu December 28, 2005 • The most recent wave of bird flu began spreading across Asia in 2003. So why is the U.S. government sounding the alarm now? Risk experts assess what's true, and what's misleading, in the Bush administration's statements on the risk of a flu pandemic. Sifting Through Official Speak on Bird Flu Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5071792/5071834" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health Officials Keep Close Watch on Bird Flu Mortalities from a Flu Pandemic Hard to Predict December 16, 2005 • When public officials talk about bird flu, they often quote a scary statistic: Half of all the people known to be infected have died. But scientists say that figure has little bearing on what's likely to happen in an actual pandemic. Mortalities from a Flu Pandemic Hard to Predict Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5056105/5056157" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Treating Disease in the Developing World December 16, 2005 • Two new malaria drugs hit the market next year. That's not big news here in the United States, but malaria kills more than 1 million people each year worldwide. Other diseases such as hookworm sicken victims around the world, but are rarely a topic of concern here. Treating Disease in the Developing World Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5058325/5058326" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Health Care The Technology and Ethics of Face Transplants December 9, 2005 • A French woman says she is feeling well after doctors transplanted the mouth, lips and chin of a brain-dead organ donor onto her face last month. Physicians performed the procedure to change her appearance -- rather than save her life -- raising ethical and technical questions about how and when such a transplant should be done. The Technology and Ethics of Face Transplants Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5046505/5046506" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Beyond Kyoto China Resists Mounting Pressure to Cut Emissions December 8, 2005 • As the Montreal conference on climate change winds down, the participants are focusing increasingly on China, where emissions of greenhouse gases are surging. Chinese officials and industrialists are resisting pressure to limit emissions, saying China has a right to catch up with wealthy countries. China Resists Mounting Pressure to Cut Emissions Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5044682/5044683" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health Filtering Provides Inexpensive Way to Clean Water December 7, 2005 • Humanitarian groups are finding cheaper ways -- namely, filtering systems -- to clean up contaminated drinking water in developing nations. That could greatly reduce diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites among the billion people worldwide who drink unsafe water. Filtering Provides Inexpensive Way to Clean Water Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5043050/5043051" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health Psychological Issues Surrounding Organ Transplants December 5, 2005 • Last week, the world received news of the first partial face transplant. The operation was performed in France to a woman whose face had been severely disfigured after being mauled by a dog. Dr. Thomas Wise, chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Inova Fairfax Hospital talks about emotional issues surrounding such operations. Psychological Issues Surrounding Organ Transplants Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5039540/5039541" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health Officials Keep Close Watch on Bird Flu Vaccine Production May Fail in Flu Pandemic December 5, 2005 • The current method of vaccine production, which requires the incubation of flu virus in chicken eggs, may not be up to the task of protecting people from a new strain of deadly flu. Vaccine Production May Fail in Flu Pandemic Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5036908/5038818" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World Aids Day and a Call for Widespread Testing December 1, 2005 • On this World Aids Day, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke explains why widespread testing is the best strategy for fighting the disease. World Aids Day and a Call for Widespread Testing Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5034568/5034569" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Success Seen Treating AIDS in Haiti December 1, 2005 • A study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that nearly 90 percent of adults and adolescents treated for AIDS in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince were alive after a year of triple-drug treatment, compared to only 30 percent before treatment was available. Success Seen Treating AIDS in Haiti Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5033837/5033838" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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AIDS Remains a Leading Killer in South Africa December 1, 2005 • With the world's highest number of AIDS cases, South Africa is an example of the disease's devastating hold in some parts of the world. AIDS is not only the leading killer of adults in South Africa, but also of younger children. AIDS Remains a Leading Killer in South Africa Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5033840/5033841" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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South African Bishop Opposes Vatican's Ban on Condoms November 30, 2005 • A Catholic bishop in South Africa has become a leading opponent of the church's ban on the use of condoms. Bishop Kevin Dowling presides over Rustenburg, an impoverished mining town that has been ravaged by HIV/ AIDS. With so much suffering caused by the virus, Dowling considers the Vatican's ban morally unacceptable. South African Bishop Opposes Vatican's Ban on Condoms Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5032190/5032191" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health New CPR Guidelines Stress More Reps November 29, 2005 • The American Heart Association issues new CPR guidelines for the first time in five years. The new recommendations stress more chest pumping, less mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and generally making it easier for bystanders to help in an emergency. New CPR Guidelines Stress More Reps Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5031237/5031238" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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