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Articles Tetanus
Tetanus is a very serious disease which makes a person’s muscles contract and become very stiff. It is very difficult to treat and over half of the adults who catch tetanus will die.
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Articles The Knotty Problem of the Haunted Wells
In Footsteps No.12 we reported that people living near Mengo Hospital in Uganda preferred to drink dirty river water instead of the clean water offered to them because of their fear of spirits.
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Articles The Mukombe
A useful idea sent in by Andrew Maclean, WaterAid, Rukungiri, Uganda.
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Articles Organising for immunization
Essentials for an effective immunization plan
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Articles Understanding Immunization
by Dr Tom Crusz. Years ago, smallpox was a dreaded disease which killed huge numbers of people all over the world. No treatment could be found. People who survived the disease did not catch smallpox again. They had become ‘immune’. Cows also suffered from a form of smallpox called cowpox. An English Doctor, Edward Jenner noticed that people who caught cowpox did not catch smallpox.
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Articles Growing Walls
This is an interesting and very practical idea developed by Gösta Nilsson, the Director of Sanitas in Botswana. He has developed a container gardening system based on walls with built-in growing boxes, made of hollow concrete blocks. The blocks are made using a simple, hand-operated block-making machine. With such a machine, two persons can make 100 blocks a day from a mix of 1 part cement and 4 parts sand. This is the size block which is used at Sanitas, but blocks of similar size would be ...
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Bible studies Bible study: Our stewardship of the environment
Our stewardship of the environment by Suleiman Jakonda of RURCON, Nigeria. Read Genesis 1:26-31. God created all things and there was perfect harmony between all creation and God. But as we read in Genesis 3:14-19, the fall brought about sin and separation from God for both mankind and creation - breaking the perfect harmony that had existed.
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Articles Community Based Health Care: Who is in control?
by Keith Wright. The idea of having community based activities has become very fashionable in development work and especially in primary health care. The term community based was originally used to try to describe health development work that happens in a community far away from a health unit. Up to that time the services of a clinic or a mobile clinic were the closest way in which health care came to the homes of people. The clinics were organised by the health service and carried out their ...
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Articles How to control soil erosion
How to protect soil from rain damage and improve soil fertility
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Articles Soil and water conservation and the community
by Will Critchley and Olivia Graham. Soil erosion - the removal of good soil by wind or water - is a growing problem world-wide. As the world population increases, more pressure is put on land to produce food, fuel and building materials. Trees are removed to grow more crops. Often land is no longer left to rest between cropping. With the removal of trees and forests, there is a direct effect on water supply. Less rainwater is able to soak into the soil and, in some places, wells and springs ...
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