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		<title>GE Healthcare sets global challenge to “Get Fit” with Twitter-based competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GE Healthcare launched a global competition on Twitter to raise public awareness about cancer prevention and healthy living. For the next two months, the “Get Fit” campaign will encourage people from all over the world to tweet about their own health and fitness activities that have been shown to reduce the likelihood of developing cancer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evacuees describe grim situation in Misrata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab uprising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misrata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Crescent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an IRIN report on 18 April, civilians evacuated from the war-ravaged western Libyan city of Misrata have described the humanitarian situation there as grim, saying families are barely able to find enough food and water, that medical treatment is hard to come by, and corpses are lying in the streets. &#8220;We could hear the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSF organises second evacuation of war wounded from Libya conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misrata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war wounded]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zarzis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) evacuated 99 people, including 64 war-wounded and 35 accompanying persons, by boat on Friday 15 April from Misrata to Zarzis, Tunisia. This operation took place two weeks after the first MSF evacuation by boat of 71 war-wounded by MSF. This time, the MSF team was able to assess the medical facilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO calls for immediate action to evacuate injured from Misurata</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evacuation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Misurata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[under fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After coming under siege and fire for 40 days, the city of Misurata, about 200 km east of Libya’s capital Tripoli, is facing a deteriorating health situation. This has put the lives of thousands of civilians at risk and as the fighting continues the humanitarian crisis is worsening the World Health Organisation (WHO) warns. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanitarian breakthrough as WFP ship docks at Misrata with food and medical supplies for 40,000 people trapped in fighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical supplies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misrata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world food programme; humanitarian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A World Food Programme (WFP) humanitarian vessel carrying life-saving food, medical supplies, doctors and other relief items has finally been able to reach Misrata port, opening up a new humanitarian lifeline to civilians trapped in the Libyan conflict. “This is a breakthrough for the UN humanitarian operation in Libya and allows us to reach tens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Health Day &#8211; Combat Drug Resistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antiretroviral medicines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Combat Drug Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr Hussein Gezairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multidrug-resistant tuberculosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is World Health Day, a day celebrated around the world each year to mark the founding of the World Health Organisation, more than 60 years ago. Each year the WHO chooses an issue on which to focus – and this year it is “Combat Drug Resistance”. The WHO warns that drug resistance is becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medecins Sans Frontieres evacuates patients from Libya conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) evacuated 71 patients by boat on Sunday 3 April from the Libyan city of Misrata, where ongoing violence has overwhelmed medical facilities with the injured. “We managed to dock at Misrata on Sunday afternoon, despite intense fighting in the city over the past few days” said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO calls for contributions on draft guidelines for &#8216;International Recruitment of Health Personnel&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.middleeasthealthmag.com/wordpress/archives/213</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[draft guidelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health personnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international recruitment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization (WHO) is pleased to announce the launch of a web-based public hearing from 21 March to 17 April 2011 on the draft guidelines for monitoring the implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (&#8220;the Guidelines&#8221;). WHO invites you to contribute to this public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO EMRO issues statement on Libya crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.middleeasthealthmag.com/wordpress/archives/209</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libya crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libya health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO EMRO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The WHO calls upon all governments, civil society and individuals to participate in the relief efforts to support people in Libya The World Health Organization, through its Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, continues its efforts to provide humanitarian relief and health support to people affected by the current intensifying events in a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHCC&#8217;s Dr Ayesha Abdullah Receives L’Officiel Arab Woman of The Year Award</title>
		<link>http://www.middleeasthealthmag.com/wordpress/archives/197</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayesha Abdullah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DHCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dubai healthcare City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L’Officiel Arab Woman of the Year]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Ayesha Abdullah, Managing Director of TECOM Investments’ Sciences Cluster which overseas Dubai Healthcare City has been honoured with the L’Officiel Arab Woman of the Year Award 2010 in the ‘Medicine’ category. The L’Officiel Arab Woman of the Year award recognises the achievements of inspirational women operating in different domains including medicine, business, arts, fashion, [...]]]></description>
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