Health

To export ivory and rubber from what is now Cameroon, traders created routes that enabled the first cases of HIV to reach large population centers. This photograph is from a collection by Alice Seeley Harris and her husband, John Harris, who were missionaries in the Belgian Congo at the turn of the century. They documented the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by Belgian King Leopold II's regime.  Anti-Slavery International/PANOS

Without “The Scramble for Africa,” it’s hard to see how HIV could have made it out of southeastern Cameroon to eventually kill tens of millions of people, according to a new book by Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin.

By Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin - The Washington Post - February 27, 2012

Mysterious epidemic Killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and the Pacific coast of Central America.
Agriculture Chemicals seems to be a factor in kidney disease,kidney damage and death. Field workers seem to be most affected.

(ARTICLE FOUND HERE) HUFF POST WORLD February 13,2012 by Filadelfo Aleman and Michael Weissenstein

submitted by Janine Rees

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2011 FIRST QUARTER LIVELIHOODS ANALYSIS FORUM (LAF)ORGANISED BYSOUTH SUDAN CENTRE FOR CENSUS, STATISTICS AND EVALUATION (SSCCSE),WITH TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE SUDAN INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITYPROGRAMME: FOOD SECURITY INFORMATION FOR ACTION PROGRAMMEHELD FROM 2ND –4TH, MARCH 2011, IN YEI, CENTRAL EQUATORIA STATE(12 page .PDF file)

http://www.southsudan-climis.org/attachements/Final_Proceedings_of_LAF_Yei_March_2011.pdf

 WHO Sudan health maps  <http://www.who.int/hac/crises/sdn/maps/en/>

Health data and GIS in Sudan <http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=201181>

FAR Sudan <http://farsudan.org/foodsecurityc9.php>